South African UKZN cancels Monday’s Israeli lecture
By Daily News Reporter The University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) has cancelled a lecture on Monday by Israeli’s deputy ambassador to South Africa, Yaakov Finkelstein. The...
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Organizing Committee
Feras Abou-Galala, University of California, Riverside
Dunya Alwan, Birthright Unplugged
Anna Calcutt, New Yorkers Against the Cornell-Technion Partnership
Joe Catron, Al-Awda New York: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, International Solidarity Movement - Gaza Strip, Siege Busters Working Group
Read Joe Catron’s ”Gaza: Young Palestinians Lead a Global Movement”
Nada Elia, Antioch University, Seattle
Read Nada Elia’s “A turning point for the US solidarity movement”
Andrew Felluss, Music Producer/Artists Against Apartheid
Manzar Foroohar, California Polytechnic State University
Jess Ghannam, University of California, San Francisco
Sherna Berger Gluck, California State University, Long Beach
Salah D. Hassan, Michigan State University
Musa al-Hindi, Independent Scholar
Remi Kanazi, poet, writer, editor
Charlotte Kates, Community Organizer, Labor for Palestine, Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
David Klein, California State University, Northridge
Dennis Kortheuer, California State University, Long Beach
Michael Letwin, Co-Convener, New York City Labor Against the War; Former President, Association of Legal Aid Attorneys/UAW Local 2325; Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition-NY
David Lloyd, University of Southern California
Sunaina Maira, University of California, Davis
Edie Pistolesi, California State University, Northridge
Steven Salaita, Virginia Tech University
Fayyad Sbaihat, Carnegie Mellon University
Founding Members
Rabab Abdulhadi, San Francisco State University
Lara Deeb, Scripps College
Sondra Hale, University of California, Los Angeles
Marcy Newman
Read Marcy Newman’s “The Fallacy of Academic Freedom and the Academic Boycott of Israel”
Magid Shihade, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan
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10,000 Signatures for Palestinian Rights
*please circulate widely* Will you sign this petition and tell the Red Hot Chili Peppers to cancel their trip to Israel? http://chn.ge/IS8S2j We are excited...
An Open Letter from the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI)
On April 24, 2012, the New York Times transcended its usual subservience to Israel’s apartheid policies by publishing an ad from the “David Horowitz...
In Defense of UCLA Professor David Shorter and All Scholars Who Support the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
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