Organizing Collective

 

Organizing Committee

Feras Abou-Galala, University of California, Riverside

Dunya Alwan, Birthright Unplugged

Joe Catron, Al-Awda New York: The Palestine Right to Return CoalitionInternational Solidarity MovementGaza StripSiege 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

Listen to Sherna Gluck interview Richard Falk on BDS

Salah D. Hassan, Michigan State University

Musa al-Hindi, Independent Scholar

Remi Kanazi, poet, writer, editor

Watch Remi Kanazi perform his poetry on GRIT TV

Charlotte Kates, Community Organizer, Labor for Palestine

David Klein, California State University, Northridge

Read David Klein’s “Support for Israel must stop”

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

Read David Lloyd’s “Protest takes nonviolent approach toward preserving intellectual freedom in Israel”

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

Read Sondra Hale’s “Critics of the AAUP Report”

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

Recent BDS News

Sign on: Scholars in Solidarity with Khader Adnan

Sign on: Scholars in Solidarity with Khader Adnan

 The following statement will be distributed to the International Committee of the Red Cross, Israeli officials, and the US State Department urging immediate action...

 
Palestine Diaries by Nikhil Pal Singh

Palestine Diaries by Nikhil Pal Singh

The following essay, by USACBI Delegation member Nikhil Pal Singh of NYU, was published in Jadaliyya on February 13, 2012. When I told the Israeli border official...

 
Purdue professor joins academic, cultural boycott of Israel

Purdue professor joins academic, cultural boycott of Israel

By Eric Weddle, JCOnline, February 11, 2012 The conflict between Palestine and Israel has continued for more than half a century and created division along political...

 
‘A level of racist violence I have never seen’: UCLA professor Robin D. G. Kelley on Palestine and the BDS movement

‘A level of racist violence I have never seen’: UCLA professor Robin D. G. Kelley on Palestine and the BDS movement

The following article and interview, by Alex Kane with USACBI Delegation member Robin D. G. Kelley of UCLA, was published in Mondoweiss on February 16, 2012. If...