Advisory Board

Honorary Advisory Board Member, Desmond Mpilo Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town

Watch Desmond Tutu discussing the Israeli apartheid on Democracy Now!

Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Lawrence Davidson, Professor of History, West Chester University

Read Lawrence Davidson’s “Why The Academic Boycott Is Necessary” 

Bill Fletcher, Jr., Executive Editor, The Black Commentator and immediate past president of TransAfrica Forum

Watch Bill Fletcher on Al Jazeera discussing the BDS campaign

Glen Ford, Executive Editor, Black Agenda Report

Read Glen Ford’s “Boycott and Disinvest in Israel, in Solidarity and Self-Defense”

Mark Gonzales, Educator, Poet, Human Writes Project

Marilyn Hacker, poet

Edward S. Herman, Professor Emeritus of Finance at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Annemarie Jacir, Filmmaker, Philistine Films

Read Annemarie Jacir on the Cultural Boycott of Israel

J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Associate Professor of American Studies and Anthropology, Wesleyan University

Read J.Kēhaulani Kauanui’s “Educators of Conscience Call for an Academic Boycott of Israel”

Robin D. G. Kelley, Professor of History, University of Southern California

Bill Mullen, Professor of American Studies, Purdue University

Ilan Pappé, Chair in the Department of History, the University of Exeter and co-director of the Exeter Center for Ethno-Political Studies.

Read Ilan Pappé’s “Just Academic”

James Petras, Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York

Vijay Prashad, George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies, Trinity College

Jasbir Puar, Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University

Read Jasbir Puar’s “Israel’s Gay Propaganda War”

Adrienne Rich, poet, essayist, activist

Read Adrienne Rich’s “Why Support the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel?”

Michel Shehadeh, Executive Director, Arab Film Festival

Nikhil Pal Singh, Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History and Director of the Graduate Program in American Studies at New York University

Neferti Tadiar, Professor and Chair of Women’s Studies, Barnard College

Lisa Taraki, Associate Professor of Sociology, Birzeit University, Palestine and a founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel

Read Lisa Taraki’s “Critics of the AAUP Report”