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Israel Systematically Blocks International Scholars From Reaching Palestine
“Palestinian Universities Demand Israel Respect Their Rights” By David Palumbo-Liu August 11, 2019 … It is precisely this lack of parallels that indicates the dramatically uneven situation for Palestinians — in terms not only of education, but all aspects of everyday life. When people try to shine a light on these conditions, they too are […]
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I chose not to participate in the whitewashing of Israel’s image
I Said No to a Netflix Series Audition Because I Support Palestinian Rights by David Clennon, Truthout [August 7, 2019 ] I have supported the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel since the 2014 Israeli War on Gaza. (That astonishing display of high- and low-tech cruelty, I believe, opened the eyes of many Americans.) The […]
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USACBI deplores Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley’s vote in favor of H.Res. 246, condemning BDS
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel deplores Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley’s vote in favor of H.Res. 246, which condemns the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement seeking to hold Israel accountable for its numerous violations of international law and the human rights of the Palestinian people. We are particularly disturbed that […]
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Why Americans Should Support BDS
Why Americans Should Support BDS Inspired by the civil rights and anti-apartheid movements, it calls for Palestinian liberation on terms of full equality with Israelis and categorically opposes all forms of racism, including anti-Semitism. By Omar Barghout on 7/29/2019 Last Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed a resolution, H.Res, 246, targeting the grassroots, global Boycott, […]
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‘Progressive’ votes on anti-BDS bill offer a political defense of the indefensible
‘Progressive’ votes on anti-BDS bill offer a political defense of the indefensible By David Lloyd on July 29, 2019 If it waddles like a duck, quacks like a duck, paddles like a duck, then probably it’s a duck. Or a good imitation of one. When self-described progressives like Ayanna Pressley and Ro Khanna walk and […]
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USACBI Open Letter to Israeli officials opposing Israel’s severe and unreasonable limitations on foreign nationals entering Palestinian universities
Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu Fax: +972-2-566-4838 pm_eng@pmo.gov.il Minister of Justice Ayelet Shaked Fax: +972-2-628-5438 mancal@justice.gov.il Minister of the Interior Aryeh Machluf Deri Fax: +972-2-670-3733 sar@moin.gov.il Minister of Education Naftali Bennett Chairman, Council for Higher Education of Israel Fax: +972-2-649-6011 nbenet@knesset.gov.il Ambassador David Melech Friedman U.S. Ambassador to Israel Fax: +972-2-624-2560 Prime Minister, Ministers, and Ambassador: […]
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USACBI STANDS IN SOLIDARITY WITH MAUNA A WĀKEA PROTECTORS
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel calls for an immediate halt to construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on the sacred site of Mauna a Wākea (aka Mauna Kea), and to the violence the state of Hawai‘i, the University of Hawai‘i, and the National Guard are directing towards those […]
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USACBI Condemns Israel Litmus Tests for Faculty Speech
It is no secret that campuses are the new battlefront in the war for public opinion on Palestine/Israel. Just how much so has become very clear recently at the University of Houston, in Texas. Texas is one of more than 20 states that have passed anti-BDS legislation. Although there are a few different versions of this legislation, in […]
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Open letter re Freie Universtí¤t’s decision to cancel Professor Lila Sharif’s lecture on Palestine
Dear Professor Dr. Peter-André Alt and Professor Dr. Gudrun Krí¤mer: As members of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI), we write to protest the Freie Universtí¤t“s recent decision to cancel Professor Lila Sharif“s lecture “Olive Insurrections: Palestinian Survival in a Vanishing Landscape.” This talk was scheduled to take place […]
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USACBI condemns Book Culture’s appalling statement re Palestinian human rights
Book Culture”s statement distancing itself from politics and books related to justice in Palestine because of pressure from the rabbis at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue (SWFS), which bills itself as “a beacon of progressive Jewish thought”, is an appalling development for a bookstore whose mission is “to represent as widely as we can the diverse […]
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