February 20, 2012 8:01 am / no comments
The following statement will be distributed to the International Committee of the Red Cross, Israeli officials, and the US State Department urging immediate action for the freedom of Khader Adnan. Please sign on below or email khaderadnan@usacbi.org: We, the undersigned, write as concerned scholars and academics to demand the immediate release of Palestinian baker and [...]
February 13, 2012 10:45 am / no comments
The Electronic Intifada published the following op-ed, written by USACBI Delegation – and Advisory Board – members J. Kehaluani Kauanui, Robin D. G. Kelley, Bill V. Mullen, Nikhil Pal Singh and Neferti Tadiar, on February 13, 2012. We encourage you to distribute it widely. EI link: http://electronicintifada.net/content/educators-cant-stay-silent-about-israeli-apartheid/10928 Today the systematic dispossession of the Palestinian people continues [...]
January 28, 2012 11:50 pm / no comments
Five faculty from U.S. universities who recently completed a week-long visit to Occupied Palestine and Israel are calling on academic colleagues everywhere to support the United States Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI). The professors, J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Wesleyan University; Robin D. G. Kelley, University of California Los Angeles; Bill V. [...]
January 28, 2012 10:35 pm / no comments
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel recently organized a delegation of five scholar/activists to Palestine; the scholars who participated were Robin D. G. Kelley, J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Neferti Tadiar, Nikhil Pal Singh and Bill Mullen. Prior to the delegation, Kauanui served on our Advisory Board; following the delegation, Kelley, Tadiar, [...]
January 28, 2012 10:19 pm / no comments
Neferti X. M. Tadiar, Professor and Chair of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, is one of the scholars – alongside Bill Mullen, Robin D. G. Kelley, Nikhil Pal Singh and J. Kehaulani Kauanui – who formed USACBI’s recent delegation to Palestine. Her piece below, published first at FeministWire, highlights Palestine as a feminist [...]
January 28, 2012 10:11 pm / no comments
Purdue University professor Bill Mullen traveled to Palestine with a delegation of academics organized by the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel to find out about the obstacles facing Palestinian students and educators. Published first at Socialist Worker. AT 4:45 a.m. on the morning of August 2, 2009, the family of Miraym Al-Ghawi [...]
January 10, 2012 10:42 am / no comments
David Klein of USACBI appeared on Law and Disorder Radio on January 9, 2012. The full radio show can be livestreamed or downloaded at this link. Law and Disorder is co-hosted by Michael Ratner, Heidi Boghosian and Michael Steven Smith, and is a weekly independent radio show based at WBAI 99.5 in New York and [...]
January 7, 2012 8:40 am / no comments
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) is appalled by the attacks taking place against our colleague, and member of our Organizing Committee, Dr. David Klein of California State University – Northridge. Dr. Klein hosts an informative website (http://www.csun.edu/~vcmth00m/boycott.html) that provides extensive resources concerning the global movement for boycott, divestment [...]
December 29, 2011 2:38 am / no comments
The U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel is gravely concerned about Cornell University’s plans to collaborate with Israel’s Technion Israel Institute of Technology to build a joint campus on New York City’s Roosevelt Island, including the use of $100 million in public funds.[1] Israeli academic institutions provide the technological foundation for [...]
December 25, 2011 11:51 pm / no comments
The new issue of USACBI’s Bulletin is now available for download. Includes an editors’ note, news on study abroad campaigns, academic and cultural boycott, and more: December 26, 2011 – Issue No. 2 of the USACBI Bulletin Download in: HTML | PDF Download prior issue: HTML | PDF