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RMIT Announces It Has No Partnerships With Israeli Weapons Maker Elbit Systems

Following a year-long campaign led by students and BDS Australia, together with Palestine solidarity activists, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology confirms no longer has any partnerships with Israel’s largest private weapons company.

Academic Boycott
Military Embargo
Student solidarity
November 9, 2023
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Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)
In the News

University of Sydney Students’ Representative Council Votes to Support BDS

The Students’ Representative Council motion expresses "solidarity with the Palestinian people living under an Apartheid state" and supports the Palestinian call for BDS "to achieve freedom, justice and equality for Palestinians."

Academic Boycott
Student solidarity
August 15, 2023
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University of Sydney Students’ Representative Council
Blog

Durante la Copa Mundial Femenina, denuncia la complicidad de la FIFA y PUMA con el apartheid israelí

Actúa del 20 de julio al 20 de agosto para arrojar luz sobre los derechos de los palestinos y palestinas y la verdadera igualdad de género, y para denunciar la complicidad de la FIFA y PUMA en el apartheid israelí que oprime a todo el pueblo palestino, especialmente a las mujeres.

Tarjeta roja a Israel
July 20, 2023
In the News

Largest Palestinian Professors' Union Urges RMIT To End Partnership With Israeli Weapons Producer

The 6,000 members of the Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees (PFUUPE) "know that Elbit Systems markets its weapons around the world, including to other oppressive regimes, as 'battle-proven' and 'field-tested,' and that "they are the subjects of those tests."

Academic Boycott
Military Embargo
August 11, 2022
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Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees (PFUUPE)
Update

Boycott Sydney Festival!

PACBI salutes the artists who have withdrawn and congratulates human rights campaigners

Cultural Boycott
January 7, 2022
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Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)
Update

In Unprecedented Numbers, University Departments and Scholars Urge End To Israeli Apartheid

Statements in support of Palestinian rights, many advocating for BDS, have been endorsed by more than 350 academic departments, programs, centers, unions and societies and garnered nearly 24,000 signatures from scholars, researchers, students and university staff worldwide.

Academic Boycott
Student solidarity
Trade union solidarity
May 26, 2021
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Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)
Alison Bashford, History of Medicine Professor, urged to reject Israeli award over Israel's medical apartheid
In the News

220 Academics Urge History of Medicine Professor to Reject Israeli Award Over Israel's Medical Apartheid

The academics say the award ‘serves to legitimize and normalize Israel’s colonial violence and apartheid’ against Palestinians as Israel actively blocks the delivery of vaccines to millions of Palestinians.

Academic Boycott
February 25, 2021
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BDS Australia
Open Letter

#WeAreUnderApartheid: Exclude the complicit Jerusalem Film Festival from We Are One

Filmmakers, Palestinian rights groups and cultural organizations urge participating filmmakers to withdraw from We Are One

Cultural Boycott
May 29, 2020
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Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)
Update

Maritime Union of Australia - Sydney Branch Endorses Boycott HP Campaign

The MUA Sydney branch pledged to not buy HP products and called for a complete boycott of HP products and divestment from HP companies until they cancel all contracts that aid Israel’s violation of Palestinian rights.

Economic Boycott
Boycott HP
Trade union solidarity
November 22, 2019
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Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)
Update

A round-up of the #BoycottHP Global Week of Action, July 10-15

Groups worldwide participated in the #BoycottHP Global Week of Action, creatively asserting the demand that HP Inc and HPE end their complicity in Israel’s apartheid, military occupation and settler-colonialism against the Palestinian people

Economic Boycott
Boycott HP
Global BDS Week of Action Against HP
July 19, 2019
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Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)