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US Churches Advance Effective Solidarity with Palestinian Freedom, Justice and Equality

The Presbyterian Church (USA) and the Unitarian Universalist General Assembly have both made powerful decisions advancing solidarity with Palestinian rights under international law within faith communities in the U.S.

July 3, 2016
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Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)
In the News

Training Activists in the Social Media War Against BDS

IDC in Herzliya spearheading effort to provide students with tools to defend Israel.

Right To Boycott
July 3, 2016
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LIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZI
Blog

Free speech and justice: Defending the rights of the BDS movement

In this op-ed first published in The Salon, BDS National Committee member Omar Barghouti argues that trying to silence BDS supporters, as New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has done, will not break their solidarity

Right To Boycott
June 30, 2016
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Omar Barghouti
PACBI Statement

UCLA Hillel partners with PR firm to fight BDS movement

A California Hillel chapter has partnered with a D.C.-linked public relations firm to fight the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, according to leaked emails obtained by Mondoweiss.

Academic Boycott
November 14, 2014
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Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)
In the News

SodaStream to Close Illegal Settlement Factory in Response To Growing Boycott Campaign

  • SodaStream to benefit from Israel’s displacement of Palestinians in Naqab
     
Economic Boycott
October 30, 2014
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Palestinian BDS National Committee
PACBI Statement

Hollywood, Israel and the New McCarthyism

The Israeli government and its lobby groups around the world have responded to the 2005 Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS), including the academic and cultural boycott, with well-oiled propaganda, across-the-board bullying and intense repression.  In the west, nothing short of a new wave of McCarthyism is setting in, except this time around the required blind loyalty is to apartheid Israel.

Cultural Boycott
October 9, 2014
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Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)
Open Letter

Jewish survivors and descendents of survivors of Nazi genocide unequivocally condemn the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza

As Jewish survivors and descendents of survivors of the Nazi genocide we unequivocally condemn the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza and the ongoing occupation and colonization of historic Palestine.

Economic Boycott
Cultural Boycott
Academic Boycott
August 8, 2014
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Internation Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN)
In the News

CSA Executive Committee Condemns Israel’s Attacks on Palestinian Universities

The Cultural Studies Association (CSA) Executive Committee strongly condemns the continuing attacks on Palestinian universities, colleges, and schools by the Israeli government, including most recently the June 2014 invasion of Birzeit University, and the August 2014 decimation of the Islamic University in Gaza City.

Economic Boycott
August 8, 2014
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The Cultural Studies Association
In the News

TAKE ACTION: Demand that UIUC Reinstate Dr. Steven Salaita NOW!

USPCN demands the immediate reinstatement of Palestinian American professor Dr. Steven Salaita, and calls on all its members, and people of conscience across the country and world, to again resist the violations of academic freedom that have become commonplace in the U.S. 

Academic Boycott
August 7, 2014
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US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN)
Open Letter

Over 100 Middle East Studies Scholars and Librarians Call for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions

The following letter calling on scholars and librarians within Middle East studies to boycott Israeli academic institutions was submitted in the name of the below signatories to Jadaliyya on 6 August 2014.

Academic Boycott
August 6, 2014
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Jadaliyya