PACBI‘s recent statement entitled "Intellectual Responsibility and the Voice of the Colonized [1]," which criticizes the research project that led to the publication of the book, The Power of Inclusive Exclusion: Anatomy of Israeli Rule in the Occupied Palestinian Territories [2], has stirred a healthy debate and mostly constructive discussion among various scholars. Some, however, have misinterpreted this statement and reached certain conclusions that are neither based on the text of the statement nor representative of PACBI‘s consistent positions.

Theater against arms trade leads to arrests and charges of falsification

Jennifer Koehmstedt [Daily Wildcat] 15 February 2010 - University of Arizona (UA) administrators are resisting a recommendation by UA students to terminate the university’s contract with the Motorola Corporation.

Students say the company is complicit in human rights violations because of contracts they have with the Israeli government, which is militarily occupying Palestinian lands.

The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) has recently encountered a number of projects that while intending to empower the colonized Palestinians, in essence end up undermining their will and choice of method of struggle for freedom, justice and self determination.

This piece was published as the PACBI column in the BRICUP Newsletter, February 2010

This piece was published as the PACBI column in the BRICUP Newsletter, February 2010