Besieged Gaza, Occupied Palestine

28. January. 2014

 In mid December 2013, the American Studies Association endorsed an academic boycott of Israel   where 66 percent of the ASA membership voted  in favour of thisresolution following a referendum organized by the ASA National Council.

 In mid December 2013, the American Studies Association endorsed an academic boycott of Israel   where 66 percent of the ASA membership voted  in favour of thisresolution following a referendum organized by the ASA National Council.

Following Israel‘s 2008-09 massacre of more than 1400 Palestinians, including hundreds of children, in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip and its bloodbath against the Freedom Flotilla in May 2010, you, along with other prominent music bands and artists, cancelled [1] your scheduled performance in Tel Aviv.

The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) salutes the American Studies Association’s members (ASA) who voted to endorse the Association’s participation in a boycott of Israeli academic institutions on December 16^th  2013. In an election that attracted 1252 voters, the largest number of participants in such a referendum in the history of the organization, 66.05 percent of voters endorsed the resolution.