News type: In the News
Court Dismisses Major Claims Against American Studies Association
On Friday, in a partial victory for the American Studies Association (ASA), a district court in Washington D.C. dismissed plaintiffs’ ultra vires...
Eddie Izzard’s registration for Palestine Marathon this Friday sent back to him by organisers
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE British comedian Eddie Izzard cannot run for freedom this Friday if he entertains in Tel Aviv on Thursday, say Palestine...
BDS groups from the Spanish State and RESCOP (the Spanish Network Against the Occupation of Palestine) welcome Podemos’ recognition of the right to BDS as a legitimate exercise of the freedom of expression
On March 23, Pablo Bustinduy, Secretary of Foreign Relations of the Spanish leftist political party Podemos, and the Spokesperson of the Foreign...
The Jewish Voice at the Heart of the Boycott Israel Movement
Israel’s new travel ban forbidding entry for any foreign national who openly calls for a boycott of either Israel or the settlements has evoked a mix...
Honor the Palestinian Call for Academic Boycott: A Letter to Prof. James Anaya
Dear Professor S. James Anaya, I want to commend you for your invaluable work on Indigenous rights. As your scholarship and service as a UN...
FIFA delay on Israeli settlement decision fuels concern
Ramallah, occupied West Bank - Nearly six months after the FIFA Monitoring Committee Israel-Palestine was due to present its recommendations on...
First Ever Italian Student Council Approves Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions
On March 1, 2017, the Student Council of the University of Turin approved by wide majority (76%) a motion (text below) supporting the...
UK Academics support free speech on Israel
The spike in far-right antisemitic incidents on UK campuses that you report (UK universities urged to act over spate of antisemitic stickers and...
Israel and Palestine: Settler colonialism and academic freedom
In the last ten years, an old scholarly paradigm that was used for the historical analysis of European settler movements in various parts of the...
After appeal by leading writers, major US literary festival will proceed without Israeli government sponsorship
February 23, New York, NY—Human rights advocates welcome the decision by PEN America to hold PEN’s annual World Voices literary festival without...