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The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), a founding member of the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition in Palestinian society that leads the global BDS movement, calls upon academics standing in solidarity with the inalienable rights of the Indigenous people of Palestine, to pressure the International Sociological Association (ISA) to cancel the participation of academics de facto representing Israeli institutions complicit in Israel’s settler-colonial and apartheid regime in the 5th ISA Forum of Sociology, scheduled to take place at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco, from July 6–11, 2025. This participation is a violation of the BDS movement’s academic boycott guidelines and the anti-normalization guidelines that apply to the Arab region.

After 20 months of Israel’s ongoing livestreamed genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, BDS pressure from the broad Palestine solidarity movement across European higher education is finally succeeding. In particular, academic boycott and divestment mobilizations by student and university staff have pushed Israel to the margins of the European Union (EU)’s Horizon research program–the world’s largest research program.

Following outrage from archaeologists, WAC announced it would excludes a scholar from illegal Israeli settlement-based Ariel University from its WAC 10 congress. Palestinians call on WAC to institute an ethical policy to ensure no complicity in Israel’s grave crimes against Palestinians

The WAC 10 conference program includes a panel chair and presenter from illegal Israeli settlement-based Ariel University who is therefore knowingly participating in a war crime and should therefore be held accountable.

As an institution openly and deeply implicated in Israel’s genocide that is also destroying Palestinian life and heritage, Technion has no place in a symposium aimed at preserving cultural heritage.

TCD will divest from complicit companies, end collaborations with Israeli institutions and complicit universities, and commits to no contracts with complicit Israeli suppliers.

Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil is undoubtedly being targeted for his role in the campus encampment that galvanized a worldwide student movement responding to the Palestinian call to end complicity in Israel’s regime of genocide and apartheid.

Five trade unions representing staff at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) demand their institution sever ALL institutional and corporate ties with apartheid Israel.

The student-led and faculty-supported mobilizations to end Israel’s genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza and its underlying system of settler-colonial apartheid are making incredible strides that were unthinkable just a few months ago.

The conference centers the Israeli speakers as “experts” in the field of Islamic antiquities and sites and features primarily those who work for the deeply complicit Israel Antiquities Authority