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Statement of the Palestinian Sociological and Anthropological Association
National Associations Must Uphold Suspension of the Israeli Sociological Society at the International Sociological Association’s December 2025 Meeting of National Associations
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South African Medical Association Cuts Ties With Israeli Medical Association
The South African Medical Association (SAMA) has voted to end all ties with the deeply complicit Israeli Medical Association (IMA). SAMA further calls for the IMA to be suspended from the World Medical Association.
‘Ban the Boycott’ – An all too familiar refrain
Throughout the month of May, members of the Modern Language Association, the largest professional society of humanities scholars in the United States...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
If you’re willing to support a boycott of US academic conferences over Trump’s ban, why not BDS?
Over 6,000 academics across the world have announced that they will boycott any academic conference held in the US until Trump’s travel ban...
Academics support Eleonora Roldán Mendívil
Prof. Dr. Peter-André Alt, President of the Free University of Berlin Prof. Dr. Tanja Börzel, Director of the Otto-Suhr-Institut, Free University of...
Why was BDS beaten at the MLA conference?
THE DELEGATE Assembly of the Modern Language Association (MLA), a professional organization of professors of language and literature, last week voted...