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As the Eurovision final opens in Malmö, contest organisers the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) are responsible for the most controversial edition of the competition ever.
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) salutes the groundbreaking decision of the Conference of University Rectors in Spain (CRUE) to “suspend collaboration agreements with Israeli universities and research centers that have not expressed a firm commitment to peace and compliance with international humanitarian law.”
Today, as the Olympic torch arrives in France, genocidal Israel is threatening to use “extreme force” against Palestinians in Rafah in the occupied Gaza Strip. More than 1.2 million displaced Palestinians, forced to flee Israel’s relentless bombing and siege in other areas of Gaza, are sheltering in Rafah in dire conditions. The entire Palestinian population of 2.3 million is facing starvation and possible famine, according to UN agencies.
Dear Olympic Torchbearers, Join calls for #CeasefireNow. Help stop Israel’s #GazaGenocide. Here’s how: Take one or more of the following actions to ensure Olympic values are upheld and to stand in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. Carry or wear: The Palestinian flag A call for “Ceasefire Now”
On this May Day, a historic day for the international labour movement commemorating workers' struggles for dignity and justice, Palestinian trade unions reiterate their call on trade unions across the world to build campaigns to end complicity with Israel’s genocidal 76-year-old regime of settler-colonialism and apartheid.
The heads of nine Israeli universities issued a statement making vile, dangerous and entirely unfounded accusations against the inspiring student mobilizations for divestment from Israeli genocide and apartheid. These same universities uphold Israel’s crimes against Palestinians. Here’s how they do it, and the reason why Palestinians call for a boycott of complicit Israeli universities:
The Nakba of 1948 marks a grave chapter in history, where approximately 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly expelled from their homes as part of a systematic campaign orchestrated by Zionist militias and later the Israeli army. This tragic event was not merely a singular moment of displacement but also the commencement of decades of oppression and denial of Palestinian rights. Since then, the Palestinian people have experienced the entrenchment of Israel’s regime of settler-colonialism, apartheid and military occupation of their land, which continues to this day.
Students and faculty across the world - from the US to Australia, from the UK to France - are rising up in what is rapidly escalating to a global mobilization focusing on Israel’s Western-enabled genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip and, crucially, on the complicity of institutions in it. It is an urgent wave of defiance and determination of a new generation that refuses a world of unhinged brutality, impunity, racism and oppression, whether targeting Palestinians or oppressed communities everywhere.
Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) is deeply inspired by the unprecedented wave of protest camps sprouting up on campuses across the US against Israel’s #GazaGenocide and university complicity. The selfless determination of students seeking to rid their campuses of ties to Israel’s regime of apartheid and genocide against millions of Palestinians, in the face of shameful repression by university administrations and police, gives us hope.
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) strongly condemns the shameful arrest of Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian by Israeli forces in occupied Jerusalem. Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian is an internationally renowned Palestinian feminist scholar whose work focuses on gendered violence and violence against children, in particular in the context of Israeli settler colonialism.