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.
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Pitzer College makes history once again, as the College Council votes by 71% for full institutional boycott of Israeli universities over their complicity in Israel's regime of military occupation, apartheid and now genocide, against millions of Palestinians.
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) welcomes news that Pitzer College has closed its study abroad program with Haifa University following years of campaigning. Pitzer College is the first US higher education institution to enact a significant measure of the academic boycott of Israel.
New research analyzing AXA’s financial holdings in Israeli banks has been conducted by the civil society organization, Ekō. It shows that the insurance giant divested $9.4 million dollars of shares from the Israel Discount Bank and Bank Leumi at the end of 2023. The data on AXA holdings extracted from Bloomberg Terminal shows that as of 15 February the AXA Group still owns shares of $2.6 millions in Bank Hapoalim.
Samsung Next, the innovation arm of the Korean technology giant, Samsung, is shutting down its Tel Aviv operations, yet another strong indicator of the dramatically declining confidence in the Israeli economy.
Israel is plausibly committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, as ruled by the International Court of Justice. International sporting bodies have a moral obligation to take all measures to prevent genocide, or risk being held criminally liable. Yet two of the world’s top cycling races are planning to allow Team Genocide to participate, helping Israel sportswash its gravest crimes.
As we mark the 48th anniversary of Land Day, we commemorate all of the Palestinians murdered in Israel’s #GazaGenocide against 2.3 million of our people in occupied Gaza. In more than 170 days of Israel’s genocidal war, over 33,000 Palestinians have been murdered, at least 13,000 of them were children.
Five and a half months into Israel’s #GazaGenocide against 2.3 million Palestinians, the UNSC today finally “demanded” an “immediate” and “lasting” ceasefire, obligating Israel to stop its genocide. Facing unprecedented isolation worldwide and opposition from a majority of voters in the US, the genocidal Biden administration abstained.
As we mark this International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (#IDERD) we commemorate all of the Palestinians murdered in Israel’s racist #GazaGenocide. Palestinians in Gaza have now endured 167 days of Israeli attacks, over 32,000 Palestinians have been murdered, at least 13,000 of them were children.