Category Archives: PACBI Statements

An Appeal to the South Korean EBS International Documentary Festival: Do Not Celebrate Israeli Colonialism, Ethnic Cleansing and Apartheid!

Concepts Posted on August 11, 2014

The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) is gravely alarmed that the 11th EBS (South Korea Educational Broadcasting System) International Documentary Festival taking place in Seoul between 25-31 August 2014, is to include a conference [...]

Israel bombs Islamic University and Schools in Gaza: BDS Now!

Posted on August 6, 2014

“Tomorrow there’s no school in Gaza, they don’t have any children left.” -- A new racist Israeli chant color:#333333;background:white">[1] mocking the more than four hundred Palestinian children murdered by Israel during its current massacre in Gaza [2] Occupied Palestine – [...]

Israeli universities deeply involved in Gaza massacre: Academic Boycott Now!

Posted on August 3, 2014

Israeli universities that have for decades played a key role in planning, implementing, justifying and whitewashing racist and colonial policies of the Israeli regime of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid, are once again exposing their complicity in Israel’s genocidal aggression against [...]

Academic Boycott Grows in May 2014

Posted on June 4, 2014

In 2012, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) called on its supporters world-wide to intensify all aspects of BDS, but to especially focus, whenever possible, on academic boycott. Specifically, we call on faculty and [...]

International Keynote speakers at two Israeli conferences withdraw in reaction to BDS calls!

Posted on June 3, 2014

The recent success of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in deterring leading academics from participating in Israeli conferences is a marked move forward towards removing academic respectability from Israeli institutions, and persuading more academics to refrain from collaborating [...]

PACBI Salutes Spain’s Growing Academic Boycott Movement

Posted on June 1, 2014

The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) salutes the “BDS Academic Movement for Palestine,” a state-wide campaign across Spain, for its principled solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom and justice. Through the tireless efforts [...]

Boycott YaLa-Young Leaders Group and Its Online Normalization Conferences

Posted on May 25, 2014

The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), a member of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) National Committee (BNC) in Palestine, wishes to clarify that the YaLa – Young Leaders Group is a normalization initiative [...]