Monthly Archives: November 2009

Dear Director of Music, Timothy Brown and members of the choir,We understand that you intend to tour Israel with the Choir of Clare College to performJ.S. Bach’s ‘Christmas Oratorio’ between 25th and 30th December this year and we areasking you [...]

1.The justification of the boycott of Israeli academic and cultural institutions is quite simple and quite clear: the victims of a sovereign brutality instantiated in racial-military domination have come to an overwhelming consensus, in the very shadow of the state [...]

According to the Jerusalem online newspaper Mynet, Hebrew University’s Student Union Chairperson, Ofer Raviv, recently recommended that a Separation Wall between the university’s Mount Scopus campus and the nearby Palestinian village of Issawiya be constructed.Hebrew University officials suggested that such [...]

Clare College Choir’s proposed tour to Israel and Palestine during the Christmas period has prompted angry protest letters from pro-Palestinian activists.The College Choir plans to visit Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa and Karmiel, performing J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, during their [...]

We are Arab students at the Israeli universities writing to you in support of the proposed academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions. We believe that the boycott is timely and hopefully will help in upholding moral values of fairness, justice [...]

PACBI issued an Open Letter on 29 October 2009 Urging the Executive Committee of the International Geographical Union (IGU) to relocate its upcoming regional conference (July 2010) out of Israel.  That demand has been rejected by the IGU Executive.  PACBI is now [...]