October | 2012

BaBa ZuLa in Apartheid Israel? Not this Year.

News and Opinion | Refrain Playing Israel Posted on October 30, 2012

The famous Turkish alternative band Baba Zula will not play in Israel this November. The band removed Tel Aviv from their tour schedule and Auris Media posted that the concert is cancelled. Cassandra Wilson, Cat Power, and The [...]

CALL BY FORMER INTERNATIONAL ANTI-APARTHEID ACTIVISTS TO THE ANC ON BDS

News and Opinion | BDS South Africa Posted on October 30, 2012

The call below to South Africa‘s ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), was first circulated on the 19th of October 2012 and within a week was signed by over 150 former international anti-apartheid activists. It has the support of signatories from more than [...]

Why is a New York hospital being sacrificed for an Israel-backed science facility?

News and Opinion | Electronic Intifada Posted on October 27, 2012

Despite critical opposition from residents and their supporters, plans are proceeding unimpeded to build a multi-billion dollar campus linking an Israeli and an American university in New York City. The applied sciences university campus, Cornell NYC Tech, is to be located [...]

De-Osloization and the fight against Normalisation

News and Opinion | Posted on October 27, 2012

Dr Haidar Eid has termed the struggle for Palestinian liberation as opposed to normalisation with Israel as “The de-Osloizing of the Palestinian mind”. He described Mahmoud Sarsak’s stand against normalisation by refusing the joint hosting at Barcelona FC with former Israeli [...]

Tel Aviv U. to conduct archaeological digs with right wing group in East Jerusalem

News and Opinion | Alternative News Posted on October 26, 2012

Tel Aviv University’s Institute of Archaeology will be conducting archaeological digs in East Jerusalem’s Silwan neighbourhod and financed by the right-wing settlement group Elad. Silwan residents have been conducting a popular struggle against these digs, some of which are conducted [...]

Four of five speakers pull out of UNESCO conference honoring Israel’s Peres at University of Connecticut

News and Opinion | Electronic Intifada Posted on October 23, 2012

A “human rights” conference at the University of Connecticut was in disarray after almost all the speakers pulled out. The Hartford Courant reports today: Four of the five speakers scheduled to address a conference on human rights scheduled for [today] Tuesday at [...]

Interrogating Israel Studies in the Academy: A Call for Action

Action Alerts & Events, Toolkit | Posted on October 23, 2012

(Download PDF version) In May 2012, the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP) issued a briefing document, “Universities rebranding Israel’s image: Hasbara posts in Israel Studies threaten academic integrity.”[1] This important activist tool provides information and [...]