February | 2014

CSCRE Statement of Solidarity for ASA Boycott

News and Opinion | Ithaca College Posted on February 27, 2014

It is one of the greatest conundrums in the world that people who have been subjected to much oppression in history should themselves become powerful and oppressive at a different historical moment. The American Studies Association’s recent vote to boycott [...]

Israeli Rent-A-Crowd in NZ evidence of BDS success

News and Opinion | Scoop Posted on February 25, 2014

In a desperate attempt to stem the tsunami of international public support for boycott, divestment and sanctioning of Israel for its illegal activities in Palestine, an Israeli Rent-a-Crowd from a local evangelical church turned up to try to counter a [...]

Israel Apartheid Week in Gaza

News and Opinion | YouTube Posted on February 23, 2014

Heartbeat is a normalization project that violates BDS guidelines

PACBI Statements | Posted on February 23, 2014

The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and BOYCOTT! Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call from Within (BfW) wish to clarify that Heartbeat, a joint Palestinian-Israeli cultural project (organization) is, in its current form, a normalization [...]

Regarding the American Studies Association and boycotting Israeli academic institutions

News and Opinion | Student Life Posted on February 23, 2014

I risked imprisonment and death in order to study at Washington University. Last summer I was thrilled to learn that I had earned admission and a scholarship to the Brown School of Social Work. But I almost could not be [...]

Irish Academic Boycott Pledge

News and Opinion | Posted on February 20, 2014

On February 20th 2014, 138 Irish academics signed a pledge, organised by Academics for Palestine, to support an Academic Boycott of Israel until Palestinian rights are respected. The pledge reads as follows: “In response to the call from Palestinian civil society for [...]

The alternative is BDS

News and Opinion | Mondoweiss Posted on February 20, 2014

As BDS activists, we are no longer interested in the sterile opposition to normalization generated by the Oslo Accords, but rather in formulating the kind of response that could actually defeat multiple forms of Zionist oppression, i.e, occupation, ethnic cleansing, [...]