“Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Signatory to a Boycott of Israel?” The BDS Movement and the Return of McCarthyism
State and private attempts to silence and isolate public supporters of the Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions movement are eerily reminiscent of McCarthyist tactics to silence, destroy and intimidate political opponents. Full disclosure: The author of this piece was an active [...]
USACBI condemns Israeli attacks on Palestinian universities
The United States Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) condemns the recent Israeli closures of three Palestinian institutions of higher education, Al Quds University (Jerusalem), the Arab American University (Jenin), and Birzeit University. The Israeli military physically invaded [...]
False attribution of Jerusalem as Israeli capital scrubbed from World Expo 2015 web site
BDS Italy press release False attribution of Jerusalem as Israeli capital scrubbed from World Expo 2015 web site Following the press release by BDS Italy, the designation of Jerusalem as Israel‘s capital has been removed from the website for the [...]
Pt. 2. Why Anthropologists Must Boycott: Israeli Attacks on Academic Freedom
This is the second post in a series advocating that the AAA endorse an academic boycott against Israel. For more general information on BDS, see our first post. This past May, Palestinian students at Haifa University requested permission to hold [...]
Presbyterians Vote to Divest Holdings to Pressure Israel
DETROIT — After passionate debate over how best to help break the deadlock between Israel and the Palestinians, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted on Friday at its general convention to divest from three companies that it says supply Israel with [...]
Anthropologists Should Embrace BDS
In the 30 April edition of Anthropology News, the leadership of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) invited its members to “help the association decide on appropriate courses of action,” amid ongoing Israeli violations of Palestinian human rights. The call came after [...]