Monthly Archives: February 2012

Students Against Israeli Apartheid – Regina (SAIA) is pleased to announce that a motion was passed at the University of Regina Student Union AGM to support the Palestinian call for boycotts, divestments and sanctions (BDS) as a means of pressuring [...]

JERUSALEM — American musician Cat Power has canceled her show in Israel, joining a list of artists shunning the country over its conflict with the Palestinians. Charlyn Marie Marshall, better known by her stage name Cat Power, was to perform [...]

Last year, the London School of Economics (LSE) found itself mired in controversy over ties to the Gaddafi regime, one of a number of universities accused of complicity with human rights abuses through funding sources and research ties. Now new [...]

"We--the global 99%--shall overcome!" Omar Barghouti‘s Salute to UPenn BDS Conf., Feb. 2012 from Omar Barghouti on Vimeo.   Omar Barghouti | We — the global 99% — shall overcome! From The Daily Pennsylvanian February 3, 2012 http://thedp.com/index.php/article/2012/02/omar_barghouti_we_the_global_99_shall_overcome Boycott, Divestment [...]

  We are living in a moment of global change that requires new academic questions. For example, the so-called "Arab Spring" invites more complex understandings of East/West binaries, more nuanced analyses of the Arab and Islamic worlds, and more sophisticated [...]