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Video: How Now BDS? Media, Politics and Queer Activism

Adalah-NY sponsored this event, featuring Judith Butler, John Greyson and Jasbir Puar, as part of New York City’s Israeli Apartheid Week. This event was held on March 11 at Judson Memorial Church in Manhattan, as part of Israeli Apartheid Week

Posted in Boycott News, U.S. Academica, U.S. Cultural Workers, U.S. Organizing

Bay Area community members say “Drown Out Apartheid” at Israeli Philharmonic in San Francisco

Tour greeted with protests in six of seven U.S. cities FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 27 – Fifty members of the Bay Area human rights community protested the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra’s (IPO) performance at Davies Symphony Hall on Sunday evening, using

Posted in Boycott News, Cultural Boycott, U.S. Cultural Workers, U.S. Organizing

USACBI Appeal to Macy Gray: Don’t legitimize apartheid

Dear Macy Gray, You report on your Facebook page that you are receiving “a lot of letters from activists urging/begging me to boycott by NOT performing in protest of Apartheid against the Palestinians.” And you say that you “don’t know how my

Posted in Boycott, Boycott News, Cultural Boycott, U.S. Cultural Workers, U.S. Organizing, USACBI in the News

ASU students protest study abroad in Israel program

The following article was written by Arizona State University student Oday Shahin, and published in the State Press, ASU’s student newspaper. Study abroad program sends wrong message By Oday Shahin October 10, 2010 at 5:33 pm ASU’s Study Abroad Office announced

Posted in Boycott, Boycott News, Student Organizing, Study Abroad, U.S. Academica, U.S. Organizing

Tell Felix Da Housecat: Don’t Play Apartheid Israel!

We have learned that American artist, Felix Da Housecat, is scheduled to perform in Tel Aviv on December 12th, 2010. We have sent a letter asking him to join the BDS movement but we need your help in getting the

Posted in Boycott News, Cultural Boycott, U.S. Cultural Workers, U.S. Organizing, USACBI in the News

USACBI on Professor Lisa Taraki’s US Visit

The U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel [USACBI] is proud to host Professor Lisa Taraki during her tour of the United States. In addition to her academic work as a sociologist at Birzeit University in Palestine

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Propaganda and Israel/Palestine: The War is On

Poor CAMERA…so victimized, so lonely. Tell the President and Provost of Boston University you are alarmed that they are welcoming a group of apologists for Israeli war crimes!

Posted in Boycott, Boycott News, Divestment, U.S. Academica, U.S. Organizing, Why Boycott?!

Is boycotting Israel anti-Semitic?

Sherry Wolf, a member of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, responds to claims from supporters of Zionism that criticism of Israel–and in particular, the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions against it–is “anti-Semitic.” October 7, 2010 ISRAEL’S SUPPORTERS wield the

Posted in Boycott, Boycott News, U.S. Organizing, Why Boycott?!

Palestine boycott committee calls on US pension fund to divest from Israel

Press release, Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee, 5 October 2010 The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), on behalf of its constituent organizations and unions representing the majority of Palestinian civil society, calls upon the US non-profit

Posted in Boycott News, Divestment, Palestinian Organizing, U.S. Organizing

Lessons from the UC Berkeley Divestment Effort, Hillel on Campus

Posted on September 30 2010 by Cecilie Surasky under BDS , Educational Institutions. [Editor’s note: The Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s video report (above) on Israel-defense training for students made me think that now would be a good time to re-publish Lessons

Posted in Boycott News, Divestment, U.S. Academica, U.S. Organizing