[press kit attached below] – Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, has become the first of any college or university in the U.S. to divest from companies on the grounds of their involvement in the Israeli occupation of Palestine.

Dear Charlatan, As members of Carleton faculty, we wish to express our support for the proposal put forward by Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA Carleton).

After their university’s president signed onto a denunciation of the Academic Boycott resolution passed by academics in the UK, students of Toronto’s Ryerson Universitycampaigned for a university-hosted debate on the issue.

Jerusalem [Ma'an] 1 February 2009 – Al-Quds University will cease all forms of academic cooperation with Israeli academic institutions soon, the school’s board determined on Sunday.

"In cooperation with all sides and under an accepted timetable," the university will phase out programs and cooperation, the university board said in a statement.

In an open letter penned by Omar Barghouti and Dr. Haidar Eid, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) strongly criticized South African author Nadine Gordimer for ignoring calls to boycott the Israeli-hosted International Writers’ Festival.

While having accepted the invitation to attend the festival, Banks realized that his presence would be an endorsement of Israel’s racist policies that he had been an outspoken critic of in the past.