News type: PACBI Statement

The American Historical Association (AHA) and the Modern Language Association (MLA) overwhelmingly voted in favor of a joint resolution condemning repression in the US and the silencing of academic dissent against the ongoing “US-sponsored Israeli genocide in Gaza,” which has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians.

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The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), a founding member of the largest coalition in Palestinian society that leads the global BDS movement, calls upon all conscientious Arab and international authors to withdraw from the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature 2026, which is scheduled to begin on January 21, 2026.

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PACBI calls for pressure on Live Nation Entertainment, including strategic, targeted boycotts, until it takes meaningful steps to account for its deep complicity in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza—especially by dropping its subsidiary Live Nation Israel that openly supports the genocidal Israeli military and artwashes apartheid.

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The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) condemns journalist and City University of New York faculty member Peter Beinart’s decision to speak at Tel Aviv University (TAU) today, particularly during Israel’s ongoing, live-streamed genocide of millions of Palestinians in Gaza.

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Once again, the Islamic Archaeology Conference is in violation of the BDS movement’s anti-normalization guidelines. Furthermore, it includes speakers from Israeli institutions illegally based on occupied Palestinian land.

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In response to growing demand from film workers, as well as BDS activists globally, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel lays out how BDS guidelines apply to complicit Israeli films and TV productions.

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The South African Medical Association (SAMA) has voted to end all ties with the deeply complicit Israeli Medical Association (IMA). SAMA further calls for the IMA to be suspended from the World Medical Association.

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We call on the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Mechanical Engineering to withdraw all support from the ICAMPP conference, co-organized together with the Technion, a deeply complicit Israeli technical institute.

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“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” — Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid leader

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Panteion University and the Athens municipality have withdrawn support from the EUROCRIM 2025 conference.

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