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BDS Impact: Israel’s share of Horizon grants plunges by more than half!
This is a follow-up to PACBI’s 2025 statement “Israel “Disappearing to the Margins” of Horizon due to Academic Boycotts: Let’s Escalate the Exclusion from Below!”.
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Genocidal Israel’s cultural isolation grows as it ramps up manipulation and threats
From Eurovision to Hollywood and the Venice Biennale, artists and cultural workers increasingly reject links of complicity with genocidal Israel – which resorts to interference, intimidation and bribery as it continues its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
Palestinians Urge University of Ljubljana to Withdraw Support from Conference with Complicit Technion
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.
Boycott “Standing Together” for Whitewashing Israel’s Genocide and Apartheid
“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” — Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid leader
Greek institutions say NO to European Society of Criminology’s support for Israel’s crimes against Palestinians
Panteion University and the Athens municipality have withdrawn support from the EUROCRIM 2025 conference.
European Association of Archaeologists Is Welcoming Scholars Knowingly Participating in a War Crime
The EAA is welcoming scholars from Hebrew University, which is partially built on land illegally expropriated from Palestinians in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, to its annual meeting, Sept 2-6.
The European Society of Criminology Is Normalizing a War Crime
The European Society of Criminology (ESC) is normalizing a war crime, crimes against humanity and genocide.
BDS Prevents Normalization at Academic Conference in Morocco, Compels International Sociological Association to Suspend Israel
Statement of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and the Moroccan Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (MACBI) The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and the Moroccan Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (MACBI) salute the scholars (including Global Sociologists for Palestine “GS4P”), activists, and civil society groups whose collective action via withdrawals, pressure, and support for PACBI’s demands in institutional and popular spaces led to two major wins during the 5th ISA Forum of Sociology which took place at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco, between July 6–11, 2025. The first was the suspension of the Israel Sociological Society (ISS) from ISA, and the second was preventing the participation of the de facto representatives of Israeli universities complicit in Israel’s genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians.
PACBI Welcomes ISA Suspension of Complicit Israeli Sociological Society, Reiterates Palestinian Demands
PACBI welcomes the decision by the International Sociological Association (ISA) to suspend the Israeli Sociological Society (ISS) over its failure to condemn Israel’s ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in the illegally occupied Gaza Strip. We salute the scholars (including Global Sociologists for Palestine within ISA), activists, and civil society groups whose collective pressure and support for the PACBI demands made the ISA executive committee take this necessary yet extremely late measure of accountability, over 20 months into Israel’s genocide. However, suspending the ISS is insufficient for ensuring that ISA’s Forum in Morocco does not harm the struggle for Palestinian rights, nor the Moroccan and broader Arab struggle against normalization. Giving an unconditional platform to de facto representatives of complicit Israeli universities that have for decades been a pillar in Israel’s regime of settler-colonialism, apartheid, and military occupation further entrenches normalization, as defined by the Palestinian-led BDS movement. Israeli universities and institutions are today actively supporting the genocide, not just failing to condemn it or staying silent.
PACBI: ISA must exclude Israel and its complicit institutions from its 5th Forum or face a boycott
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), a founding member of the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition in Palestinian society that leads the global BDS movement, calls upon academics standing in solidarity with the inalienable rights of the Indigenous people of Palestine, to pressure the International Sociological Association (ISA) to cancel the participation of academics de facto representing Israeli institutions complicit in Israel’s settler-colonial and apartheid regime in the 5th ISA Forum of Sociology, scheduled to take place at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco, from July 6–11, 2025. This participation is a violation of the BDS movement’s academic boycott guidelines and the anti-normalization guidelines that apply to the Arab region.
Israel “Disappearing to the Margins” of Horizon due to Academic Boycotts: Let’s Escalate the Exclusion from Below!
After 20 months of Israel’s ongoing livestreamed genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, BDS pressure from the broad Palestine solidarity movement across European higher education is finally succeeding. In particular, academic boycott and divestment mobilizations by student and university staff have pushed Israel to the margins of the European Union (EU)’s Horizon research program–the world’s largest research program.
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Guitarist Jonny Greenwood has crossed our picket line twice during Israel's genocide in Gaza