25 February 2010 - The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) is deeply disturbed by the inaccurate and inflammatory insinuations made by French Prime Minister, Francois Fillon, during his speech at the annual dinner of the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF), February 3, 2010.[1]
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25 February 2010 - The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) is deeply disturbed by the inaccurate and inflammatory insinuations made by French Prime Minister, Francois Fillon, during his speech at the annual dinner of the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF), February 3, 2010.[1]
Adri Nieuwhof [The Electronic Intifada] 19 February 2010 Despite Israel's oppressive tactics against it, the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement has marked additional victories with many institutional investors divesting from or blacklisting Israeli military contractor Elbit Systems. One of the largest Dutch pension funds told The Electronic Intifada today that it is selling off its shares in Elbit.
Jennifer Koehmstedt [Daily Wildcat] 15 February 2010 - University of Arizona (UA) administrators are resisting a recommendation by UA students to terminate the university’s contract with the Motorola Corporation. Students say the company is complicit in human rights violations because of contracts they have with the Israeli government, which is militarily occupying Palestinian lands.
Theater against arms trade leads to arrests and charges of falsification
PACBI‘s recent statement entitled "Intellectual Responsibility and the Voice of the Colonized [1]," which criticizes the research project that led to the publication of the book, The Power of Inclusive Exclusion: Anatomy of Israeli Rule in the Occupied Palestinian Territories [2], has stirred a healthy debate and mostly constructive discussion among various scholars. Some, however, have misinterpreted this statement and reached certain conclusions that are neither based on the text of the statement nor representative of PACBI‘s consistent positions.
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) has recently encountered a number of projects that while intending to empower the colonized Palestinians, in essence end up undermining their will and choice of method of struggle for freedom, justice and self determination.
This piece was published as the PACBI column in the BRICUP Newsletter, February 2010 Once again, the Britain-Israel Research and Academic Exchange Partnership (BIRAX) is in the news. Conceived and publicized in July 2008 as an official UK-Israel response to the academic boycott of
This piece was published as the PACBI column in the BRICUP Newsletter, February 2010 Once again, the Britain-Israel Research and Academic Exchange Partnership (BIRAX) is in the news. Conceived and publicized in July 2008 as an official UK-Israel response to the academic boycott of
In response to the recent decision by the Israeli government to upgrade the status of the so-called Ariel University Center of Samaria (AUCS) to a full university, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) reiterates its call for a boycott of AUCS and all other Israeli academic institutions due to their complicity in maintaining Israel‘s occupation, colonization and apartheid against the Palestinian people.