Palestinians thank the Disciples of Christ Church (with over 350,000 members in North America) for its overwhelming vote for meaningful solidarity with Palestinian rights and naming Israeli apartheid.
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Palestinians are calling on Imagine Dragons to skip their August 29 concert in apartheid Tel Aviv, due to take place on the ruins of Jarisha, an ethnically cleansed Palestinian village.
Calls are growing for Christina Aguilera to cancel her scheduled August 10 show in apartheid Israel. At her NYC Pride headline concert last month, fans and activists came together to urge Xtina to refuse to cross the Palestinian picket line: #XtinaDontGo!
The Israel lobby in the U.S. must be panicking. A few days ago, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal accurately described Israel as a “racist state,” and the lobby impulsively pushed Congress to pass an unusual statement, with the usual automatic majority, saying Israel “is not a racist or apartheid state.”
Letter sent to the American Anthropological Association Executive Board. The Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees (PFUUPE) applauds the decision of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) membership to uphold the Palestinian call for a boycott of complicit Israeli universities over their longstanding active complicity in Israel’s regime of settler-colonialism and apartheid against Indigenous Palestinians.
The American Anthropological Association (AAA), representing thousands of anthropologists and scholars, has passed a historic resolution in support of Palestinian rights and freedom, pledging to boycott Israeli academic institutions that are complicit in maintaining Israel’s oppressive apartheid system. The vote passed with an overwhelming majority following a successful referendum held June 15-July 14, with 71% voting in favor.
As Palestinians we warmly welcome the historic vote of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) membership to support our call to boycott Israeli academic institutions complicit in Israel’s regime of military occupation, settler colonialism and apartheid.
Oscar winner Jane Campion (Best Director, 2021), and Basque filmmaker Estíbaliz Urresola Solaguren are among those to ask for their films to be withdrawn from the Jerusalem Film Festival, which ends tomorrow. At least three other directors, from the US and UK, also did so. Campion's 1989 film Sweetie, and Urresola's debut feature 20,000 Species of Bees, were expected to screen at the festival this week.
More than 300 businesses, cultural and sports associations, trade unions, and movements throughout Italy have declared themselves Israeli Apartheid Free Zones and pledged to fight all forms of racism and discrimination.
18 July 2023 - On the United Nations declared Nelson Mandela day, 250 civil society organizations, movement and networks worldwide, including the Palestinian-led BDS movement, marked the occasion by launching a new campaign with a statement calling on the UN to “investigate Israel’s regime of apartheid” as a necessary step to “dismantle apartheid.”
On July 20, the Women’s World Cup kicks off in Australia and Aotearoa / New Zealand. The spotlight will be on women’s football as well as gender equity on and off the field. Palestinian women footballers will be cheering on their colleagues from around the world, though with a heavy heart, as they continue to struggle against Israeli apartheid that kills their dreams, hopes and futures.
The UAE dictatorship commits innumerous crimes against UAE citizens and migrant workers, horrific human rights violations, perpetrates war crimes in Yemen, and maintains a