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PACBI Statement: "British academic union deals one more blow to business-as-usual with the Israeli academy"
BRICUP Statement "UCU Congress endorses boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel despite legal warning"

The full text of all the motions, except for late motions and late amendments, can be read here


 

May 28, 2009
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Mick Napier [Sumoud] 17 May 2009 - Five BDS Campaign activists face charges following their interruption of a performance during the 2008 Edinburgh International Festival by an Israeli musical ensemble.

 

May 17, 2009
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"Boycott movement can help stop Israeli ethnic cleansing"
Scottish PSC
17 May 2009

May 17, 2009
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PACBI, 5 May 2009 - Twenty-one staff members of the University of Tromsø (www2.uit.no/www/inenglish)  have signed a call for boycott of all Israeli academic institutions.


The initiative calls for the University to "establish an academic boycott of Israel", of Israel‘s "institutions of education, research and culture, and the institutions‘ representatives, regardless of religion and nationality."

May 6, 2009
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Israeli Apartheid is not Fiction! Cancel the special tribute to Israel in the London Sci-Fi Festival!
PACBI - Open letter to the organizers and attendees of Sci-Fi-London International Festival 2009

Ramallah, 29 April 2009

 

April 30, 2009
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York Centre for International and Security Studies -Academic Boycotts and Contemporary Conflict
Debate to be held on 11 May 2009

 

April 30, 2009
Analysis

Rafeef Ziadah [ZNet] 19 April 2009 

Cultural resistance, consciousness, and Palestinian existence

Since its inception Israel has taken great pains to destroy all signs of Palestinian culture and target Palestinians who chose cultural production as their method of resistance. Edward Said explained "Culture is a way of fighting against extinction and obliteration", and it is basic to colonial policy to present the colonized as primitive, backward and uncultured.

April 27, 2009
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April 26, 2009
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April 15, 2009
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By Nathan Morley [Cyprus Mail] 19 March 2009 -  COMMERCE Minister Antonis Paschalides is looking into a humiliating blunder by a leading EU supermarket chain after it sold tons of Israeli fruit as ”Produce of Cyprus”, he said yesterday.


German-owned Aldi were left red-faced when they admitted to the Cyprus Mail that they had effectively misled thousands of Irish consumers by falsely labeling Israeli grapefruit as Cypriot produce.

April 3, 2009