Campaign: Academic Boycott

As Israel’s decades-old regime of settler-colonialism and apartheid continues to escalate its ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing, a new wave of...

• Blog

We write as the Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees (PFUUPE) and Palestine Academy for Science and Technology (PalAST), which represent nearly 10,000 university faculty and staff members at 18 Palestinian universities, in response to the many principled stands by universities around the world on the situation in Gaza and the dire consequences it is having for Palestinians.

• Open Letter

Palestinians welcome the news that the Israeli ambassador has been removed from the program of the AgriBusiness Forum 2026, set to take place in Athens next week.

• PACBI Statement

Palestinians call to boycott the AgriΒusiness Forum 2026 over its ties with the genocidal Israeli government and Israeli entities complicit in Israel’s atrocity crimes against Palestinians. This is especially urgent in light of the criminal war of aggression by Israel and the US against the people of Iran.

• PACBI Statement

The European Society of Criminology voted by a significant majority to require scholars from illegal settlement institutions to indicate in their affiliations such location in accordance with international law and to condemn Israel’s atrocity crimes against Palestinians, including its war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza.

• PACBI Statement

More information about the academic boycott and a summary of these guidelines is available at the academic boycott section of this website. ...

• PACBI Statement

PACBI calls on all principled scholars to boycott the conference “Opposing Racial Discrimination: Historical Struggles and Legal Perspectives” to be held at Hebrew University, May 11-12, 2026.

• 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.

• PACBI Statement

The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) welcomes the more than 350 academics from 20 Latin American countries who have committed to taking effective measures to end complicity in Israel's regime of military occupation, apartheid, and genocide against the indigenous Palestinian people.

• Update

National Associations Must Uphold Suspension of the Israeli Sociological Society at the International Sociological Association’s December 2025 Meeting of National Associations

• Statement