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January 3, 2025 – In an unprecedented move, the leadership of the Modern Language Association, one of the largest humanities o..

Beginning on June 15th, the American Anthropological Association will be voting on a resolution to endorse the academic boycott of Israeli institutions. This is a discussion of frequently asked questions about the academic boycott and the stakes of the resolution put before AAA members.

Beginning on June 15th, the American Anthropological Association will be voting on a resolution to endorse the academic boycott of Israeli institutions. Join us for a discussion of frequently asked questions about the academic boycott and the stakes of the resolution put before AAA members.

The American Anthropological Association will be voting on a resolution to endorse the academic Boycott of Israeli academic institutions, starting 15 June. Watch this discussion on how the Palestinian BDS movement is embedded in and builds with transnational movements for decolonization, demilit..

The American Anthropological Association will be voting on a resolution to endorse the academic Boycott of Israeli academic institutions, starting June 15th.  Join us for a discussion of how the Palestinian BDS movement is embedded in and builds with transnational movements for decolonizat..

On 22 March 2022, the voting membership of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) passed a resolution (768 votes in favor, 167 votes against) endorsing the 2005 call of Palestinian civil society for the boycott, divestment, and sanction of I..

In December 2021, 93% of attendees of the Middle East Studies Association 2021 virtual business meeting voted to advance a referendum endorsing the 2005 Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Call against Israel. The MESA resolution emphasizes the Israeli academy’s imbrication in suppressing Palesti..

The following press release was written by members of the CUNY Professional Staff Congress who supported the union’s “Resolution in Support of the Palestinian People,” which was passed by the union’s Delegate Assembly on 10 June 2021.

Even as numerous writers and artists faced repression and backlash for their solidarity with Palestine throughout 2019, Isabella Hammad’s The Parisian—featuring a Palestinian protagonist and set in pre-Nakba Palestine—e..

An account of the meeting at of the Foundations of Political Theory section of American Political Science Association (APSA) and its discussion of a resolution to endorse the academic boycott of Israel.

We appreciate the recent statement on academic freedom from President Price and Provost Kornbluth following the US Department of Education’s investigation of the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East studies.

On 19 September 2019, the Department of Education under Secretary Betsy DeVos ordered the UNC-Duke Middle East Studies program to remake itself 

We write to express our shock and disappointment with the City of Dortmund, for rescinding the Nelly Sachs Award for Literature from Kamila Shamsie because of her commitment to the nonviolent Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights.

Malihe Razazan of VOMENA speaks with attorney Zoha Khalili from Palestine Legal about Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's proposed resolution to protect the right to boycott. This comes after the US House of Representatives passed a non-binding resolution condemning the BDS movement.

Politically progressive faculty at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, have begun organizing more actively at their workplace. Most recently, a number of them have come together to run a slate in the upcoming campus union chapter elections, setting forth a vision of building a vibrant chapter ..

Last week, Marc Lamont Hill, academic, activist, and media personality, addressed the United Nations at its commemoration of the 

Today the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure released the following statement calling on public universities to stop requiring speakers and others to pledge that they do not now, nor will they in the future, endorse a specific a specific political movement known as boyco..

In early January – the New Orleans City Council passed a resolution imposing a human rights screen to prevent municipal investments in initiatives that make the city complicit in human rights abuses. That resolution included projects that enhance Israel’s apartheid regime.

Avi Shlaim is Professor Emeritus of International Relations at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy. One of Israel’s foremost “New Historians,” he is the author of, among other works, Collusion across the Jordan: King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement, and the Pa..

The past two weeks have been filled with a flurry of news and developments concerning Palestine that have appeared in piecemeal fashion. As per usual, mainstream international and US media have portrayed events in Jerusalem and Gaza, as well as legislation in the United States, as isolated incid..

After three years of unprecedentedly open debate, the membership of the Modern Language Association’s (MLA) membership is finally voting on the Palestinian call to endorse a boycott of Israeli academic institutions.

As a thirteenth year of Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) draws to a close across campuses in over two hundred cities around the world, Visualizing Palestine shares two new data visualizations on the impact of campus activism.

Timeline of North American Campus Divestments, Then and No..