01/01/2010 PACBI Newsletter #1 - 2009 BDS Highlights The Year 2009 has proved to be a watershed in the growth of the global BDS movement.  The massive lethal Israeli war of aggression on the Gaza Strip in late December 2008 and January 2009 galvanized many organized groups and individuals around the world to call for BDS actions as a means t....

PACBI | BRICUP Newsletter | 8 November 2009 Implementing the Academic Boycott: Individuals vs. Institutions PACBI column for the November 2009 Newsletter of BRICUP We have shared with readers of the BRICUP Newsletter the recently publicized PACBI guidelines for the academic and cultural boycott of Israel [1].  We are very heartened by the steady mail we have been receiving in recent months from....

PACBI | 1 October 2009 PACBI Guidelines for the International Academic Boycott of Israel (Revised August 2010) Since its founding in 2004, PACBI has advocated a boycott of Israeli academic and cultural institutions, based on the premise that these institutions are complicit in the system of oppression that has denied Palestinians their basic rights guaranteed by international law. This position is in line wi....

PACBI | 20 July 2009 PACBI Guidelines for the International Cultural Boycott of Israel Since April 2004, PACBI has called upon intellectuals and academics worldwide to “comprehensively and consistently boycott all Israeli academic and cultural institutions as a contribution to the struggle to end Israel’s occupation, colonization and system of apartheid.” [1]In 2006, a decisive majori....

PACBI | 2 September 2007 PACBI Appeal to North American Academics: Upholding Debate as a Necessary Component of Academic Freedom Upholding Debate as a Necessary Component of Academic FreedomThe Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) welcomes the historic resolutions passed by the UK’s University and College Union (UCU) at its first Annual Congress in May 2007. In particular, PACBI applaud....

PACBI | 16 June 2007 PACBI's Position on Diplomatic Missions’ Involvement in Dubious Palestinian-Israeli Cooperation Schemes and International Visits to the OPT For years, some diplomatic missions in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) -- including East Jerusalem -- have sponsored, organized, or otherwise facilitated joint Palestinian-Israeli projects that obfuscate or altogether ignore the reality of Israeli colonial and racist policies aga....

PACBI | 15 April 2007 PACBI Position on Visits of International Delegations and Individuals to the OPT and Israel At a time when the international movement to isolate Israel is gaining ground in response to the escalation of Israel‘s colonial and racist policies, we respectfully urge conscientious academics, artists and intellectuals from around the world, including those who visit the occupied Palestinia....

PACBI | 28 January 2006 The PACBI Call for Academic Boycott Revised: Adjusting the Parameters of the Debate The Palestinian Call for Academic Boycott Revised: Adjusting the Parameters of the DebateThe Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) has decided to omit from its 2004 Call for Boycott (enclosed below) an exclusion clause which has been justifiably misunderstood b....

PACBI | 12 October 2005 The Case for Cultural Boycott In 2004 the 20th Haifa International film festival established a section for "New Palestinian Cinema" in cooperation with Masharaf magazine in Haifa. Several Palestinian film makers were invited to present their films at this festival. A number of us at Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cult....