April 11, 2019 — On April 10, Omar Barghouti, a Palestinian human rights defender and a co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement for Palestinian rights, was denied entry into the United States at Ben Gurion Airport despite having valid travel documents. He was scheduled to travel to the U.S. on a speaking tour that included public events at NYU in Washington, D.C., NYU in New York City, and Harvard University; and meetings with leading policy makers, thought-leaders and journalists.
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Palestinian teams and athletes are calling for a boycott of Puma over its support for illegal Israeli settlements on stolen Palestinian land.
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The Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees (PFUUPE) and the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) urge the University of Cape Town (UCT) to vote in favor of the boycott of Israeli academic institutions in support of our nonviolent struggle for freedom, justice and equality.
Israel wants to build the longest submarine electricity cable to Europe via Cyprus and Greece. The EuroAsia Interconnector will unify Europe and Israel’s electricity networks, including grids powering Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory. This multi-billion euro project rewards Israel for its war crimes while Palestinians are being kept in the dark.
A major university in South Africa has announced that it will respect the call for the boycott of Israeli institutions complicit in the violation and denial of Palestinian rights.
We welcome the University of Cape Town’s vote to “condemn the atrocities and human rights violations perpetrated in the Occupied Palestinian Territories” and reserving the right to disassociate itself from “academic institutions that support (directly or indirectly) the violation of human rights and/or enable the violation of human rights.”
March 30, 2019 - Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are marking Land Day and the one-year anniversary of Gaza’s Great March of Return by protesting against Israel’s brutal siege and demanding their rights. These unarmed protesters have been met with Israeli sniper fire that so far has killed 195 protesters, and injured 29,000 more.
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) calls on all people of conscience to boycott the 24 March event ‘Towards a New Generation in Palestine & Israel’ at the London School of Economics, as it violates the anti-normalisation guidelines agreed on by the vast majority of Palestinian civil society since 2007.
March 21, 2019 — A Vienna museum, Volkskundemuseum, has cancelled an event on Palestinian rights where former minister in Nelson Mandela’s government Ronnie Kasrils was scheduled to speak (Video by Ronnie Kasrils).
The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University illustrates just why Palestinian academics and civil society call for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. In paid advertising on Facebook, the Begin-Sadat Center openly advocates for generating increased “hopelessness” among Palestinians, who already live under Israel's regime of military occupation, oppression and apartheid in which Israeli universities are deeply complicit.