Category: ACADEMIC BOYCOTT
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Students running for upcoming elections reject Israel trips
Students, belonging to the SA Students Congress (SASCO) and the Progressive Youth Alliance (PYA), who are running in the current Wits University SRC student government elections have signed a public pledge rejecting propaganda junket trips to Israel. In the last election SASCO/PYA won all seats in the Wits University SRC student government. (Click here for the declaration/pledge). In…
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Boycott promotes freedom
This article was published in The Weekend Argus on the 3rd of September 2017 Not for the first time in UCT’s recent past, the university is facing a dilemma: whether to capitulate to the groans of the South African Zionist community, or whether to promote the human rights and academic freedom of Palestinians by implementing an…
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SALUTE, LOVE AND RESPECT FROM SOUTH AFRICA TO PALESTINIAN STUDENTS WHO BOYCOTTED ISRAEL AT ICC
South African students have applauded their Palestinian counterparts who boycotted Israel at the recent International Criminal Moot Court Competition held at the Hague in the Netherlands. The Palestinian team (from Birzeit University near Ramallah), who won the award for “Best Written Memorial for the Defense”, successfully made it to the quarter-final of the international competition.…
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SA Students launches “Internationalist” Calendar
27 January 2017 The Palestine solidarity and human rights organization BDS South Africa welcomes the launch of of the “Internationalist Calendar” by the Johannesburg Region of the South African Students Congress (SASCO). The calendar, features images of South Africa’s Oliver Tambo, Palestine’s Leila Khaled, Cuba’s Fidel Castro and former President Nelson Mandela. It also carries…
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Letter to Tshwane University of Technology
Occupied Palestine October 18 2016 To Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), We, at the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), are troubled by the Tshwane University of Technology’s possible collaboration with Israeli academic institutions. All Israeli universities, without exception, have for decades played a key role in planning, implementing, justifying…
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Israeli Citizens to Tshwane University of Technology – Please do not cooperate with Israeli universities.
October 2016 Israeli Citizens to Tshwane University of Technology – Please do not Cooperate with Israeli Universities To the administration of Tshwane University of Technology, We are Israeli citizens active against our government’s policies of racism, occupation and apartheid. In response to the 2005 Palestinian civil society call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against…
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Palestinian solidarity groups call for ANC YL to take action against sanction busters
Palestinian solidarity groups call for ANC YL to take action against sanction busters 23 September 2016 The Palestine Solidarity Alliance, BDS South Africa, UCT Palestine Solidarity Forum, Wits University PSC, University of Johannesburg PSF, PSA Youth League and several other human rights and Palestine solidarity organisations have called for the ANC Youth League to enforce…
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SASCO Letter to Students in Chile
President Thabo Moloja of South Africa’s largest and oldest student organization the South African Students Congress (SASCO) writes letter to counterparts in Chile.
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VIDEO: HILLARY CLINTON ATTACKS SOUTH AFRICAN INSPIRED BDS BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL MOVEMENT
12 June 2016 United States presidential contender Hillary Clinton has attacked the South African inspired, non-violent, citizen-led, Palestinian-headed, international BDS boycott of Israel movement. Speaking at the pro-Israeli lobby American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) she said: “we have to be united in fighting back against BDS”. >>> Click here for video <<< Even though BDS…
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PRESS STATEMENT: Professor Adhikari Withdraws Presentation from INoGS Israel Conference
24 June 2016 The Palestine solidarity and human rights organisation BDS South Africa has received written communication from Professor Adhikari (Vice President of the International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS)) indicating that he has withdrawn his presentation from the upcoming INoGS conference to be hosted in Israel. The withdrawal follows a letter by BDS SA…
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PRESS STATEMENT: Prominent South African human rights centre withdraws from Israeli conference
22 June 2016 The human rights and Palestine solidarity organisation BDS South Africa welcomes the withdrawal by the Centre of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) from an upcoming conference in Israel. The prominent South African human rights organzation, the CSVR, was scheduled to participate at the upcoming International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS) conference at Israel’s Hebrew University…
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Women elected student body president at three West Bank universities
When Dana Rwaidy started university two years ago, she never thought she would hold the position of student body president. Most class presidents in the occupied West Bank’s universities are chosen from the senior class, and the vast majority have long been men. “I was one of 33 people on the list of possible candidates for…
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Ireland latest EU state to defend BDS
Kevin Squires The Electronic Intifada 28 May 2016 |A Palestine solidarity contingent takes part in the Reclaim the Vision of 1916 march in Dublin, on 24 April, marking 100 years since Ireland’s Easter Rising. (via Facebook) In another blow to the Israeli campaign to criminalize Palestine solidarity activism, the Irish government has affirmed that the…
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Defend right to boycott Israel, urge European NGOs, political parties
May 18, 2016 at 5:46 pm | Published in: EU, Europe & Russia, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, UK More than 300 human rights and aid organisations, church groups, trade unions and political parties from across the continent are urging the European Union (EU) to defend the right of individuals and institutions to take…