Talal Asad: Why do I support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement?

April 10, 2015 Carole McGranahan [Savage Minds is honored to publish this essay by Talal Asad. He teaches anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center and specializes on religion and politics in the Middle East and Europe.] I have never visited Israel, or the occupied West Bank and Gaza, but I have several friends, Jews and Palestinians, who teach in universities there and

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Middle East Studies Scholars and Librarians Call for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions

by Jadaliyya Reports Aug 06 2014 [The following letter calling on scholars and librarians within Middle East studies to boycott Israeli academic institutions was submitted in the name of the below signatories to Jadaliyya on 6 August 2014.] We, the undersigned scholars and librarians working on the Middle East, hold that silence about the latest humanitarian catastrophe caused by Israel’s new

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‘We want to exchange our personal experiences of war, Sir’

Nazmi Al-Masri August 25, 2014 This day is carved in my memory. As all academics in Gaza, I had given much thought to my students who were suffering all sorts of agonies and worries caused by Israel’s aggression. After 40 days of atrocities caused by heavy bombardment and random artillery shelling, which destroyed thousands of houses and devastated countless families, the Islamic

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Imagine you are a Palestinian academic or a student

Nazmi Al-Masri on August 12, 2014 Over the one-year period from July 2013 to July 2014, I was supposed to participate in six international academic conferences and meetings as a partner in four international projects: three EU-funded projects (two from Erasmus-Mundus, one Tempus) and one British Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project. Because of the siege and the current war, I

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1,200 Spanish University professors and researchers demand to break academic relationships with Israel

    More than 1,000 professionals have signed a manifesto, released by the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) academic campaign for Palestine, demanding to end all institutional relations with the Israeli academic world, until it stops supporting occupation and apartheid in Palestine. The campaign, which started two years ago, asks for support from professionals from the academic and scientific field, and also from associations linked to

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Boycotting Israel: the situation has changed and I have changed my mind too

  MARTIN SHAW 31 July 2014 The latest Israeli assault on Gaza is for one scholar an occasion to rethink the fundamental arguments for and against a boycott of the country.   Israel’s slaughter in Gaza must make us all pause and ask whether we should rethink our stance on the Palestine conflict. The killing is presented as a regrettable

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Resources on the Complicity of the Israeli Academy in Colonization, Occupation, and Apartheid

                      General http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1321 http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1307 (see references) http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1285 (see references) http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1175 http://www.middleeastmonitor.com/articles/debate/4461-academic-boycott-has-to-be-part-of-the-bds-campaign http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/economy-of-the-occupation/2223-the-economy-of-the-occupation-23-24-academic-boycott-of-israel.html http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1430 http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/catastrophic-thinking-did-ben-gurion-try-to-rewrite-history.premium-1.524308 http://alrasedproject.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/alrased1_eng.pdf http://alrasedproject.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/report_english_yara.pdf http://electronicintifada.net/content/court-stops-israeli-university-suspension-palestinians-commemorating-nakba/13408   Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) http://againstcornelltechnion.wordpress.com/ http://www.usacbi.org/2011/12/open-letter-to-cornell-university-dont-collaborate-with-apartheid/   Tel Aviv University http://www.electronicintifada.net/downloads/pdf/090708-soas-palestine-society.pdf http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10673.shtml http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1216 http://www.electronicintifada.net/downloads/pdf/090708-soas-palestine-society.pdf http://electronicintifada.net/content/study-tel-aviv-university-part-and-parcel-israeli-occupation/3434 http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/right-wing-ngo-funding-tel-aviv-university-dig-in-east-jerusalem-1.529641 Haifa University http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1285 http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1840(includes Tel Aviv U) http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1794 http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1329 http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1274 Hebrew University http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1852 (see references) http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=11 http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1242 http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=947

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At the Islamic University in Gaza

  Omar Robert Hamilton 6 August 2014 LRB Blog We pulled up to the shining blue facade of the main hall of the Islamic University in Gaza in the summer of 2012. The Palestine Festival of Literature was running a seminar and an afternoon of workshops with students from the Arabic and English departments. Jamal Mahjoub, Selma Dabbagh and Amr

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Educational Toll of Gaza War: At Least 2 Universities, 148 Schools

              Rasha Faek, Yousef Al-Helou and Thaer Thabet / 03 Aug 2014 At least two universities, seven United Nations schools and an estimated 141 locally run schools have suffered severe damage in the month-long war between Israel and Hamas. Israeli missiles hit the Islamic University of Gaza early on Saturday, destroying a major building

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Now diplomacy has failed, boycotting Israel might be the only way we can protect the people of Gaza

The Israeli government has already proven that it fears international isolation   YARA HAWARI Wednesday 30 July 2014 Israel has lost its grip on reality. The death toll in Gaza stands at well over a thousand and continues to rise by the day. The coastal strip has been reduced to rubble. Rather than celebrating Eid this week, Palestinians in Gaza

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