Moves to “recognize Palestine” and co-opt the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement aim to guarantee Israel’s survival as a racist state. Read more about Recognizing Palestine, BDS and the survival of Israel
“A new generation of workers and students is seeing how we’re linked — not only as workers, not only as students, not only as Americans, but as people of conscience to the struggle of Palestinians,” says a student activist. Read more about Student workers "have spoken": US labor union backs Israel boycott
A convicted tax fraud trying to conceal his past has become a key financier of anti-Palestinian initiatives on US campuses. Read more about Why did Israel intervene for convicted US felon Adam Milstein?
Motion approved by Middle East Studies Association defends right of professors to urge that academic ties with Israel be severed. Read more about America's Middle East scholars finally discuss "boycott Israel" call
UAW Local 2865, representing 13,000 student workers at the University of California, has become the first labor union in the US to join the BDS movement. Read more about Victory: US student workers' union backs Israel boycott in landslide vote
A former EAPPI volunteer, Marthie Momberg was on her way to a Kairos Palestine conference in Bethlehem. Read more about Israel denies entry to South African boycott activist
Instead of protecting the rights of the speakers and organizers to hold an event, university capitulated to efforts to shut it down. Read more about Why did University of Toronto let hate group shut down divestment launch?
Only 52 of more than 700 members backed motion that would have shut down debate on boycotting Israel. Read more about Effort to block Israel boycott backfires at anthropology association
Rio Grande do Sul has admitted that opposition from Palestinians led it to tear up deal with Israeli arms firm. Read more about Brazilian state cancels contract with Israeli drone-maker
Students are beginning to see the fruits of their divestment resolution passed last May.
Read more about Wesleyan University dumps Sabra hummus after student campaign