In a 114-8 vote, the McGill Association of University Teachers endorsed the academic and cultural boycott of Israel. The win came after years of organizing, demonstrating the collective power of professors, librarians, and students against genocide.
The suspension of the Israeli Sociological Society by the International Sociological Association marks a significant milestone in the international academic boycott of Israel.
The Gaza genocide is nearing its final, most brutal phase, and Israeli universities are providing intellectual, logistical, and technological support. The academic boycott of Israeli institutions is the minimum that justice demands.
Since its establishment, Tel-Aviv University has functioned as an arm of Israel’s settler colonial project. As calls for university divestment continue to grow, we must also demand that schools cut ties with institutions contributing to war crimes.
Hebrew University is part and parcel of apartheid Israel’s regime of terror and control. We must end the exchange program between the University of California Davis and Hebrew University.
Despite the deep complicity of Israeli universities in the genocide in Gaza, Canadian universities are refusing the calls of their students to sever ties with these Israeli academic institutions.
Israeli university presidents condemnation of the Gaza solidarity protests in the U.S. is revealing Israeli universities’ complicity in occupation, apartheid, and genocide.
Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian’s detention confirms what the BDS movement has long argued: Israeli universities are first and foremost instruments of the state and agents of Zionism’s project of dispossession and apartheid rule.
Maya Wind’s new book meticulously demonstrates how Israeli academic institutions were created to serve the Zionist colonization of Palestine. They continue to do so to this day while fueling Israel’s university-military-industrial complex.
Philosophy professors across North America, Latin America, and Europe call to support the academic and cultural boycott of Israeli institutions, and to speak out fearlessly to advance the cause of Palestinian liberation and justice for all.