Activists are calling on the Brooklyn Academy of Music to take a clear stance in support of Palestinian human rights and cancel an upcoming performance by the Batsheva Dance Company.
“I can no longer ethically or morally consent to use my labor in any way that supports an institution that is explicitly manufacturing consent for the unrestrained, illegal, ‘apocalyptic’ ongoing series of ‘calculated’ genocides to destroy Palestine.”
The Kamal Adwan Hospital was invaded by the Israeli army and emptied of most of its patients and medical staff, while quadcopter drones opened fire on people inside. The hospital’s director, Dr. Husam Abu Safiyeh, is the only remaining doctor.
The Palestinian BDS National Committee has called for a renewed campaign targeting Chevron over its connection to Israeli apartheid.
As a university steeped in the legacy of Balfour, we have an urgent duty to end complicity in Israel’s settler colonial project. Divestment from companies complicit in occupation, apartheid, and genocide is the first step toward historical redress.
Fifty years ago, I joined in protests against the Vietnam war. Today the mainstream media is smearing pro-Palestine student protests in ways that are even worse than how we were slandered back then.
As people of faith we believe in a better way. It is not too late for you to change course and rid yourself of deadly investments in companies profiting from the Israeli occupation. Join your courageous students and divest now.
In the first such divestment action by a major Christian denomination, the General Conference of The United Methodist Church has voted to divest from Israel bonds, and those of other countries carrying out prolonged military occupations.
Alumni of Rice University Students for Justice in Palestine are condemning the university for suppressing a campus vote on divesting from the Gaza genocide.
The Harvard University Out Of Occupied Palestine Coalition has established a Liberated Zone to call for an end to Harvard’s moral and material complicity in the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.