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Posts Tagged ‘Boycott of Israel’

Send $300 billion to Detroit, not to Israel

By Guest Post • Jan 28th, 2010 • Category: Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

Ann Arbor’s new Human Rights Commissioner, Mr. Neal Elyakin, has publicly written that “The term ‘Palestinian’ is itself a masterful twisting of history… If the Palestinians are indeed a myth, then the real question becomes ‘Why?’ Why invent a fictitious people? The answer is that the myth of the Palestinian People serves as the justification for Arab occupation of the Land of Israel.”

More speech silencing: Michigan Student Assembly votes gag rule

By Guest Post • Oct 29th, 2009 • Category: Education, Grassroots Activism, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

These ideas are not allowed to be expressed in an American University Student Union:
Boycott all Israeli products.
Take that $1 trillion you’re spending to kill Muslims, and spend it instead on re-building Detroit.
Stop 400 years of White Privilege—the University should admit every Black high school graduate. Read about it here.

Just Intellectuals? Oppression, Resistance, and the Public Role of Intellectuals

By Guest Post • Jul 8th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Education, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Resistance

WRITTEN BY OMAR BARGHOUTI and first published in Institute of Social Studies
Omar Barghouti, an independent Palestinian political and cultural analyst and commentator, is a long-time advocate of a unitary, secular democratic state in historic Palestine. He is a co-founder of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), established in 2004, [...]