Nadia ELIA: "Palestine solidarity: Women, children, gays - and straight men too" (Middle East Eye, Dec 4, 2015): click here!
" Israel’s violence against Palestinians is both gendered and racist. Women and children - the victims most usually decried by Western feminists - but also all adult men, both gay and straight, are oppressed by Israel. The violence takes on multiple forms, but pervades every aspect of the lives of all Palestinians. Women are targeted as the mothers, sisters or wives of present and future “terrorists”.
Dana OLWAN: Essay: "Why BDS is a feminist issue". North America's largest feminist organisation is voting on whether to endorse the BDS movement against Israel" (Al Jazeera, Nov 24, 2015): click here!
"The story of Hashlamon's death and the scarce media coverage it has received in the West raises some important questions: Where is the feminist outcry against such forms of violence, rooted as they are in colonial, sexualised and gendered registers of worth and worthlessness?”
"American Anthropological Association (AAA) conference passes BDS resolution with a whopping 88% majority" (PACBI, 21 Nov, 2015): click here!
"As heirs to a long tradition of scholarship on colonialism, anthropologists affirm, through this resolution, that the core problem is Israel’s maintenance of a settler colonial regime based on Jewish supremacy and Palestinian dispossession. By supporting the boycott, anthropologists are taking a stand for justice through action in solidarity with Palestinians.”
The American Anthropological Association’s BDS proposal could have far-reaching consequences: strengthening Israel’s right wing and abetting BDS’s rhetorical pretense regarding its true aims.
Besieged Gaza, Occupied Palestine – "We, organizations that make up the majority of the Palestinian student sector, call upon our peers and student organizations and unions around the world to mobilize against Israel’s policies of occupation, colonization and apartheid in Palestine".