Ariel DAVID: "In anti-BDS Move, Italy Bringing Huge Academic Delegation to Israel " (Haaretz, May 30, 2016): click here!
Dozens of researchers and academics from the two countries will meet in 'unprecedented' response to campaign to boycott Israeli universities.
In another blow to the Israeli campaign to criminalize Palestine solidarity activism, the Irish government has affirmed that the global boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement represents a “legitimate” means of protest “intended to pressure Israel into ending the occupation.”
Michael DEAS: "BDS is free speech, says Dutch government" (The Internet Intifada, 25 May, 2016): click here!
In response to parliamentary questions from Green Left MP Rik Grashoff, Dutch foreign minister Bert Koenders said that “statements or meetings concerning BDS are protected by freedom of expression and freedom of assembly, as enshrined in the Dutch constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights.”
In 1989, the queer theory professor Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, a founder of the field, presented a paper, “Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl,” at the annual gathering of the Modern Language Association (MLA).
Raoul WOOTLIFF: "Dysfunctional Israeli leadership failing utterly in battle against BDS, state watchdog warns" (The Times of Israel, 24 May, 2016): click here!
The Foreign Ministry has no overall strategy, lacks funds and is failing to achieve its goals in the battle against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel, a damning state comptroller’s report charged on Tuesday.
"An open letter from human rights defenders to Mr. Adama Dieng, concerning participation in the INoGS 2016 annual conference" (Badil, May 24, 2016): click here!
We, the 28 undersigned organizations, call upon you - in your capacity as the UN Secretary-General’s Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide - to withdraw your participation from the annual conference of the International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS), scheduled to take place June 26-29 2016, at the Hebrew University in occupied East Jerusalem.