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Iain Banks : why I’m supporting a cultural boycott of Israel
6 avril 2013 |

Iain M Banks | The Guardian | 6 avril 2013 |
Since the 2010 attack on the Turkish-led convoy to Gaza in international waters, Iain Banks has instructed his agent not to sell the rights to his novels to Israeli publishers.
I support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign because, (...)
Hessel et la Palestine : M. Hollande, votre « incompréhension » n’est pas légitime
9 mars 2013 |

Par Majed Bamya | Le Plus du Nouvelobs | 9 mars 2013 |
LE PLUS. « Incompréhension ». C’est le terme qu’a choisi d’utiliser François Hollande lors de l’hommage national à Stéphane Hessel, à propos des prises de position de ce dernier en faveur de la cause palestinienne. Majed Bamya, ancien membre de la (...)
Judith Butler’s Remarks to Brooklyn College on BDS
10 février 2013 |

By Judith Butler | The Nation | 10 février 2013 |
Editors Note : Despite a campaign to silence them, philsophers Judith Butler and Omar Barghouti spoke at Brooklyn College on Thursday night. In an exclusive, The Nation presents the text of Butler’s remarks.
Usually one starts by saying that one (...)
Litmus Tests
5 février 2013 |

Editorial of the New York Times | 5 février 2013 |
One dispiriting lesson from Chuck Hagel’s nomination for defense secretary is the extent to which the political space for discussing Israel forthrightly is shrinking. Republicans focused on Israel more than anything during his confirmation (...)
Résistance palestinienne et éducation
1er février 2013 |

Mustafa al-Barghouti | Palestine Monitor | 1 février 2013 |
La clé d’une résistance durable face à l’apartheid israélien est l’éducation, laquelle serait grandement renforcée par la mise en œuvre de la loi nationale sur les fonds pour l’enseignement supérieur, écrit Mustafa al-Barghouthi
Les (...)
The subduing of Israeli academia
10 janvier 2013 |

Or Kashti | Haaretz | 10 janvier 2013 |
Another unauthorized outpost, another West Bank settlement. This time the intention is not to carry out settlement construction in the West Bank but instead concerns a long-standing goal of the right wing : subduing the system of higher education. In the (...)
Why boycotting Israel matters
20 décembre 2012 |

Antony Loewenstein | www.abc.net & PACBI | 20 décembre 2012 |
New Zealand’s $20 billion national pension fund announced this month that it was divesting from three Israeli companies that were complicit in the building of colonies in the West Bank and the annexation wall that runs deep into (...)
A comprehensive analysis of the arguments surrounding the call for a cultural boycott of Israel
20 décembre 2012 |

Samah Sabawi | Tals of a City by the Sea & PACBI | 20 décembre 2012 |
Introduction
International artists find themselves standing at a crossroad between their desire to support all forms of artistic expression, Israeli or otherwise, and the Palestinian civil society’s call to support a (...)
The World Social Forum – Free Palestine November 28-December 1, 2012
14 décembre 2012 | Jonathan Rosenhead pour BRICUP |

The World Social Forum (WSF) has for many years been a regular fixture at Porto Alegre, a sizeable but otherwise undistinguished city towards the very south of Brazil. What was unique about this version of the event is the concentration on a single area of social concern. That this was (...)
Ariel College : Q & A
14 décembre 2012 |

Sue Blackwell | BRICUP | 14 décembre 2012 |
Q. When is a university not a university ?
A. When it is in a West Bank settlement.
Let’s call it Ariel College for now. The Israelis used to call it the College of Judea and Samaria, which nicely obscures the fact that it is based in the (...)