Further Reading & Resources

The Truth Behind the Cornell-Technion Partnership:

  • New York tech university evasive about Israeli partner’s role in arms industry
  • Cornell NYC Tech’s Alarming Ties to the Israeli Occupation
  • Why is a New York hospital being sacrificed for an Israel-backed science facility?
  • Birzeit University Right to Education Campaign Calls upon Cornell University to respect human rights and withdraw from its partnership with Technion
  • New York to Host Israel’s Top Drone Lab
  • USACBI: Open Letter to Cornell University: Don’t Collaborate with Apartheid
  • Cornell University’s Students for Justice in Palestine statement and iPetition
  • NYC’s Deadly Deal with Israeli Apartheid
  • NYACT member Prof David Klein speaking on Law and Disorder Radio, January 2012 (starts at 32min)
  • End Cornell University Collaboration with Technion

Boycotting the Technion:

In Canada:

  • Technion: Structures of Oppression
  • McGill and Concordia Must Boycott Technion

In the UK:

  • Putting the Spotlight on London university’s links to Israel’s war machine
  • LSE: New concerns over human rights

Academic Boycott of Israel:

The Case for Cultural & Academic Boycott of Israel with intro by Ken Loach:

Organizations / Articles:

  • Academic Boycott has to be Part of the BDS Campaign (Article by Ben White, October 2012)
  • Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)
  • US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI)
  • European Platform for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (EPACBI)
  • British Committee for Universities for Palestine (BRICUP)
  • The Economy of the Occupation, The Academic Boycott of Israel (Report by the Alternative Information Center)
  • Academic Boycott and the Israeli Left
  • South African Academics Call for Boycott of Ben Gurion University
  • Swedes Call for Academic Boycott of Israel
  • ‘A level of racist violence I have never seen’: UCLA professor Robin D. G. Kelley
  • An Open Letter from the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) in response to David Horowitz New York Times ad

Books:

  • Omar Barghouti, Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2011).
  • Corporate Watch, Targeting Israeli Apartheid: A Boycott Divestment Sanctions Handbook (London: Corporate Watch, 2011).
  • Audrea Lim, ed., The Case for Sanctions against Israel (London and New York: Verso, 2012).
  • Rich Wiles, ed. Generation Palestine: Voices from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (London: Pluto Press, 2013).

Examples:

  • University of Johannesburg to Officially Sever Ties with Israel’s Ben-Gurion University
  • In Canadian first, Carleton students pass Israel occupation divestment resolution by large margin
  • Action: Support University of Regina Students’ Union’s BDS Resolution

Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS):

  • BDS Movement
  • We divest.org
  • Lawsuit Against Olympia Food Co-op Declared Illegal Lawsuit Against Public Participation
  • BDS for Palestinian Rights: The Legacy of Mandela and Dr. King