Against Apartheid

The Case for Boycotting Israeli Universities

Bill V. Mullen, Ashley Dawson, Bill V. Mullen, Ashley Dawson

• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781608465262
• eBook ISBN: 9781608465279
• Topic: Politik & Internationale Beziehungen
• Subtopic: Geschichte des Nahen Ostens

Focusing on the complicity of Israeli universities in maintaining the occupation of Palestine, and on the repression of academic and political freedom for Palestinians, Against Apartheid powerfully explains why scholars and students throughout the world should refuse to do business with Israeli institutions. This rich collection of essays is a handbook for scholars and activists

NOTES

FOREWORD

1.Avinoam Baral, “The Real Winner in Israel’s Election: BDS,” Haaretz, March 20, 2015.

2.Abraham Greenhouse, “Why Did Israel Intervene for Convicted US Felon Adam Milstein?” Electronic Intifada, December 15, 2014, http://electronicintifada.net/content/why-did-israel-intervene-convicted-us-felon-adam-milstein/14117.

3.Baral, “The Real Winner in Israel’s Election.”

4.Ibid.

5.The David Project, A Burning Campus? Rethinking Israel Advocacy at America’s Universities and Colleges (Boston, MA: The David Project, 2012). www.davidproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2012524-ABurningCampus-RethinkingIsraelAdvocacyAmericasUniversitiesColleges.pdf.

INTRODUCTION

1.Archbishop Desmond Tutu, “Apartheid in the Holy Land,” Guardian, April 28, 2002. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/apr/29/comment.

2.Ibid.

3.Peter Beaumont, “Israel Risks Becoming An Apartheid State If Peace Talks Fail, Says John Kerry,” Guardian, April 28, 2014. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/28/israel-apartheid-state-peace-talks-john-kerry

4.Peter Beaumont, “John Kerry Apologizes for Apartheid Remark,” Guardian, April 29, 2014. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/29/john-kerry-apologises-israel-apartheid-remarks.

5.For a more extensive discussion of Israel as an apartheid state, see Ben White, Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner’s Guide (New York: Pluto Press, 2014).

6.United Nations, “International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid,” November 30, 1973. http://legal.un.org/avl/ha/cspca/cspca.html.

7.United Nations, International Criminal Court, “Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court,” July 17, 1998. http://www.icc-cpi.int/nr/rdonlyres/ea9aeff7-5752-4f84-be94-0a655eb30e16/0/rome_statute_english.pdf.

8.Omar Barghouti, BDS: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2011), 63.

9.Ibid.

10.This account of South African apartheid is drawn from the South African Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) report, Occupation, Colonialism, Apartheid?: A Re-Assessment of Israel’s Conduct in the Occupied Palestinian Territories Under International Law (Cape Town: HSRC, May 2009), 4-6.

11.Ibid, 21.

12.Ibid.

13.Eyal Weizman, Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation (New York: Verso, 2007), 80.

14.Ibid., 81.

15.HSRC, 21.

16.United Nations General Assembly, “Report of the Special Rapporteur on Independence of Judges and Lawyers,” June 18, 2010. http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/57D00BE6597450FF8525774D0064F621.

17.HSRC, 22.

18.Ilan Pappé, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Oxford: One World, 2007).

19.Oren Yiftachel, “‘Ethnocracy’: the Politics of Judaizing Israel/Palestine,” Constellations: International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory 6, no. 3 (1999): 364–390.

20.Ali Abunimah, The Battle for Justice in Palestine (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2014), 56.

21.Ben White, Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner’s Guide (London: Pluto Press, 2009), 21.

22.Ibid., 36.

23.Ibid.

24.Yiftachel, “Ethnocracy.”

25.David Remnick, “The One-State Reality,” New Yorker, November 17, 2014, www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/17/one-state-reality.

26.Abunimah, The Battle for Justice in Palestine, 48–53.

27.Ibid., 54.

28.Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel: http://pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=869.

29.Ibid.

30.United States Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) Mission Statement: www.usacbi.org/mission-statement/.

31.“Historic Landslide BDS Vote by Grad Student Union at University of California,” Labor for Palestine, December 10, 2014, http://laborforpalestine.net/2014/12/10/historic-landslide-bds-vote-by-grad-student-union-at-university-of-california/.

32.Chomsky, for example, has been a consistent critic of BDS strategy. See Noam Chomsky, “On Israel-Palestine and BDS,” Nation, July 2, 2014. www.thenation.com/article/180492/israel-palestine-and-bds. See also “Responses to Noam Chomsky on Israel-Palestine and BDS,” Nation, July 10, 2014, www.thenation.com/article/180590/responses-noam-chomsky-israel-palestine-and-bds.

33.See Wael Elasady, “Chomsky and the BDS Struggle” in Socialist Worker, July 15, 2014, http://socialistworker.org/2014/07/15/chomsky-and-the-bds-struggle.

34.Ibid.

35.“Past Is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine,” Settler Colonial Studies (June 2012), http://antipodefoundation.org/2012/06/08/intervention-past-is-present-settler-colonialism-in-palestine/.

36.In addition to these sources an excellent book about teaching Palestinian life under Occupation and resistance is Marcy Jane Knopf-Newman’s The Politics of Teaching Palestine to Americans: Addressing Pedagogical Strategies (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013).

37.See “AAAS Academic Boycott Resolution” at http://aaastudies.org/content/index.php/about-aaas/resolutions.

38.See “Council Resolution on Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions” at www.theasa.net/american_studies_association_resolution_on_academic_boycott_of_israel.

39.Ibid.

40.See Nora Barrows-Friedman In Our Power: U.S. Stude...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Legal page
• Table of Contents
• Foreword: Ali Abunimah
• Introduction: Ashley Dawson and Bill V. Mullen
• I. From the Front Lines: Palestinian Scholars Make the Case for Academic Boycott
• II. Taking On the Settler-Colonial University: Academic Boycott and Academic Freedom
• III. The Academic Boycott of Israeli Universities in Historical Context
• IV. Scholars and Students in the Struggle, under Attack
• V. New Horizons for the Academic Boycott Movement
• Appendix
• About the Contributors
• Notes
• Index
• Backcover