C.
California
State University faculty, staff, administrators, students, and alumni
may endorse:
Boycott News
Oberlin
College student senate passes divestment resolution, he
Electronic
Intifada, May 6, 2013
Association
for Asian American Studies Resolution
to Support the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions, April 20,
2013
UC
Berkeley student government votes to divest, The Electronic
Intifada, April 18, 2013
Teachers
Union of Ireland calls for Academic Boycott of Israel in unanimous vote,
April 4, 2013
UC
San Diego student government votes to divest, The Electronic
Intifada, March 14, 2013
Veolia
Withdraws from California Water Contract Bidding, one-third of a
billion dollars at stake, January 11, 2012
Stanley
Jordan stands with Palestinians, cancelling gig at Israel's Jazz
Festival, January 2013
BDS
roundup: The victories of 2012, The Electronic Intifada
South
Africa's ruling party endorses BDS campaign against Israel,
Haaretz, Dec. 21, 2012: 'Johannesburg - The ruling African National
Congress voted at its annual conference Thursday night to support the
Palestinian boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against
Israel. The ANC declared it was "unapologetic in its view that the
Palestinians are the victims and the oppressed in the conflict with
Israel."'
New
Zealand superfund excludes three Israeli firms on ethical grounds,
The New Zealand Herald, Dec. 12, 2012
Students
at University of Toronto, York University, Carleton University,
University of Regina vote for BDS, Dec. 12, 2012
European
football stars
call for Israel boycott, Green Left, Dec. 9, 2012
Nobel
peace laureates call for Israel military boycott over Gaza assault,
Guardian UK, Nov.
28, 2012
Stevie
Wonder Pulls Out of IDF Fundraiser, The Jewish Daily Forward, Nov.
28, 2012
UC
Irvine
student government votes to divest; UC Irvine student government
unanimously votes to divest
Religious
leaders ask Congress to condition Israel military aid on human rights
compliance, Oct., 2012, Presbyterian Church USA
Arizona
State University student government votes to divest from Israel,
The
Electronic Intifada, June 6, 2012
National
MEChA Endorses Palestinian Boycott Call Against Israel, March 30,
2012
Legal
Review,
CSUN President's Statement,
and Support for this Webpage
President's
Statement December 5, 2011
CSU
Legal Analysis and Administrative Review on University Website Use,
December 19, 2011
Excerpt:
"Professor Klein has every right to express his opinions
about the treatment of the Palestinian people at the hands of the
government of Israel. Furthermore, based upon his thoughts and feelings
about the issue, he has every right to call for a boycott of the
country. Neither action is anti-Semitic."
"Based on these administrative reviews, President Koester
upheld Professor Klein’s right to express his views based on the
principles and tenets of academic freedom and the nation’s guarantees
of free speech."
"The University believes that removing or censoring
Professor Klein’s comments because some in the campus community and/or
others disagree with him and find them offensive would create a grave
precedent for the University and encourage others to demand similar
action on other views and comments with which they disagree. Taking
action to suppress such views would also send the wrong signal to the
students who we have been charged with educating about how a democracy
should address issues involving differing views and be contrary to the
University’s goal to tolerate open dialogue on even the most difficult
issues."
J’ACCUSE!
THE NEW ANTI-ANTI-SEMITISM, CSUN Interim President Harry
Hellenbrand, April 27, 2012
Excerpts: Many of Klein’s
critics implicitly fuse the elected policy of the Israeli government
with God’s covenant with the Jews as a spiritual people and/or ethnic
tribe. This consolidation empowers them to denounce, with the fury of
Jeremiah, dissent to policy as if it were apostasy...
AMCHA charges, too, that Klein is guilty of misusing state
resources -- the CSUN web -- for political ends, citing state code. But
AMCHA conducts some of its political work through UC email accounts,
while SPME has solicited sponsorships for its lectures from UC
departments. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with SPME and AMCHA’s
political advocacy in an educational context. The context presents
advocacy as a contestable proposition.
Letter from California
Attorney General's Office,
May 17, 2012
Excerpt: "Because we
conclude upon review that the evidence...does not support a finding of
misuse of such name and resources, we find no basis for any action on
our part."
Letter from California
Scholars for Academic
Freedom to CSUN President Koester, December 16, 2011
Excerpt: "...we are writing
to express our appreciation for your defense of free speech and
academic freedom."
"As university faculty members, we are well aware of
attempts by special interest groups to stifle critical discussion of
the Middle East, and especially the Palestine/Israel conflict. By
singling out individual faculty, these groups have tried to create an
environment of intimidation, with a chilling effect on freedom of
teaching, inquiry, and political activism. In such a poisonous
atmosphere it is essential to have educational leaders, such as
yourself, genuinely committed to academic freedom."
Letter from California
Scholars for Academic
Freedom to Los AngelesCity Attorney Trutanich, June 21, 2012
Excerpt: "We, the
California Scholars for Academic Freedom, write to state our opposition
to the request you received from the Global Frontier Justice Center to
prosecute Professor David Klein for his website-based speech about
issues pertaining to the Palestine-Israel conflict. The Global
Frontier Justice Center is asking you to abrogate the right to freedom
of speech and the rights of professors to academic freedom in the name
of their partisan political stance that attempts to repress any speech
in the United States that criticizes Israeli policies."
Open
Letter in Support of this Website from USACBI,
January 7, 2012
Excerpts: "While Dr. Klein
is accused of ‘anti-Semitism’ by organizations such as 'Never Again
Canada' and 'AMCHA' who seek to impose their pro-Israel, pro-Zionist
politics upon the California State University, there is no content on
his website that could even arguably be labeled ‘anti-Semitic’ without
the offensive conflation of Jews and Jewishness with the State of
Israel, its government, and its motivating ideology, Zionism..."
"This is far from
the first occasion of organized pro-Israel lobbies and groups targeting
faculty and students for their advocacy for Palestine. From battles
over tenure faced by extraordinarily qualified Palestinian professors
to unjust firings or demotions of faculty who have spoken in support of
Palestine, efforts to intimidate professors are increasing."
Petition:
"Defend Dr. Klein's academic freedom"
Sample statements from
signers:
* "As an Israeli Jew, I extended my support to all those that
join the Palestinian campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions. In
a country that is not only complicit with the Israeli policies of
occupation, apartheid and ethnic cleansing, but fund a vast amount of
these crimes with 3billion dollars a year, Dr. Klein made the only
moral choice. His act should be celebrated, and his bravery respected,
not persecuted."
*"Eventually logically-challenged Zionist ideologues will drop these
silly labels of "anti-semitic" and "self-hating Jews" and realize that
most moral people will choose universal justice over propaganda-driven
myths, regardless of their backgrounds. Freedom of speech on crucial
issues is being attacked at the federal level, and all decent people
need to prioritize what is important in the Constitution. This is at
the very top, and whether you agree or disagree with Mr. Klein's
positions, he has every right to make them public, just as his
opponents have the right to refute them."
*"As an academic, I know that the integrity of the academy in its
mission of seeking truth requires academic freedom. As a Jew, I laud
Dr. Klein for practicing the primary Jewish value of seeking justice.
It is Dr. Klein's detractors who are anti-semetic in their
identification of Judaism with the injustice practiced by the Zionist
state."
*"My family is Palestinian Christian and their facing this Zionist
regime! i have already lost many family members in the Lebanon - israel
war! its time this mass murder ends"
*"As the daughter of German Jews who survived the Nazi years, I fully
support Dr. David Klein's boycott, divestment and sanctions website. My
parents would have been outraged that free speech against Israel's
policies is being equated with anti-Semitism."
Press Coverage of this Website
In
new assault, Israel group's US front asks City of Los Angeles to sue
professor for criticizing Israel, by Ali
Abunimah, The
Electronic Intifada, June 12, 2012
In
blow to Zionist censors, California backs professor’s right to call for
Israel boycott on state university website, by Ali Abunimah, The
Electronic Intifada, June 5, 2012
CSU
study abroad program to Israel reinstated amid controversy, by
Laura Davis, Daily Sundial, May 7, 2012
Rossman-Benjamin:
A Good Example of the Low Academic Standards of US Zionist
Jewish-Holocaust Studies Departments, Tony Greenstein's blog, Feb.
2012
California
professor under attack for opposing "study in Israel" scheme, by
Nora Barrows-Friedman, The Electronic Intifada, Jan. 25, 2012
Israel
program back after safety concerns, by Kasia Hall, Daily 49er (CSU
Long Beach), Jan. 23, 2012
CSU
Students Protest Reinstated Israel Study Abroad Program, by Kashi
Khorasani, The Guardian (UCSD), Jan. 11, 2012
CSU
system debates restarting Israel study abroad programs, by Tom
Tugend, Jewish Journal, Jan. 4, 2012
The
‘Anti-Israel’ Charge, by James Joyner, Outside the Beltway, Jan. 1,
2012
Cal State’s
Chutzpah, by Bruce Kesler, City Journal, Dec. 29, 2011
CSUN Web page
called anti-Semitic, by Dana Bartholomew, Los Angeles Daily News,
Dec. 17, 2011
Politicization
of Study Abroad, by Elizabeth Redden, Inside Higher Ed, Dec. 5, 2011
Cal
State University’s Israel program under attack — again, JWeekly, by
Sue Fishkoff, Nov. 23, 2011
Hate
Mail
Hate Mail, Opposition, and
Expressions of Racism from Zionists in
Response to the Open Letter and this Site
Sample excerpts:
*"All Palestinians must be kicked
out of America
once and forever. PLO, Hammas, IJ, PFLP must be totally and
unconditionally exterminated to the last member."
*"Luckily, only those not bright enough to get into UC go to CSU, so
Klein's indoctrination goes only to the hireling class anyway; same for
the faculty. Perhaps some Irgun-legacy people can STERNLY speak with
the schmuck." (
web
source)
*"we will be working to expose what I consider to be one of the worst
forms of campus anti-Semitism in America today... It is difficult to
understand the logic in appointing an interim President who counts
himself among the haters of Jews and Israel and I advise Dr.
Hillenbrand to step down now due to his conflict of interest with
Jewish staff and students at Cal State."
*"Palestine is an invented nation and the Palestinians are an invented
people. Israel's response to terrorists threats is appropriate."
Ilan
Pappé's visit to California State University,
Northridge, February 20, 2012
Flyer
1 Flyer
2
Letter in support of
academic freedom for Ilan Pappé lecture tour
signed by three CSU presidents
State
University Hosts Israeli Historian Ilan Pappe - Says No to McCarthyite
Campaign, by Cecilie Surasky, Muzzle Watch (of Jewish Voice for
Peace) Feb. 18 2012
Anti-Palestinian
group fails to disrupt Ilan Pappe’s tour at California state
universities, by Nora Barrows-Friedman, The Electronic Intifada,
Feb. 18, 2012
Zionist
Attempts to Prevent Ilan Pappe Speaking at University of California Fail,
Tony Greenstein's Blog, Feb.
20, 2012
Rossman-Benjamin
- the Face of a Police State Academic, Tony Greenstein's Blog, Feb.
23, 2012
Photos,
Videos, and Audio Resources
Boycott
Songs, by Dave Lippman (listen online)
BBC - while eating
chocalate and chips, israeli soldiers
shot children
Estee
Chandler speaks about her efforts to bring about peace in Israel,
Video, Jan 2012
Extraordinary
Courage, 2 minute video
Gaza Villages
Wiped Off the Map, Video, 21 January 2009
Gaza University, photographs and video of the destruction
Ilan Pappe Describes Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine in 1948 (Nakba):
Video
Israel
killed medics, attacked ambulences and half of Gaza's hospitals,
Video from Guardian U.K., 23 March 2009
Israeli
settler makes threats
Naturei
Karta Rabbi Weiss on Fox News, August 2006
Norwegian
Doctor in Gaza, Video of hospital, patients, and bombing, 5 January
2009
Peace,
Propaganda, and the Promised Land: U.S. Media and the
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, a must-see Internet Documentary
Photographs of Chemical Warfare Victims of Israel
'Phosphorus
shells' hit Gaza UN school, Video narrated by John Ging, head of
the United Nations Relief and Works Agency
Rachel
Corrie: Photo Story of her Murder by Israel
Rachel
Corrie Interview, two days before she was killed, Youtube video
Rapture
Ready: The Christians United for Israel Tour
Soldiers
using rocks to break bones of Palestinian Prisoners
The
New Black by The Mavrix
Thousands
of Israelis protest against the war in Gaza
U.S.
Activists urge boycott of Israeli companies
White
Phosphorus Victim in Gaza, BBC Video
"Zionists
won't let you see this on your TV," includes narration by Richard
Falk and video of Rachel Corrie
The Zionist
Story, an independent film by Ronen Berelovich, is the story of
ethnic cleansing, colonialism and apartheid to produce a
demographically Jewish State.
Apartheid,
Ethnic Cleansing, "de-Arabisation," and Israel's "Demographic Problem"
Discriminatory
Laws in Israel,
Adalha
New
Discriminatory Laws and Bills in Israel, Issued June 2011, updated
October 2012,
Adalha
“Castrate
them!” “Burn them!” “Bullet in the head!”: Facebook Israelis react
to photo of Palestinian kids
The Electronic Intifada, 3/22/
2013
Israeli
corporal Ari Ben Reuven says: “break every bone” of crying Palestinian
boy seized on way to school
The Electronic Intifada, 3/24/
2013
Israeli
poll finds majority in favour of 'apartheid' policies: Two-thirds
say Palestinians should not be allowed to vote if West Bank was
annexed, while three in four favour segregated roads,
Guardian UK, Oct. 23, 2012
Survey:
Most Israeli Jews would support apartheid regime in Israel,
Haaretz, Oct. 23, 2012
"
Apartheid
without shame or guilt: We're racists, the Israelis are saying, we
practice apartheid and we even want to live in an apartheid state. Yes,
this is Israel." by Gideon Levy,
Haaretz,
Oct. 23, 2012
Israel's
prohibition of interracial sex (youtube)
How
to Criticize the Israeli Government: "The other day I tweeted an
article that reported on a rather horrible story. It seems that
the Israeli government gives African women drugs that keep them from
reproducing." December 2012
Arab
MK: Israel world's most racist state: "Israeli Arab Knesset members
slam results of Israel Democracy Institute's survey showing 62 percent
of Israelis want to encourage Arab emigration"
Ynet news, May 2006
It is Apartheid (
itISapartheid.org)
South
African academic study finds that Israel practices apartheid and
colonialism
Separate
and Unequal: Israel’s Discriminatory Treatment of Palestinians in
the Occupied Palestinian Territories,
A Report by Human Rights Watch, 2010
Rome
Statute of the International Criminal Court
General
Assembly: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human
rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967,
Richard Falk, August 30, 2010
The
Russell Tribunal "finds that Israel subjects the Palestinian people
to an institutionalised regime
of domination amounting to apartheid as defined under international
law," November, 2011
Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Jimmy Carter, Nelson Mandela, Desmond
Tutu, and Mairead Maguire describe Israel as an Apartheid State:
Carter;
Mandela;
Tutu;
Maguire
Israel's
law keeping Arab families apart, By Martin Linton, New Statesman
January 2012
Israel's
Marriage Law, by Justin Huggler,
Znet,
August 2002
How
to fight the Israel-Apartheid analogy in four easy steps – a guide for
useful Hasbara idiots, by Ran Greenstein, University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Targetting
Israeli Apartheid: A Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Handbook,
produced by
Corporate Watch
Eyewitness
to Israel's ethnic cleansing, by Bill Mullen,
Socialist Worker,
Jan. 24, 2012
Ethnic
Cleansing of Palestine
UN
Official: Israel Engaging in Ethnic Cleansing,
Ynetnews 3/21/11
Road Map
to Sustainable Ethnic Cleansing, by Edward Herman, July 2003
The
Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, by Ilan Pappe
Harvard
Fellow calls for genocidal measure to curb Palestinian births,
Electronic Intifada, 22
February 2010
Superflous
Young Men [referring to Palestinians], a blog by Martin Kramer
Ending
the West's Proxy War Against Israel: Stop funding a Palestinian youth
bulge, and the fighting will stop too, Gunnar Heinsohn,
Wall Street
Journal, 12 January 2009
Banned goods from Gaza, May 2010
included: toys, chocolate, musical instruments, sewing machines,
newspapers, various foods, and much else
Genocide
in Gaza, by Ilan Pappe,
The
Electronic Intifada, September 2006
Racism in Israeli School Books
Israeli
Textbooks and Children’s Literature Promote Racism and Hatred Toward
Palestinians and Arabs,
by Maureen Meeha, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, September
1999
Israeli
Racism: Death Camps and Text Books, by Stephen Lendman, The
Palestine Chronicle, January 2011
Academic
claims Israeli school textbooks contain bias: Nurit Peled-Elhanan
of Hebrew University says textbooks depict Palestinians as 'terrorists,
refugees and primitive farmers', Guardian UK, August 2011
Reports
on Palestinian kids’ hatred grossly exaggerated, by Len Traubman,
JWeekly.com, February 2004
Censorship
and Academic Freedom
The
full story behind the war against free speech in Israel’s universities,
by Jonathan Cook, Oct. 22, 2012
LA
professor "wakes up to hate mail" for linking to anti-Zionist material,
by Nora Barrows-Friedman The Electronic Intifada, August 2012
Silencing
pro-Palestinian speech on campus, by Remi Kanazi, Aljezeera, July
2012,
University
of California Takes Aim at Human Rights Activists, by Stephen
Zunes, Truthout, May 2012
Arab
Studies Quarterly, Special Issue: Academic Freedom, Ideological
Boundaries, and the Teaching of the Middle East, Vol. 33, Summer/Fall
2011
Confronting
intimidation, working for justice in Palestine, by Ilan Pappe,
The Electronic Intifada, December 2011
Gaza
children’s images of war censored under pressure from US Israel lobby,
by Nora Barrows-Friedman, The Electronic Intifada, September 2011
Pro-Israel
group monitoring, intimidating Columbia faculty, by Jared Malsin,
The Electronic Intifada, April 2010
Uphill
battle for academic freedom in US universities, by Nora
Barrows-Friedman, Electronic Intifada, January 2010
Terri
Ginsberg vs. Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina.
The case alleges a series of First Amendment speech violations by North
Carolina State University (NCSU) pertaining to Ginsberg’s scholarship
and teaching on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Marc Ellis: Please join Cornel West, Rosemary Ruether, and Archbishop
Desmond Tutu signing this
petition
Douglas
Giles, fired because he allowed students to ask questions about
Zionism: Politics and Palestinians at Roosevelt, Znet, August 2006
Joel Kovel,
Anti-Israel Prof Loses Post at Bard, Inside Higher Ed, February 2009
Academic
Freedom Threatened in Ontario Universities, by Margaret Aziza
Pappano
Committee to
Defend Academic Freedom at UCSB, the case of Prof. William I.
Robinson
Exposed:
University of Toronto suppresses pro-Palestinian activism
Ithaca
College professor denied tenure, article in The Chronicle of Higher
Education, 24 September 2008
Ithaca College faculty fight censorship of criticism of Israel
The
Question Of Palestine And The Subversion Of Academic Freedom: Depaul's
Denial Of Tenure To Norman G. Finkelstein, by Matthew Abraham, Arab
Studies Quarterly, Special Issue: Academic Freedom, Ideological
Boundaries, and the Teaching of the Middle East, Vol. 33, Nos. 3/4,
Fall 2011, pp. 179-203
Why is Norman Finkelstein Not
Allowed to Teach?, by David Klein, Works and Days 51/52 & 53/54
Academic Freedom and Intellectual Activism in the Post-9/11 University,
Vol. 26 & 27, 2008-09
A Word about Free Speech, by David Noble
The
Collapse of Academic Freedom in Israel: Tantura, Teddy Katz and
Haifa University, by Zalman Amit, Counterpunch, May 2005
Living
Title VI: A UC Santa Cruz Account, By Gal Beckerman, The Jewish
Daily Forward, February 23, 2012
Department
of Acceptable Truths, University of Toronto: a model for satire and
"responsible free speech" that does not criticize Israel
Other
Links
Amnesty
International Report 2012 Starved for Justice: Palestinians
Detained without Trial by Israel
Amnesty
International Annual Report 2011 on Israel and the Occupied
Palestinian Territories
Amnesty
International Report, 2009 Fuelling
conflict: Foreign arms supplies to Israel/Gaza
Amnesty
International Report on Israel's use of White Phosphorus in Gaza
Anna Baltzer's site:
A Witness in
Palestine
British
Committee for the Universities of Palestine
BOYCOTT!
Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call from Within: Palestinians,
Jews, Citizens of Israel, join the Palestinian call for a BDS Campaign
against Israel
Campaign to
End Israeli Apartheid--Southern California
Caterpillar
Company, article by Steven Zunes
Chomsky:
Undermining Gaza
Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions
Conference, University of Pennsylvania, 2012
Video
Archive
Electronic
Intifada
Enough.
It's time for a boycott, by Naomi Klein,
and
"Naomi Klein
Shows You Can Boycott Israel Without Cutting Off Dialogue Over
Palestine" by Cecilie Surasky
Global BDS Movement:
Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions for Palestine
In Defense
of Academic Boycotts: A Response to Martha Nussbaum, by
Mohammed Abed
Indian Campaign for
the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel
International
Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
Ilan
Pappé: the boycott will work, an Israeli perspective
Irish
Call for Boycott of Israel, a petition published in the Irish
Times, 31 January 2009, and signed by members of the Irish Parliment,
Irish Representatives to the European Union, professors, cultural
figures, and citizens
Israel
Wanted a Humanitarian Crisis, by Ben White
Jews
in Solidarity with Palestine
L.A. Jews for
Peace
Likud
Charter Does Not Recognize Palestine, by Frank Barat
NYACT: New Yorkers Against the Cornell-Technion Partnership
Palestinian Campaign
for the Boycott of Israel
Palestine
Solidarity Legal Support
Reigniting
Violence: How Do Ceasefires End?
Sommerville
Divestment Project
Support
of Israel must stop, by David Klein
The
Politics of an Israeli Extermination Campaign, by James Petras
US
Campaign to End the Occupation
U.S. Campaign
for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel
Who Profits? Exposing the Israeli Occupation Industry
Why
American academics must join boycott of Israel, by Rania Masri and
Marcy Newman
Zionism,
Anti-Semitism, and the People of Palestine, by Noel Ignatiev
