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Palestinian Campaign for the
Academic and Cultural Boycott (PACBI)
UPDATE No. 19

April 22, 2007
PACBI Press Release
Statement on Visits of International Delegations and Individuals to the OPT and Israel

At a time when the international movement to isolate Israel is gaining
ground in response to the escalation of Israel’s colonial and racist
policies, we respectfully urge conscientious academics, artists and
intellectuals from around the world, including those who visit the
occupied Palestinian territory (OPT), to refrain from visiting Israel to
participate in any event or encounter that is not explicitly dedicated to
ending Israel’s illegal occupation and other forms of oppression. Regardless of intentions, such visits only contribute to the prolongation of injustice by normalizing and thereby legitimizing it, and inadvertently support Israel’s efforts to appear as a “normal” participant in the
“civilized” world of science, scholarship and art while at the
same time practicing a pernicious form of apartheid against Palestinians.

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Calls for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions

Physicians Call for a Boycott of the Israeli Medical Association and its
expulsion from the World Medical Association | Guardian | April 21, 2007

In a letter appearing in the Guardian on April 21, 2007, prominent
UK physicians have called for a boycott of the IMA and its expulsion from
the WMA. The letter follows: ...

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Norwegian Socialist Left Party renews support for BDS
Socialist Left Party |

The Socialist Left Party (SV), one of three parties in the Norwegian
Government, has renewed its support for sanctions against Israel. The
Party’s Congress adopted 25th of March unanimously a resolution named
“Sanctions against the Occupier - not the occupied.”

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NUJ votes to boycott Israeli goods

Stephen Brook | The Guardian | April 13, 2007

The National Union of Journalists has voted at its annual meeting for
a boycott of Israeli goods as part of a protest against last year’s war in
Lebanon

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Jews for Boycotting Israel: A New Initiative

Ruth Tenne | The Palestine Chronicle | April 2, 2007

The latest report of the International Development Select Committee
regarding the Occupied Palestinian Territories (31 January 2007) makes for very distressing reading. In its section on trade, it refers to the
ongoing restrictions in movements and access faced by the OPT, citing an
OXFAM report which points out "that transaction costs for
Palestinians wishing to export products are up to 70% higher than for
Israelis exporting the same product. This market benefit is also true of
products produced by Israeli settlers in the West Bank who can get direct access to markets in or through Israel without the disruptive road blocks and back-to-back transfers faced by the Palestinians.

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Cultural Boycott

Letter from PACBI to the Irish Academy of Artists (Aosdana)

PACBI | April 22, 2007

To the Members of Aosdna,

The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott (PACBI)
would like to thank Aosdna and its members for their adoption of a
recent motion ...

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Palestine motion passed at AGM of Artists’ Academy

Raymond Deane | Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign | March
28, 2007
At its Annual General Assembly in the Irish Museum of Modern Art (28
March 2007) the Irish state-sponsored academy of artists, Aosdna,
debated two motions concerning Palestine presented by Margaretta D’Arcy, playwright and veteran political activist, and the composer Raymond Deane - who was a founding-member and former chairperson of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

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Call to ’reflect’ on Israeli links
Shane Hegarty | The Irish Times | March 29, 2007

Aosdna’s general assembly yesterday passed a motion that
encourages “Irish artists and cultural institutions to reflect
deeply” before engaging in co-operation with state-sponsored Israeli
cultural events and institutions.

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Israeli Academic Complicity

Court allows Haifa University to continue contentious dorm policy
Tamara Traubmann | Haaretz | April 11, 2007

The High Court of Justice ruled Tuesday that Haifa University would
be allowed to continue its policy of giving preference to Israel Defense
Forces veterans in its dormitory application process, a policy which some
consider discriminatory against Arab students. ...more

Articles, Opinion and Editorials

’Marriage to an Arab is national treason’Roee Nahmias | YNet News | March 27, 2007

Over half of the Jewish population in Israel believes the marriage of
a Jewish woman to an Arab man is equal to national treason, according to a recent survey by the Geocartography Institute.

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An overdue yellow card
Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi | The Guardian | March 26, 2007

I acknowledge Alex Stein’s plea for understanding and engaging with
Israel without demonising it. However, I believe that the treatment meted out to Palestinian footballers detailed by Ismail Patel cannot be ignored if Israel wants to be treated as - in Alex’s words - “a country like
any other”.

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A boycott by any other name ...
James Bowen | Haaretz | April 13, 2007

In the late 19th century, changes in Ottoman law created a new class
of large landholders, including the Sursuq family from Beirut, which
acquired large tracts in northern Palestine. A similar situation had long
existed in Ireland, where most land was controlled by absentee landlords, many of whom lived in Britain. ...more

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