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The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) was launched in Ramallah in April 2004 by a group of Palestinian academics and intellectuals,[1] including Lisa Taraki and Omar Barghouti.[2]
PACBI is a member of The Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions Campaign National Committee (BNC).
History
The Campaign built on a call for an economic, cultural and academic boycott of Israel issued in August 2002 and a statement made by Palestinian academics and intellectuals in the occupied territories and in the Diaspora calling for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions in October 2003.
In 2005 PACBI worked closely with the British Committee for Universities of Palestine (BRICUP) which lobbied the Association of University Teachers (AUT) to adopt an academic boycott of Israeli universities.[3]
PACBI argues that "Israel's colonial oppression of the Palestinian people comprises:"
- Denial of its responsibility for the Nakba -- in particular the waves of ethnic cleansing and dispossession that created the Palestinian refugee problem—and therefore refusal to accept the inalienable rights of the refugees and displaced stipulated in and protected by international law;[4]
- Military occupation and colonization of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and Gaza since 1967, in violation of international law and UN resolutions;[4]
- The entrenched system of racial discrimination and segregation against the Palestinian citizens of Israel, which resembles the defunct apartheid system in South Africa to form an Israeli apartheid;[4]
PACBI's supporters believe that a boycott of Israeli academic and cultural institutions will contribute towards the dismantling of "Israel’s occupation, colonization and system of apartheid".[4]
Activities
In July 2009, (PACBI) led the call for the boycott of a proposed concert in Ramallah by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, which was later cancelled. PACBI opposed the concert because it would be held two days after Cohen performed in Israel. The organizer of the event, decided to cancel the concert in Ramallah because it was becoming too politicized.[5]
In February 2011, Mazin Qumsiyeh wrote an opinion piece for Al-Jazeerah that mentioned the PACBI-led boycott of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.[6]
See also
- Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
- Economic and political boycotts of Israel
- Academic boycotts of Israel
Notes
- ^ [1], PACBI website, accessed 20 February 2011.
- ^ Academic boycotter to study in Tel Aviv
- ^ Al Majdal, Issue No. 28 (Winter 2005).
- ^ a b c d Call of Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, PACBI website, accessed 27 May 2007.
- ^ Leonard Cohen's Ramallah gig called off by Rachelle Kliger, Jerusalem Post, July 13, 2009.
- ^ From Sykes-Picot to Mubarak-Suleiman