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Whereas Israel’s colonial oppression of the Palestinian people, which is
based on Zionist ideology, comprises the following:
• 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;
• Military occupation and colonization of the West Bank (including East
Jerusalem) and Gaza since 1967, in violation of international law and UN
resolutions;
• The entrenched system of racial discrimination and segregation against the
Palestinian citizens of Israel, which resembles the defunct apartheid system
in South Africa;
Since Israeli academic institutions (mostly state controlled) and the vast
majority of Israeli intellectuals and academics have either contributed
directly to maintaining, defending or otherwise justifying the above forms
of oppression, or have been complicit in them through their silence,
Given that all forms of international intervention have until now failed to
force Israel to comply with international law or to end its repression of
the Palestinians, which has manifested itself in many forms, including
siege, indiscriminate killing, wanton destruction and the racist colonial
wall,
In view of the fact that people of conscience in the international community
of scholars and intellectuals have historically shouldered the moral
responsibility to fight injustice, as exemplified in their struggle to
abolish apartheid in South Africa through diverse forms of boycott,
Recognizing that the growing international boycott movement against Israel
has expressed the need for a Palestinian frame of reference outlining
guiding principles,
In the spirit of international solidarity, moral consistency and resistance
to injustice and oppression,
We, Palestinian academics and intellectuals, call upon our colleagues in the
international community to comprehensively and consistently boycott all
Israeli academic and cultural institutions as a contribution to the struggle
to end Israel’s occupation, colonization and system of apartheid, by
applying the following:
1. Refrain from participation in any form of academic and cultural
cooperation, collaboration or joint projects with Israeli institutions;
2. Advocate a comprehensive boycott of Israeli institutions at the national
and international levels, including suspension of all forms of funding and
subsidies to these institutions;
3. Promote divestment and disinvestment from Israel by international
academic institutions;
4. Work toward the condemnation of Israeli policies by pressing for
resolutions to be adopted by academic, professional and cultural
associations and organizations;
5. Support Palestinian academic and cultural institutions directly without
requiring them to partner with Israeli counterparts as an explicit or
implicit condition for such support.
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
(PACBI)
April 2006. | 
