Successes in the Academic Boycott

This page lists successes in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign by academic and educational organisations, including education-related unions, and successes in the boycott of Israeli academic institutions complicit in the abuse of the human rights of Palestinians. For more information on what is included on this page see the note at the bottom of this page. Please note this page is currently only up to date to March 2016.

Active Campaigns (as of March 2016)

Academics for Palestine – Irish Academics’ Pledge to Boycott Israel
American Studies Association – Endorsers of American Studies Association academic boycott resolution and news of other academic boycott successes.
American Studies Association – Caucus on Academic and Community Activism: Academic and Cultural Boycott Campaign
Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions – Anthropologists’ Statement Supporting the Boycott of Israeli Institutions
Association of Academics for the Respect of International Law in Palestine (main site in French, but also have English pages) – Signatories
BDS Académico por Palestina (main site in Spanish, this is the English page) – Universities and Israeli apartheid: let’s put an end to the complicity: Open letter. An update from September 2014 is here.
Belgian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel – Academic Signatories
The British Committee for Universities in Palestine – Signatories to A Statement of Determination to Boycott Israel
British National Union of Students Officers and student leaders and activists from British colleges and universities- British students stand with Gaza against Israel’s assault
British Writers In Support of Palestine – Manifesto and Open Letter
Campus Faculty Association of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) – A Call to People of Conscience Not to Speak at the University Of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Until Chancellor Wise Honor the Contract to Hire Professor Steven Salaita (also see here.
Rima Merriman on Change.org – We demand corrective action on the scandalous firing of Palestinian-American professor, Dr. Steven Salaita
Columbia University Faculty – Columbia University in the City of New York Faculty Petition
Indian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel – Members
Italian Campaign for the Revocation of Agreements with Technion – Signatories
Jewish Voice for Peace – Academic Freedom: Documents and statements related to opposition to anti-boycott bills in the US
Jewish Voice for Peace – Time To Choose–Words or Action
Labor for Palestine (U.S.) – Growing Support for Labor for Palestine Statement: Stop the War on Gaza: No Arms for Apartheid Israel — Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions!
McGill University alumni BDS – McGill alumni support BDS
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine – The MLA and the Movement for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions: Open Letter Signatures
National Students for Justice in Palestine, US – Endorsements
National Tertiary Education Union Members for BDS, Australia – List of Signatories
New Yorkers Against the Cornell-Technion Partnership – See the Sign our Petition link on the right side of the page
Philosophers and political theorists for a boycott of Israel – Statement and Signatories
Stanford Out of Occupied Palestine – Divestment Petition Signatories
UK Scholars – A Commitment by UK Scholars to Human Rights in Palestine: The signatories
US Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel – Endorsements from Colleagues at American Institutions

Academic Boycott Successes by Year

Please note: this page is currently only up to date to March 2016

2014:

December 2014, John Mahoney, Montreal Gazette – Concordia undergrad students vote in favour of Israel boycott. Also see here.
December 2014, Kamara Swaby, The Crimson – Harvard University Dining Services Suspends Purchases from Israeli Soda Company
December 2014, Wesleyan SJP, National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) – Sabra Boycott Success on Campus
December 2014, Elizabeth Redden, Inside Higher Ed –BDS Movement Survives Challenge: Anthropologists reject a resolution opposing the academic boycott of Israel. As of the date when that motion was rejected, conference, over 1000 anthropologists had signed a statement supporting the academic boycott
December 2014, Scholars for Israel and Palestine – Israel: A Time for Personal Sanctions. Also see report from Haaretz: Anti-BDS academics urge ‘personal’ sanctions against ‘annexationist’ Israelis
December 2014, UAW 2865 (union representing Academic Student Employees of the University of California) – 2014 BDS Vote
December 2014, Princeton Committee on Palestine – Petition: Princeton divests: we, the undersigned members of the Princeton University community, stand up for human rights in the west bank and Gaza. Also see the Princeton Alumni Petition and the Princeton University Community Petition
December 2014, UK Student Palestine Solidarity – Swansea University – BDS Passed at Student Forum December 2014
November 2014, National Women’s Studies Association members. See the article: David Palumbo-Liu, the Nation – Breaking Taboos, BDS Gains Ground Among Academics and also see: Feminists for Justice in Palestine and NWSA Statements: Solidarity Statement, January 19, 2015
November 2014, Peace and Justice Studies Association – Peace and Justice Studies Association votes to endorse the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign
November 2014, University of California Los Angeles – UCLA student government passes Israel divestment resolution
November 2014, Open letter from tenured Princeton professors – Divestment Open Letter: An Invitation to Tenured Faculty at Princeton. An updated list of including 70 tenured faculty and 500 undergraduate students signatories is here.
November 2014, Haaretz – Leading Mideast studies group allows members to support BDS. Also see this article with update on Mondoweiss
November 2014, Middle East Studies Association (MESA) – MESA affirms its members’ right to boycott Israeli academic institutions
October 2014, Association of Academics for the Respect of International Law in Palestine – Petition to oppose the agreement between the École Polytechnique and the Technion. Signatories are listed here.
October 2014, Alurdun Tuqate’ (Jordan BDS Movement), bdsmovement.net – Jordan civil society demands boycott of Israel
October 2014, George Bowden, kingdombrunel.com – In-depth: Brunel’s student union votes for anti-Israeli policy. Also see updates here and here.
October 2014, United States Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel – Artists and Intellectuals Including Junot Díaz, Chuck D, and Boots Riley Call for Boycott and Divestment from Israel
October 2014, Editor, Redress Information & Analysis – UK’s Exeter University students in historic landslide vote to boycott Israel
October 2014, Batya Ungar-Sargon, Jewish Telegraphic Agency – After rejecting BDS ban, Open Hillel holds first conference
September 2014, John Pilger, On Line Opinion – Breaking the last taboo: Gaza and the threat of world war
September 2014, Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call from Within – From Israeli citizens – please do not collaborate with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call from Within signatories are listed here.)
September 2014, Academics for Palestine – Irish Academics’ Pledge to Boycott Israel. Also see an earlier report here from TheJournal.ie.
September 2014, African National Congress – Statement of the ANC National Executive Committee following meeting held 19-21 September 2014
August 2014, Jewish Current and Former Officers and Members of UAW 2865 (union representing Academic Student Employees of the University of California) – Open Letter from Jewish Officers and Members in Support of Divestment
August 2014, Troy Neves, United Students Against Sweatshops – Students kept busy at USAS Summer Convention: U nited Students Against Sweatshops endorses BDS
August 2014, The Canadian Press – Ontario university students unions vote to join boycott against Israel
August 2014, Times of Israel staff, Times of Israel – Britain’s National Union of Students approves BDS
August 2014, Middle East Monitor – University of Cape Town SRC endorses boycott of Israel, declares it an apartheid state
August 2014, The Institute of Women’s Studies at Birzeit University – Institute of Women’s Studies issues urgent call to adopt BDS
August 2014, Association of Academics for the Respect of International Law in Palestine and British Committee for the Universities of Palestine – Letter from BRICUP and AURDIP to the Chancellor of UIUC
August 2014, International scholars and librarians working on the Middle East – Middle East Scholars and Librarians Call for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions [Update: The statement has now been signed by over 600 scholars and librarians.]
August 2014, Current and former Jewish officers and members of UAW 2865 (union representing Academic Student Employees of the University of California) – Open Letter from Jewish Officers and Members in Support of Divestment
August 2014, Labor for Palestine (U.S.) – Growing Support for Labor for Palestine Statement: Stop the War on Gaza: No Arms for Apartheid Israel — Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions! (signatories as of August 4, 2014)
July 2014, The Palestinian trade union movement and the Congress of South African Trade Unions, bdsmovement.net – Stand with Palestinian workers in Gaza: a call for trade union solidarity
July 2014, International Nobel Peace Prize laureates, academics, and other public figures –Open Letter: The arms trade and Israel’s attack on Gaza
July 2014, Sarah Irving, The Electronic Intifada – “The state is guilty of war crimes”: Scotland’s national poet endorses Israel boycott
July 2014, National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) Sydney University Branch – NTEU Sydney University statement on Gaza
July 2014, Australians for BDS – Defend free speech and human rights and support the BDS
July 2014, Jerry Lewis, Jerusalem Post – UK’s largest union backs boycott of Israel despite Labor’s calls to refrain
July 2014, Critical Ethnic Studies Association – CESA Passes Resolution on BDS
July 2014, Victorian College of the Arts Student Association – Victorian College of the Arts students vote to boycott Israeli apartheid
July 2014, Queensland Teachers’ Union State Council makes statement on Gaza – Statement on Gaza (including reaffirmation of support of BDS)
July 2014, Michael Safi and Helen Davidson, the Guardian – Israeli legal centre abandons lawsuit against Sydney academic
July 2014, Middle East Media Monitor – Israeli universities establish committee to fight “growing” BDS campaign
June 2014, Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel – International Keynote speakers at two Israeli conferences withdraw in reaction to BDS calls!
June 2014, International academics – Boycott Israeli Cinema and TV Studies Conference at Tel Aviv University: see this link for list of endorsers and other news
June 2014, US Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel – Press Release: USACBI Announces Over 500 Academics Have Endorsed the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
June 2014, International artists, academics and writers, The Guardian – G4S must end its complicity in Israel’s abuse of child prisoners
June 2014, Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel – PACBI Salutes Spain’s Growing Academic Boycott Movement
June 2014, Alex Kane, Mondoweiss – BDS activists slam art groups for taking tour to IDF-linked Technion
May 2014, Helsinki University Researchers’ and Teachers’ Association and other University of Helsinki staff publish petition requesting the university administration terminate cooperation with G4S. See: HYY supports the petition of the staff: Security company G4S out of the university
May 2014, Tom Anderson and Therezia Cooper, Corporate Watch Trade – Unions join protest against SodaStream
May 2014, Ean Higgins, The Australian – Shurat HaDin narrows its target in Jake Lynch standoff
May 2014, Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, Wesleyan student fund bars investment in Israeli-occupation profiteers
May 2014, Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada – DePaul students vote for divestment despite Israeli government interference
May 2014, JTA, Haaretz – DePaul students vote in favor of Israel divestment
May 2014, Middle East Monitor – NUS Black Students conference endorses BDS, slams Israeli ‘systemic’ racism
May 2014, CUPE Ontario – CUPE Ontario delegates vote unanimously to support BDS. CUPE Ontario also passed a BDS motion in May 2006.
May 2014, Michael Deas, The Electronic Intifada – Activists force Catalan authorities to scrutinize academic collaboration with Israel
May 2014, BDS Académico por Palestina – 1400 academics and university workers in Spain sign onto the academic boycott (in Spanish)
March 2014, Polly Curtis, The Guardian – Academic boycott of Israel gathers momentum: Nearly 300 academics publish open letter calling for leaders of Israeli universities to reveal whether they support the government’s policies towards Palestinians. See the full text of the letter here.
March 2014, University of Massachusetts Boston – Faculty, staff and students support the American Studies Association’s resolution to join the boycott of Israeli academic institutions
April 2014, SUD-Recherche – French unions condemns collaboration with Israeli agriculture
April 2014, University of South Florida’s Students for Justice in Palestine – Largest student petition in state history calls for University of South Florida divestment: More than 10,000 University of South Florida students call for divestment from corporations complicit in Israeli occupation and human rights violations
April 2014, African Literature Association – BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions): The ALA supports the Academic Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions
April 2014, Nora Barrows-Friedman, The Electronic Intifada – Graduate students vote to divest at University of New Mexico
April 2014, Nora Barrows-Friedman, The Electronic Intifada – Divestment passes at University of California at Riverside
April 2014, American Studies Association, Mondoweiss – American Studies Association adds over 700 new members since Israel boycott call
April 2014, JTA, The Times of Israel – Ryerson University student union votes to join BDS
April 2014, Ben White, Middle East Monitor – Europe’s largest teachers’ union endorses Israel boycott call
April 2014, Historians Against the War – HAW Proposes Work on Israel/Palestine and BDS
April 2014, UK-Palestine Mental Health Network – Launch Meeting of the UK-Palestine Mental Health Network
March 2014, Confédération Générale du Travail- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (National Trade Union CGT-INRA) – Visit of the INRA Head to Israel
March 2014, Muslim Students’ Association of South Africa – Statement: Muslim Students’ Association supports Israeli Apartheid Week
March 2014, National Education Health and Allied Workers Union – NEHAWU lauds the ANC for publicly affirming its support for the Palestinian struggle
March 2014, Judith Butler and Rashid Khalidi – Scholars condemn censorship and intimidation of Israel critics
March 2014, European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine – European trade union network supports BDS
March 2014, Barnard College and Columbia University faculty – Barnard and Columbia Faculty to hold Press Conference Calling for Divestment
March 2014, Michael Deas – Boycott campaigns cost G4S two university contracts
March 2014, Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) – RIBA votes to suspend Israeli architects’ association from international body
March 2014, Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) – RIAS votes to suspend Israeli architects’ association
March 2014, American Studies Association – Boycott Israeli Cinema and TV Studies Conference at Tel Aviv University
March 2014, Alex Kane, Mondoweiss – BDS’ big night: Loyola student government passes divestment, U. Mich votes it down
March 2014, Jon Liedtke, The Urbanite – UWindsor becomes first university in Canada to approve BDS through undergraduate referendum
March 2014, Irish Palestine Solidarity Campaign – Victory in Galway as NUIG Students’ Union votes to join BDS movement
March 2014, Samantha Craggs, CBC News, McMaster students support Israel boycott in tense meeting
March 2014, University of Dundee in Scotland Student Union – Scottish students say “yes” to boycotting Israel
March 2014, Kings College London, Ynet News – Kings College London student union endorses boycott of Israel
March 2014, UMass Boston Faculty and Staff – Statement in Support of Academic Boycott of Israel
February 2014, Michael Deas, The Electronic Intifada – UK student union (Kent) to cancel G4S contract over role in Israeli prisons
February 2014, Vassar College faculty – Open letter in defense of academic freedom in Palestine/Israel and in the United States
February 2014, Steffanie Pinch, rabble.ca – Five successes of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement
February 2014, US academics, U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel – An Open Letter of Support for Student Union for Representation and Justice
February 2014, Adam Horowitz, Mondoweiss – University of Hawai’i faculty responds to administration’s condemnation of ASA boycott resolution
February 2014, Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada – 140 Irish academics pledge to boycott Israeli institutions
January 2014, A Group of Faculty Concerned about Appeals to ‘Academic Freedom’ in the Boycott Campaign against Israeli Institutions, The California Aggie – Opposing the Opposition to the Boycott
January 2014, Nora Barrows-Friedman, The Electronic Intifada – Angela Davis: “support BDS, and Palestine will be free”
January 2014, Faculty at Trinity College, Jadaliyya – Open Letter to Trinity College President and Dean
January 2014, Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher ED – Modern Languages Association: Taking Israel to Task
January 2014, Bill Mullen, American Studies Association – Caucus on Academic and Community Activism: Academic and Cultural Boycott Campaign
January 2014, Elizabeth Redden, Inside Higher ED – Inside Higher Ed: Israel boycott row intensifies
January 2014, Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada – Palestinian, Arab American scholars back ASA’s Israel boycott, condemn “intimidation”
January 2014, US Green Party – Green Party of the U.S. defends American Studies Association’s endorsement of boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) to press Israel on human rights
January 2014, Arab American Studies Association (AASA) – Arab American Studies Association (AASA) Supports ASA academic boycott of Israel
January 2014, Modern Language Association (MLA) – the MLA passes a resolution urging the United States Department of State to contest Israel’s denials of entry to the West Bank by United States academics

2013:

December 2013, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) – Declaration of support for the boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions. Also see here: Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada – Major Indigenous studies group endorses Israel boycott
December 2013, Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada – ASA membership votes to boycott Israel by landslide
December 2013, Critical Ethnic Studies Association – CESA letter of support to the American Studies Association, Palestinian call for boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions
December 2013, bdsmovement.net – The Belgian French-speaking Students Association adopts BDS
December 2013, Campaign to Boycott the Oral History Conference at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Alternative Information Centre – BDS: Hebrew U conference dealt two blows
November 2013, Sitvas/The Independent Left, University of Helsinki – Student Union of the University of Helsinki rejects Supporting Illegal Settlements. Also see here.
November 2013, We Divest Coalition, Mondoweiss – Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association – College Retirement Equities Fund removes Veolia from Social Choice Fund
November 2013, Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada – Eminent academics to EU: Don’t sell out on Israeli settlements
November 2013, Micheal Deas, The Electronic Intifada – Boycott campaign costs G4S two university contracts
October 2013, Jeff Handmaker, bdsmovement.net – Well-attended BDS conference organised by the Dutch Trade Unions and NGOs in Utrecht
October 2013, Association for Humanist Sociology – The AHS Votes to Support the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
October 2013, University of Hawai’i Ethnic Studies Department, PACBI – University of Hawai’i Ethnic Studies Department Letter of Endorsement of the BDS
September 2013, European Coordination of Committees for Palestine, bdsmovement.net – 600 Israeli intellectuals send letter in support of EU settlement guidelines
September, 2013, US Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel – Do Not Apply: Open Letter Campaign to Boycott Hebrew University (boycott of Department of Communication and Journalism Assistant Professor position opening)
September 2013, British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP) and Association des Universitaires pour le Respect du Droit International en Palestine (AURDIP), bdsmovement.net – Over 500 academics call on EU not to water down new Israeli settlement guidelines
August 2013, International academics boycott of the Hebrew University – Campaign to boycott the Oral History Conference at Hebrew University of Jerusalem
July 2013, University of Oslo, bdsmovement.net – University of Oslo ends G4S contract over support for Israeli apartheid
July, 2013, Asaf Siniver, The Conversation – EU ban on Israeli settlements could be a game changer
May 2013, Michael Deas, The Electronic Intifada – Sheffield University dumps Veolia, capping successful year for UK student Palestine movement
May 2013, Harriet Sherwood and Matthew Kalman, The Guardian – Stephen Hawking joins academic boycott of Israel
May 2013, Nora Barrows-Friedman, The Electronic Intifada – Oberlin College student senate passes divestment resolution, targets six companies
April 2013, Faculty 4 Palestine, bdsmovement.net – University of Toronto Scarborough Students’ Union (SCSU) endorses BDS!
April 2013, Jonny Paul, Jersusalem Post – Irish teachers union adopts full boycott of Israel. See here for the full motion.
April 2013, Alex Kane, Mondoweiss – Columbia faculty and students press retirement fund to divest from Israeli army-linked corporations
April 2013, Hichem Maafi, IndyMedia UK – Sussex University Students vote in favour of Boycott of Israeli Goods and Veolia
April 2013, Australian Students for Justice in Palestine, Green Left Weekly – Sydney uni Student Representative Council endorses academic boycott of Israel
April 2013, Belgian French-speaking students Federation (FEF) – The FEF (Belgian French-speaking students Federation) calls for a freeze of all academic partnerships with Israel!
April 2013, University of California at Berkley, bdsmovement.net – UC Berkley student senate passes divestment bill. Note that an earlier divestment resolution was passed by the Berkeley’s Student Senate in 2010 but was vetoed by the student president.
April 2013, Barnard and Columbia faculty, Wedivest.org – Barnard and Columbia faculty hold press conference calling for divestment
April 2013, Elizabeth Redden, Inside Higher ED – Asian American Studies Association endorses boycott Israeli universities. See full text of the resolution here.
April 2013, Asa Winstanley, The Electronic Intifada – Irish academics’ union votes to “cease all cultural and academic collaboration with Israel”
April 2013, Alex Kane, Mondoweiss – Columbia faculty and students press retirement fund to divest from Israeli army-linked corporations
March 2013, York Federation of Students, The Electronic Intifada – Boycott resolution passed by York University’s undergraduate student union
March 2013, BRICUP, bdsmovement.net – UK academic union’s right to boycott Israel upheld by employment tribunal
March 2013, Judith Butler and Rashid Khalidi, Haaretz – Scholars launch petition against censorship of Israeli critics
March 2013, Students for Palestine Australia – Australian student union drops SodaStream competition
March 2013, Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada – After hard-fought battle, students celebrate divestment vote victory at UC San Diego
February 2013, Elad Benari, Arutz Sheva – Students at Toronto Mississauga University Pass BDS Motion. The date of the vote is show in this media release by “Students Against Israeli Apartheid” at University of Toronto Mississauga
February 2013, Dundee University Action Palestine – Dundee University Students’ Association votes to cut ties with G4S
February 2013, Michael Deas, The Electronic Intifada – UK student union to cancel G4S contract over role in Israeli prisons
January 2013, Concordia Graduate Students’ Association – Press Release Regarding General Assembly decision to endorse BDS Campaign
November 2013, Michael Deas, The Electronic Intifada – Second Norwegian university drops G4S over support for Israeli apartheid

2012:

December 2012, Elad Benari, Arutz Sheva – Toronto Graduate University Students Vote to Endorse BDS
December 2012, The Electronic Intifada – South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress, adopts BDS as its official policy
November 2012, Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada – UC Irvine votes unanimously to disinvest from companies that profit from the Israeli occupation
November 2012, The Technical University of Denmark (DTU), DanWatch – DTU stops colloboration with Ariel University
November 2012, BDS South Africa, bdsmovement.net – Major boycott of Israel victory as Public Services International congress adopts boycott resolution
November 2012, Adam Horowitz, Mondoweiss – Brown Univ committee recommends considering divestment from companies that profit from Israeli occupation
September 2012, University of California Student Association, Mondoweiss – Resolution: UC Student Association opposes all racism, whether anti-Semitism on campus or racism of Israeli human rights violations (includes a section supporting BDS)
September 2012, listed by the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation – Swarthmore College Deshelves Sabra Following Student Petition
September 2012, BDS Earlham – In Response to Student and Faculty Concerns, Earlham College’s Dining Services Decides to Stop Selling Sabra Products
August 2012, Witwatersrand University Student Representative Council, BDS South Africa – South Africa’s Wits University student council unanimously passes boycott of Israel resolution
July 2012, Indian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel – INCACBI Appeal to Academics: Boycott Collaboration with Israeli Academic Institutions at the Indo-Global Education Summit & Expo 2012, Hyderabad, September 7-9, 2012
June 2012, Arizona State University, sjpalestine.com – Arizona State University Student Government votes to divest from Israel
June 2012, Adam Horowitz, Mondoweiss – BDS victory: TIAA-CREF drops Caterpillar from social choice funds
June 2012, The Evergreen State College Divest! – Student-Run Cafe at The Evergreen State College Announces Boycott of Israeli Products
May 2012, Vina Tran, Columbia University Gender & Sexuality Law Blog – Professor Katherine Franke joins academic boycott of Israeli-government sponsored conference
April 2012, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), University of Massachusetts Boston, bdsmovement.net – UMASS Boston sudent senate passes resolution calling for divestment from Boeing
March 2012, Movimiento Estudiantil ChÃican@ de Aztlán – National MEChA Endorses Palestinian Boycott Call Against Israel
March 2012, Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada – In Canadian first, Carleton University students pass Israel occupation divestment resolution by large margin
February 2012, Regina Solidarity Group – University of Regina students (Canada) joins BDS movement
January 2012, Nadine Darwish, The Electronic Intifada – I saw Sabra hummus for sale at my high school cafeteria and decided to act
January 2012, Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada – Noted French threorist Jacques Ranciere cancels Israel lecture, heading boycott call

2011:

November 2011, Californian State University (CSU) staff and students – An Open Letter to CSU Chancellor Charles Reed Regarding the CSU-Israel Study Abroad Program
October 2011, Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada – Edinburgh University students vote to ban G4S
October 2011, Nora Barrows-Friedman, The Electronic Intifada – Swedes call for academic boycott of Israel. Also see the official press release from KTH Action Group for Boycott of Israel. Note their website is now: www.psabi.se
October 2011, Palestinian academics, students and civil society organisations, bdsmovement.net – Don’t Collaborate with Apartheid – A call from Palestinian civil society on European universities, academics, students and people of conscience
October 2011, Cambridge Bin Veolia, bdsmovement.net – Cambridge University students vote to break contract with Veolia
August 2011, South African Union of Students, South African Student Congress and the Young Communist League of South Africa – Joint Student Statement: There is no doubt, Israel is an Apartheid state; There is only one word, boycott!
July 2011, al-Qaws for Sexual & Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society and Palestinian Queers for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions – International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Youth and Student Organisation (IGLYO) moves out of Israel!

July 2011, Annie Robbins, Mondoweiss – ‘Shocked’ by tour of occupation, 11 feminists led by Angela Davis ‘unequivocally’ support BDS
May 2011, Sami Kishawi, The Electronic Intifada – DePaul vote on Sabra hummus a victory for human rights
June 2011, National Campus and Community Radio Association, bdsmovement.net- National Campus and Community Radio Association of Canada joins BDS movement. See the full resolution here.
May 2011, University and College Union – University and College Union (UCU) in the United Kingdom Passes Key Motions
May 2011, Cornel West, bdsmovement.net – Dr. Cornel West endorses BDS, supports Ethnic Studies at University of Arizona
April 2011, The St. Louis Palestine Solidarity Committee, Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel – Washington University Hip-Hop Program Revokes Invitation to Israeli Cultural Ambassador
April 2011, South African Students Congress (SASCO), Gauteng Province – Press Release: Apartheid agents not welcome on our campuses
March 2011, Students for Justice in Palestine (Edinburgh University), bdsmovement.net – Edinburgh University students vote overwhelmingly for boycott of Israeli goods
March 2011, UJpetition.com, bdsmovement.net – University of Johannesburg ends Israeli links. (Also see an update here.)
March 2011, London School of Economics Palestine Society, bdsmovement.net – London School of Economics joins boycott of Eden Springs. Also see here.

2010:

September 2010, Victorian Trades Hall Council – Resolution passed 10 September 2010
September 2010, Archbishop Desmond Tutu – Israeli ties: a chance to do the right thing
September 2010, the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the Committee for Solidarity with Palestine, the All India Peace and Solidarity Organization, and the Indian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, pacbi.org – Resolution passed calling on the Indian government to support BDS
November 2010, Queensland Council of Unions (QCU) – Queensland Council of Unions motion shows support for BDSIndian academics, intellectuals and artists
October 2010, EPACBI, pacbi.org – European Platform for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (EPACBI) brings boycott movement to a higher level in Europe
August 2010, Chaim Levinson and Or Kashti, Haaretz – 150 Israeli academics, artists back actors’ boycott of settlement arts center
July 2010, Basque Trade Unions alliance, bdsmovement.net – Basque trade unions BDS manifesto
July 2010, Indian academics, intellectuals, and artists, Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel – Indian call for the academic & cultural boycott of Israel
July 2010, Queensland Teachers’ Union – Queensland Teachers’ Union support for BDS Call
June 2010, The Evergreen State College Divest!, The Electronic Intifada – Evergreen State students overwhelmingly pass divestment votes
June 2010, Federal congress of the Centrale Generale/ABVV Algemene Centrale (Belgium), bdsmovement.net – Belgian Trade Union Federation adopts boycott
June 2010, South African Municipal Workers Union, bdsmovement.net – South Africa: SAMWU declares, every municipality an apartheid free zone!
June 2010, NSW Teachers Federation – Union meeting report on Gaza blockade and attack on aid Flotilla
June 2010, Australian Education Union – Union meeting report on Gaza blockade and attack on aid Flotilla
June 2010, Geelong Trades Hall – Geelong Trades Hall Council (VIC) passes resolution on Gaza
June 2010, Newcastle Trades Hall Council – Newcastle Trades Hall Council Motion on Gaza Peace Flotilla
June 2010, South Coast Labour Council – Resolution 2 June 2010 – Adopted Unanimously
June 2010, The Electronic Intifada – Evergreen State students overwhelmingly pass divestment votes
June 2010, UnionsACT – UnionsACT Executive Committee motion to support BDS
June 2010, US Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel – Nursing School of the University of Valladolid removes bottled water sold by Eden Springs Ltd
Spring 2010, TESC DIVEST – Evergreen State College Student Body votes for divestment from companies involved in Israeli occupation
May 2010, University and College Union, pacbi.org – British academic union severs links with Histradrut, boycotts Ariel College
April 2010, Adam Horowitz, Mondoweiss – Judith Butler joins Chomsky, Tutu, Klein and a growing chorus worldwide in support of Berkeley divestment

2009:

Late 2009, CSU Students Protest Reinstated Israel Study Abroad Program (see reference to the letter with 389 signatories in the middle of this article)
December 2009, United States Campaign for an Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, Mondoweiss – Another legacy of ‘Operation Cast Lead’: 500+ US-based academics, authors & artists endorse the academic and cultural boycott of Israel
November 2009, Bec Zajac, The Brooklyn Rail – Israel/Palestine and the Re-education of Sarah Schulman: Prominent intellectual Sarah Schulman boycotts Lesbian and Gay Studies conference at Tel Aviv
October 2009, University of Sussex Students’ Union, The Electronic Intifada – Sussex University students vote to boycott Israeli goods
September 2009, The University Center of Ariel in Samaria (AUCS), bdsmovement.net – Spain excludes settlement university from academic competition
September 2009, British Trades Union Congress (TUC) – General Council statement on the Middle East
July 2009, Unite union, New Zealand – Resolution on Palestine adopted by Unite Union (motion is posted below the protest info)
June 2009, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney, and co-signed by other Sydney University academics and community members – Academic boycott endorsement from University of Sydney staff and other members of civil society
April 2009, Scottish Trade Union Congress, bdsmovement.net – Scottish Trade Union Congress calls for BDS
March 2009, CPACS Council – Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies Council endorses letter to Sydney University calling for academic boycott (see item 3.2(i), CPACS Minutes 26.5.09). The letter that was endorsed is here.
March 2009, Committee for the Dismantling of Zionism and other Australian academics, Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel – Australian Academic Boycott of Israel: Global BDS Day 30 March 2009. Also see the report on The Electronic Intifada: Australian academics call for boycott of Israel
February 2009, Hanna Ingber Win, Huffington Post – Hampshire College Divests From Israel
February 2009, Cardiff University, Wales Online – Power of student action forces university to divest its holdings in major arms companies
February 2009, Strathclyde University, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East – Scotland’s Strathclyde University agrees to cancel Israeli water contract after sit-in
February 2009, California Union of Public Employees, pacbi.org – CUPE union votes for academic boycott of Israel
January 2009, Adrienne Rich, MRZine, Why Support the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel?
January 2009, New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, labournet.net – New Zealand Council of Trade Unions (CTU) endorses BDS actions
January 2009, A range of intellectuals, letter to the Guardian – Call for UK and EU governments to not extend agreements with Israel
January 2009, Open Letter signed by over 300 UK Academics and 30 cultural workers, The Guardian – Growing Outrage at the killings in Gaza
January 2009, A range of Jewish academics and intellectuals, letter to the Guardian – Britain must withdraw the British ambassador to Israel and, as with apartheid South Africa, embark on a programme of boycott, divestment and sanctions.
January 2009, A range of intellectuals, letter to the Guardian – Call for the British government and the British people to oblige Israel to end human rights abuses and implement boycott, divestment and sanctions.

2008:

December 2008, The University of Western Sydney’s Student Association (UWSSA) – Australian university student association to boycott Israeli institutions
May 2008, L’Association pour une Solidarité Syndicale Étudiante, Tadamon – Declaration from L’Association pour une Solidarité Syndicale Étudiante

2007:

July 2007, Trade Union Friends of Palestine, The Electronic Intifada – Irish Congress of Trade Unions calls for boycott and divestment
June 2007, Matthew Taylor, Suzanne Goldenberg and Rory McCarthy, The Guardian – Israeli Boycott Backlash: ‘We will isolate them’
May 2007, UK Greens Party – Greens back academic boycott of Israeli universities
April 2007, Dr Derek Summerfield, Professor Colin Green, Dr Ghada Karmi, Dr David Halpin, Dr Pauline Cutting And 125 other doctors, letter to the Guardian – 130 UK Doctors call for the boycott of the Israeli Medical Association
March 2007, various undersigned – Call for boycott against the Israel Medical Association: Palestinian Medical and Health Institutions Call for Imposing Measures against the Israel Medical Association (IMA)
February 2007, London School of Economics (LSE) Students’ Union, bdsmovement.net – LSE Union demands Divestment from Israel

2006:

September 2006, Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), pacbi.org – COSATU Congress adopts Middle East Resolution. COSATU confirmed that its support for boycotts includes support for academic boycott here.
September 2006, David Landy, The Electronic Intifada – Irish academics call on EU to stop funding Israeli academic institutions
June 2006, National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE), The Electronic Intifada – NATFHE vote to support academic boycott of Israel
May 2006, Benjamin Joffe-Walt, The Guardian – Lecturers back boycott of Israeli academics
February 2006, Moran Zelikovitch, Ynet News, Professors: Ariel University – illegal outpost. Also see this 2014 update: In Their Silence, Israeli Academics Collude With Occupation, by Neve Gordon, The Chronicle of Higher Education

2005:

July 2005, various academic and education unions, organisations and campaigns join other signatories to: Palestinian Civil Society Calls for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel Until it Complies with International Law and Universal Principles of Human Rights
May 2005, The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) – Palestinian Call for Academic Boycott Receives Extensive South African Endorsement
May 2005, Sue Blackwell – A Partial List of Institutional Endorsers of the PACBI Call for Boycott.
May 2005, Health Sector Signatories, Palestine – An Open Letter To The Palestinian And International Community Regarding Palestinian-Israeli Cooperation In Health. And update is also posted here.
May 2005, Employees’ Union at Birzeit University – A Statement by the Employees’ Union at Birzeit University
May 2005, Federation of Unions of Palestinian Universities’ Professors and Employees, Birzeit University Employees Union and the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel – Press Conference: Federation of University Unions Calls on All Parties to Uphold Palestinian Call for Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions
February 2005, University of Michigan at Dearborn Divestment – UMD Student Resolutions on Divestment: Student Government Resolution #2005-009. Note: similar divestment motions have also been passed in 2006, 2010, 2014
February 2005, Jewish Socialist Group, LabourNet UK, Jewish Socialist Group on education and boycotts. Note that the Jewish Socialist Group is a member of European Jews for a Just Peace, which has since fully endorsed the broader boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign.

2004:

July 2004, Palestinian academic, cultural and NGO unions and associations endorse Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel – Call for Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel

2003:

April 2003, The Arab American News – Student council votes for divestiture. Also see here for an alternative link. The date of the motion is confirmed here.

2002:

October 2002, Teo Armus, Columbia Spectator – Petition Demands Divestiture From Israel
September 2002, Shemon Salam, The South End – Divestment Wayne State University
July 2002, Petition from over 350 academics from 30 countries, Association of Academics for the Respect of International Law in Palestine – Call for a Boycott of Israeli Scientific Institutions
June 2002, John Docker, Ghassan Hage and other Australian academics, Arena – Call for Australian Boycott of Research and Cultural Links with Israel
May 2002, Vicky Hsu, The Tech – MIT, Harvard Faculty Petition Universities’ Israel Investments. An updated list of signatories is reported here.
April 2002, Petition from over 700 Europe-based academics, Association of Academics for the Respect of International Law in Palestine – University Professors call for European boycott of research and cultural links with Israel. Also see here and here. The set of initial signatures (which has since increased in number) was reported here: The Guardian, More pressure for Mid East peace.

What’s included on this page: This page lists successes in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign by academic and educational organisations, and successes in the boycott of Israeli academic institutions complicit in the abuse of the human rights of Palestinians. These include unions that have academics and education workers as members, and umbrella trade union organisations which include education unions among their member unions. The academic boycott guidelines as set out by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) are listed here. The successes listed on this page do not include cases where a majority of votes in a student union or trade union have voted in favour of supporting the boycott but where unions rules stipulate that more than a simple majority is necessary for a resolution to pass (for example, votes at the University of Toledo and San Diego State University in 2015). Likewise votes in favour of BDS actions but which do not reach a minimum quorum or total votes (for example the 2011 vote at Edinburgh University and in 2011 at DePaul University) are also not included. Also note that the successes in the academic boycott on this page are in addition to support from organisations and individuals for the broader Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign. The Palestinian Boycott National Committee has an excellent page on key successes in the BDS campaign.