., and Alicia Koutsoulieris, Amnesty USA case coordinator on Israel and Palestine, toured Israel and West Bank with Interfaith Peace-Builders, American Friends Service Committee , and Jewish Voice for Peace. ... In October 2014, McCracken called for the US to stop funding Israel's..…
The first intifada in 1987 and the second one starting in 2000 were inspiring uprisings of resistance on the part of Palestinians in response to the rapid growth of Israeli settlements in West Bank and Gaza following Israel's occupation of those territories in 1967. ..…
Support for it surged with public outrage after Israeli soldiers murdered 1,400 people during the 2008–09 Operation Cast Lead invasion of Gaza, and more recently when the American Studies Association became the third, and largest, academic organization in the world to endorse the academic..…
At the time, Israel's latest military assault on Gaza, Operation Protective Edge, challenges the momentum of BDS movement. The recent firing of Arab American Steven Salaita reflects the mainstreaming of BDS and pro- Palestinian politics on US campuses, while also exposing the new..…