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Criminalizing Dissent: The Attack on BDS & American Democracy

  • UMass Amherst Fine Arts Center 151 Presidents Drive Amherst, MA, 01002 United States (map)

“Criminalizing Dissent: The Attack on BDS & American Democracy” will address accelerating efforts by U.S. political leaders, pro-Israel lobbying groups, and college and university administrators to silence, smear, and criminalize supporters of BDS, a nonviolent movement that aims to hold Israel accountable for its ongoing human rights abuses and its illegal 50-year occupation of Palestinian land. Topics will include the recent bipartisan vote by the U.S. House of Representatives to condemn BDS, and a new U.S. Department of Education policy.

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