Ramallah – October 19: The Women’s Commission for Boycotting Israeli Goods denounces the racist Zionist campaign launched against Palestinian academic Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi, who is facing an onslaught of unjust fabrications and defamation organized by Zionist institutions in the Unites States. Abdulhadi is being targeted by a number of political entities closely tied to the Zionist national security institutions in Israel. These reactionary attacks came as an attempt to suppress her active political work and outstanding achievements in boycott campaigns targeting the Israeli occupation and its complicit corporations.
The Women’s Commission calls on all our people at home and around the world to actively stand in solidarity with Palestinian activist Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi. This vicious defamation campaign came in response to her work supporting Palestinian universities in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and her role in boycott, divestment, and sanction (BDS) campaigns around the world, as part of her constant work towards reaching justice in Palestine and ending the oppression of our people.
The Women’s Commission for Boycotting Israeli Goods also denounces the harassment aimed at Dr. Abdulhadi, which constitutes a clear and racist violation of freedom of speech on university campuses, particularly in the United States, a country claiming to hold democratic ideals of equality and justice.
The Women’s Commission notes that this malicious campaign is a culmination of the Israeli occupation’s strategy to combat the success of the BDS movement, which has contributed to Israel’s isolation as an apartheid regime, resulting in financial losses to the Zionist state. Additionally, the boycott movement has uncovered Israel’s long and ongoing history of human rights violations through the state’s oppressive and discriminatory policies.
The Zionist campaign trying to end our pursuit of justice, particularly in Europe and the United States, has led to unfairly and unethically depriving Palestinian activist Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi from fully performing her academic duties at San Francisco State University (SFSU), in addition to stopping the university’s partnership program with Palestinian universities.