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Boycotts: Your Power, Your Purse, Our Liberation

Boycotts: Your Power, Your Purse, Our Liberation

By Amran Abdiqadir-Mohamed, BA Global Development and Social Anthropology “Boycotts don’t work…I’m just one person so it won’t make a difference…Well the shop has already bought it, so I’m not changing anything.” These are all phrases that I’m sure we’ve heard in

SOAS Votes Against NSS Boycott

SOAS Votes Against NSS Boycott

Khadija Kothia, BA History SOAS students have voted against boycotting the National Student Survey (NSS) after referendum results showed a 160 majority against boycotting the survey. The result means that SOAS Students’ Union will not be campaigning to boycott the NSS after a two-year boycott, leaving students to decide if

Over 300 Academics and Public Figures Boycott Senate House in Support of Outsourced Workers

Over 300 Academics and Public Figures Boycott Senate House in Support of Outsourced Workers

Laura Wormington, PGDip Economics and Development Studies Over 300 academics, politicians, and public figures have so far pledged to boycott Senate House and the rest of University of London’s (UoL) central administration premises as part of an ongoing campaign for the university’s outsourced workers to be brought in-house.

BDS Will Not Be Defeated By Anti-Boycott Measures

BDS Will Not Be Defeated By Anti-Boycott Measures

Mel Plant, BA Arabic and Turkish On the date of publication, it will be almost a year since the SOAS community passed a motion for the academic boycott of Israel. Part of the School’s historic support of the wider Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), the academic boycott motion

Israeli and Palestinian professors back SOAS boycott calls

Israeli and Palestinian professors back SOAS boycott calls

Mel Plant, BA Arabic and Turkish Launching its campaign for an academic boycott of Israel, SOAS Palestine Society yesterday hosted distinguished Israeli historian Ilan Pappe and Palestinian-American Oxford professor Karma Nabulsi to debate the issue amongst the student body. From 23rd to 27th February, SOAS students will have the opportunity

Boycotts 'costs Israel $8 billion'

Tom King, BA Politics Israel has incurred losses of up to $8 billion as a result of the campaign to boycott illegal settlements, according to Mustafa Barghouti, the secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative movement. The claim comes as the European Union issued demands for Israel to label poultry, dairy