Ariella Azoulay

• Supports and promotes BDS.[1][2]
• Wrote a pro-BDS article in the South Atlantic Quarterly academic journal.[3]
• Co-authored the anti-Israel book, “The One-State Condition: Occupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestine.”[4]
• During the Second intifada, Azoulay signed an open letter describing Palestinian violence as “a legitimate revolt against colonial occupation.”[5]
• Signed a petition accusing Israel of harming the academic freedom of Palestinians. The petition was then used by a pro-boycott organization to “vindicate[e]…its campaign for the institutional boycott of the Israeli academy.”[6]
• Signed a petition to boycott Ariel University because of its location in Judea & Samaria.[7]
• Signed a petition urging international pressure on Israel and accusing it of “killing and wounding of human beings who are exercising their elementary right to claim political freedom.”[8]
• Signed a petition calling on the European Council, Commission and the European Parliament to pressure Israel into surrendering to Hamas’ demands.[9]
• Gave a lecture at Cornell University in which she blackened out all the photos of early Jewish pioneers of Israel in her presentation, stating “I can’t bear to look at them.[10]
• Signed a letter urging Australian historian Alison Bashford not to accept the prestigious Dan David Prize, which is headquartered at Tel-Aviv University, because doing so would “legitimize and normalize Israel’s colonial violence and apartheid.”[11]
• Wrote an article in the Boston Review titled “Unlearning Our Settler Colonial Tongues,” in which she accused Israel of being a “settler-colonial state built to destroy Palestine.” She also wrote: “Hebrew is contaminated. The Hebrew mother tongue is contaminated. It was abused to provide Israel a mother tongue. Hebrew was made into a settlers’ language.”[12]

[1] https://mlaboycott.wordpress.com/2017/01/04/the-right-not-to-be-a-perpetrator-ariella-azoulays-statement-in-support-of-bds/

[2] https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3696-bds-undoing-colonial-amnesia

[3] https://read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlantic-quarterly/article-abstract/114/3/687/3779/We-Palestinians-and-Jewish-Israelis-The-Right-Not?redirectedFrom=fulltext

[4] https://www.amazon.com/One-State-Condition-Occupation-Democracy-Palestine/dp/0804775923

[5]https://web.archive.org/web/20110721142849/http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/art.php?aid=592

[6] http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=792

[7] https://www.inn.co.il/News/News.aspx/213840

[8] http://www.israel-academia-monitor.com/index.php?type=large_advic&advice_id=6292

[9] http://www.eccpalestine.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Ceasefire-Petition-by-Israeli-Citizens-to-the-EU-1.pdf

[10] https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/10/brown-u-professor-hates-israel-so-much.html

[11] https://bdsmovement.net/news/220-academics-urge-history-medicine-professor-reject-israeli-award-over-israels-medical

[12] https://bostonreview.net/articles/unlearning-our-settler-colonial-tongues/