Uri Horesh

• Supports and promotes BDS.[1][2]
• Signed a petition calling on the American Anthropological Association to boycott Israeli academic institutions[3] and was listed on the list of potential speakers about the issue in the “Anthropology Boycott Teach‐In Packet.”[4]
• Called on broadcasters to boycott the Israel-hosted Eurovision song contest, writing on Twitter: “Apartheid and occupation is nothing to celebrate! Broadcasters should withdraw from #Eurovision hosted by Israel. #ESC2019 #DareToDream #BoycottEurovision2019.”[5]
• Wrote an academic article that argued that “Hebrew is a colonizing language vis-à-vis Arabic” and that “All of the Palestinians still living in historical Palestine – whether it be in Gaza, the West Bank or what has become Israel– are still living under varying degrees of colonization.”[6]
• As a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, he co-founded the Free Palestine Action Network on campus,[7] which petitioned the university to end its investments in “all companies whose business promotes the Israeli occupation.”[8]
• Called Israeli-Arab activist Yoseph Haddad’s defense of Israel a “betrayal.”[9]

[1] https://mondoweiss.net/2014/08/my-personal-bds/

[2] https://www.972mag.com/pennsylvania-bds-conference-draws-controversy-attacks/

[3] https://anthroboycott.wordpress.com/signatories/

[4] https://anthroboycott.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/teach-in-packet-final.pdf

[5] https://knowbdsinisrael.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Uri-Horesh-Twitter-Eurovision.png

[6] https://www.achva.ac.il/sites/default/files/achvafiles/r&d/publications/10520/Horesh2021Multilingua.pdf

[7] https://www.972mag.com/pennsylvania-bds-conference-draws-controversy-attacks/

[8] https://www.thedp.com/article/2004/03/propalestine_group_erects_fence_checkpoints

[9] https://twitter.com/urihoresh/status/1488590151110602753