Vijay Prashad: Where They Stand on Israel

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Documented record

• 2014: Historian Vijay Prashad, an advisory board member of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI), published a Washington Post op-ed titled "Understanding the boycott of Israel's universities" on January 24-25, 2014, and in 2010 Trinity College faculty protested his appointment to head the Trinity Institute specifically over his role promoting an academic boycott of Israel. the prominent role he has played in promoting a boycott of Israeli universities and of study abroad in Israel Source 1 Source 2

Where Galil stands

Our opinion: We don't stand with academics who lend their name and platform to a campaign built around severing ties with Israeli universities and scholars.

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Sources manually reviewed 2026-07-27. Corrections and later context will be appended to this page.