BDS pledge for economics and beyond
The ongoing assault on Gaza takes place in the context of a long history of Israeli ethnic cleansing, occupation and apartheid in Palestine. The impunity with which Israel has been able to occupy and exert violence onto Palestinians, with support from Western allies, is of grave concern to economists across the world. It is widely documented that Israeli universities have long played a central role in supporting Israel’s occupation of and ethnic cleansing in Palestine, which has led to calls for an academic boycott of Israel. Multinational corporations have also played a central role in supporting the occupation and ongoing genocide, including, but not limited to, arms corporations. With this pledge, we wish to gather support among economists to join the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign to contribute to thwarting the genocide and occupation.
The historic and contemporary assaults on Palestine by Israel have been condemned repeatedly by the United Nations (e.g. here, here), by international organizations (e.g. Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International), and by both Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups (e.g. B’Tselem, Al Haq). In January 2024, the International Court of Justice ruled that there is a plausible case of genocide being committed by Israel against Palestinians in Gaza, and ordered Israel to take immediate steps to prevent any further acts of genocide. As legal observers have pointed out, every university, company and state around the world must now consider carefully its engagement with Israel and its institutions, given that such ties may now constitute complicity with genocide. Students around the world are also campaigning against the genocide.
As an economics institution committed to justice and liberation, D-Econ stands firmly in solidarity with Palestinians against the occupation and genocide. We call on academics and institutions across the world to join us in our support of the BDS movement, by:
- Refusing to formally or informally engage with any Israeli higher education institution involved in supporting Israeli occupation, apartheid, ethnic cleansing or genocide in Palestine (for an overview, see here)
- Refusing to formally or informally engage with any corporation involved in supporting Israeli occupation, apartheid, ethnic cleansing or genocide in Palestine (for an overview, see here)
Beyond BDS, we also believe it is important for everyone involved in higher education to:
- Speak out against all attempts to silence Palestine solidarity action and speech on university campuses and beyond.
- Support Palestinian higher education institutions, academics, educators and students.
- Support movements which work towards divesting universities from institutions and corporations that support the Israeli occupation and apartheid.
We call on all academics committed to justice and liberation to join us in this pledge. We also call on all universities, academic departments and associations, institutes and centers across the world to join us in committing to these principles, especially economics institutions – which have been particularly silent up until now. We also encourage corporations as well as trade unions to sign on. Let us collectively take a strong and clear stand against occupation, apartheid, and genocide.
Sign here as an individual and here as an association.
Economics and related institutions committed to BDS:
- Centre for Development Evaluation and Social Science Research, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Diversifying and Decolonising Economics (D-Econ)
- Economists for Future
- How Women Work, United Kingdom
- Management Committee of the Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE)
- Rethinking Economics, global
- Rethinking Economics Finland
- Rethinking Economics for Africa
- Rethinking Economics India Network
- Pastoral and Himalayan Academic Discourse (PAHAD) Network, Jammu and Kashmir
- The Working Class Economists Group
Economists and others in higher education committed to BDS:
- Abdallah Abdelhamid, independent researcher
- Adam Aboobaker, University of Manchester
- Yacine Ait-Larbi, University Van Amsterdam
- Ilias Alami, University of Cambridge
- Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada
- Martín Arboleda, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile
- Ariane Agunsoye, Goldsmiths, University of London
- Amal Ahmad, Wageningen University
- Max Ajl, Ghent University
- Juliette Alenda, Radboud Universiteit
- Mona Ali, State University of New York
- Jenan Alshowaikh, Università degli Studi Roma Tre
- Carolina Alves, UCL – IIPP
- Luis Andueza, King’s College, London
- Javier Arnaut, University of Greenland
- Alex Arntsen, Nottingham Trent University
- Sam Ashman, University of Johannesburg
- Ilker Aslantepe, New York University
- Hwanhee Bae, SOAS, University of London
- Alejandro Valle Baeza, Facultad de Economía, UNAM
- Joseph Baines, King’s College London
- Nina Banks, Bucknell University
- Ihsaan Bassier, London School of Economics
- John Barry, Queen’s University Belfast
- Gunseli Berik, University of Utah (Professor Emerita)
- Nick Bernards, University of Warwick
- Amit Bhaduri, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Pavia University
- Arnab Bhattacharya, Gran Sasso Science Institute
- Andreas Bieler, University of Nottingham
- Cyrus Bina, University of Minnesota, USA
- Bruno Bonizzi, University of Hertfordshire
- Ahmad A. Borazan, California State University- Fresno
- Satyajit Bose, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Christine Bosch, University of Hohenheim
- Anissa Bougrea, Ghent University
- Manuel Branco, University of Évora
- Andrea Brock, University of Sussex
- Michael Brün, Heartland Community College, Normal, IL
- Jorge Buzaglo, Independent researcher
- Louison Cahen-Fourot, Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University
- Sean Callahan, Colorado State University
- Al Campbell, University of Utah
- Scott Carter, The University of Tulsa
- Izaura Solipa Carvalho, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- César Castillo-García, The New School for Social Research
- Barbara H. Chasin, Montclair State University
- Nikolaos Chatzarakis, The New School for Social Research
- Ying Chen, The New School for Social Research
- Peter Chonka, King’s College London
- Sanchari Choudhury, Colorado State University, USA
- Savvina Chowdhury, The Evergreen State College
- Emily Cook-Lundgren, Independent Researcher, formerly U of Edinburgh & NEOMA Business School
- Jack Copley, Durham University
- José Alejandro Coronado, University of Greenwich
- Bruce Cronin, University of Greenwich
- Yannis Dafermos, SOAS, University of London
- Hulya Dagdeviren, University of Hertfordshire
- Gareth Dale, Brunel University
- Courtney Davis, Kings College London
- Satyaki Dasgupta, Colorado State University
- Ida Danewid, University of Sussex
- Andy Denis, City, University of London
- Bridget Diana, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Yasemin Dildar, California State University San Bernardino
- Aditi Dixit, Wageningen University
- Dhouha Djerbi, Geneva Graduate Institute
- Ilhan Dögüs, independent economist
- Paulo L dos Santos, The New School for Social Research
- Claire Debucquois, FNRS
- Devika Dutt, King’s College, London
- Amitava Krishna Dutt, University of Notre Dame (Emeritus)
- Chandni Dwarkasing, SOAS, University of London
- Remi Edwards, University of Sheffield
- Ann El Khoury, University of Sydney
- Hans G Ehrbar, University of Utah
- Afreen F, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Luiz A E Faria, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
- Navid Farnia, Wayne State University
- Nina Farnia, Albany Law School
- Jose Bruno Fevereiro, University of Sheffield
- David Fields, State of Utah
- Richard W Franke, Montclair State University (Emeritus)
- Daniela Gabor, UWE Bristol
- Franco Galdini, University of Manchester
- Manuel García, SOAS, University of London
- Jeremy Garrison, Colorado State University
- Jayati Ghosh, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Paul Gilbert, University of Sussex
- Laura Giovinazzi, Università degli Studi di Milano ‘La Statale
- Don Goldstein, Allegheny College (Emeritus)
- Juan Grigera, King’s College London
- Danielle Guizzo, University of Bristol
- Taha Zeinali Hashjin, University of Kassel
- Jostein Hauge, University of Cambridge
- Emily Hrovat, Colorado State University
- Güney Işıkara, New York University
- Samyak Jain, Brown University
- Mohsen Javdani, Simon Fraser University
- Jonathan Donald Jenner, University of Manitoba
- Saniya Jilani, Colorado State University
- Rohith Jyothish, O.P. Jindal Global University
- Varun K, University of Chicago
- Pınar Kahya, Inonu University
- Annina Kaltenbrunner, University of Leeds
- Ewa Karwowski, King’s College London
- Deniz Kellecioglu, University of Gothenburg
- Surbhi Kesar, SOAS, University of London
- Lorenz Keysser, University of Lausanne
- Amr Khafagy, London Metropolitan University
- Hanin Khawaja, The New School for Social Research
- Mu-Jeong Kho, University College London
- Matthew Klein, UWE Bristol
- Karsten Kohler, University of Leeds
- Charalampos Konstantinidis, University of Massachusetts, Boston
- Richard Kozul-Wright, Independent, Geneva
- Deepak Kumar, independent researcher
- Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven, King’s College, London
- David Laibman, City University of New York
- Fernando Leiva, University of California Santa Cruz
- Zhongjin Li, University of Missouri Kansas City
- Anamary Maqueira Linares, University of Manitoba
- Juan José López Rogel, Independent economist
- Saite Lu, University of Cambridge
- Sal McCollum, Colorado State University
- Cian McMahon, Trinity College Dublin
- Adalmir Antonio Marquetti, PUCRS
- Helena Martínez-Cabrera, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Leah Masci, The New School for Social Research
- Juan Pablo Mateo, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
- Kathleen McAfee, San Francisco State Univeristy, USA
- William McColloch, Keene State College
- Annie McGrew, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Angus McNelly, University of Greenwich
- Dani Medina, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Michelle Meixieira Groenewald, North West University
- Martin Melkonian, Hofstra University
- Imko Meyenburg, Anglia Ruskin University
- Jo Michell, UWE Bristol
- Thomas Michl, Colgate University
- Anders Riel Müller / 송연준, University of Stavanger
- Ros Murray, King’s College, London
- Raghunath Nageswaran, Geneva Graduate Institute
- John Narayan, King’s College, London
- Kamran Nayeri, UC Berkeley
- Shady Lawendy Nashed, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Ghalia Nassar, Wageningen Economic Research
- Immanuel Ness, City University of New York
- Ha Nguyen, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Maria Nikolaidi, University of Greenwich
- Débora Machado Nunes, Colorado State University
- Ilfan Oh, Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi
- Özlem Ömer, Bucknell University
- Nermin Oruč, Centre for Development Evaluation and Social Science Research
- Morten Ougaard, Copenhagen Business School
- Nathan Parker, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Greg Pasco, King’s College, London
- Mark Paul, Rutgers University
- Francisco Perez, University of Utah
- Kemal Perdana, Colorado State University
- Aleksandra Piletić, King’s College London
- Eugénia Pires, CoLabor
- Jeff Powell, University of Greenwich
- Thomas Purcell, King’s College, London
- Francois Questiaux, University of Copenhagen
- Joel Rabinovich, King’s College London
- Fernando Racimo, University of Copenhagen
- Sonal Raghuvanshi, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
- Cecilia Rikap, Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, University College London
- Roberto Roccu, King’s College London
- Stuart Rosewarne, University of Sydney
- Antonios Roumpakis, University of York
- Carlos Ruz-Fuenzalida, Universidad Central de Chile
- Magnus Ryner, King’s College London
- Micaela Sabbi, Colorado State University
- Mehmet Sait Şahinalp, Harran University, Türkiye.
- Navs Sangwan, University of Greenwich
- Iris Lorena Velasco Santos, Facultad de Economía, UNAM
- Swayamsiddha Sarangi, University of Utah
- Malcolm Sawyer, University of Leeds, UK
- Florian Schaefer, King’s College London
- Kurt Semm, The New School for Social Research
- Sunanda Sen, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Neil Shanks, Baylor University
- Hee-Young Shin, Wright State University
- Farwa Sial, SOAS, University of London
- Ibrahim Shikaki, Trinity College
- Bhavya Sinha, Colorado State University
- Sarah F Small, University of Utah
- Narayani Sritharan, William & Mary
- Kendall Stephenson, Colorado State University
- Sara Stevano, SOAS, University of London
- Maria Dyveke Styve, University of Glasgow
- Mayssoun Sukarieh, King’s College, London
- Farooq Sulehria, Beaconhouse National University, Lahore
- Ndongo Samba Sylla, Dakar, Senegal
- Kevin Tan, SOAS, University of London
- Nathan Tankus, Modern Money Network
- Julia Taylor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, Wits University, SA
- Manu Teague-Sharpe, University of Bristol
- Mike Tedesco, The New School for Social Research
- Sheba Tejani, King’s College, London
- Alex Thomas, Economist, India
- Lisa Tilley, SOAS, University of London
- Chris Tilly, UCLA
- Ben Tippet, University of Greenwich
- Daniele Tori, The Open University Business School
- Esra Ugurlu, University of Leeds
- Chloé van Biljon, ReSEP, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- Ramaa Vasudevan, Colorado State University
- Pete Vechsuruck, University of Rhode Island
- Ivan Velasquez, Bucknell University
- Roberto Veneziani, Queen Mary University of London
- Matías Vernengo, Bucknell University
- Rubén Vezzoni, University of Helsinki
- Ramya Vijaya, Stockton University
- Pawel Wargan, Progressive International
- Christopher Choong Weng Wai, University of Warwick
- Thomas Whitson, Colorado State University
- Rafael Wildauer, University of Greenwich
- Henry Williams, Colorado State University
- John Willoughby, American University
- Zhun Xu, City University of New York
- Michael D. Yates, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown (Emeritus)
- Daniel Z Younessi, The New School for Social Research
- June Zaccone, Hofstra University (Emerita)
- Saskia Zielińska, King’s College, London
- J. Jeffrey Zink, Morningiside University
- Stefan Zylinski, University of Bristol