{"id":68057,"date":"2015-12-21T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=68057"},"modified":"2015-12-21T09:50:09","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T09:50:09","slug":"university-of-barcelona-announces-official-boycott-of-israeli-occupation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/12\/university-of-barcelona-announces-official-boycott-of-israeli-occupation\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Barcelona Announces Official Boycott of Israeli Occupation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>20 Dec 2015 &#8211; <\/em>The Central University of Barcelona (UAB) announced its decision to boycott Israeli universities and institutions that have ties, whether direct or indirect, with the occupation of Palestine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/boycott-israel-palestine-barcelona.jpg\"  rel=\"attachment wp-att-68058\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-68058\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/boycott-israel-palestine-barcelona.jpg\" alt=\"boycott israel palestine barcelona\" width=\"700\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/boycott-israel-palestine-barcelona.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/boycott-israel-palestine-barcelona-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/boycott-israel-palestine-barcelona-768x405.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe move makes part of the international initiative \u201cPlaces without Racism\u201d launched by hundreds of official institutions and universities around the world.<\/p>\n<p>In Spain, the global BDS campaign for the boycott of Israel kicked off in 2007 to promote all forms of boycott against the Israeli occupation among the world\u2019s community organizations, unions, as well as political, academic and cultural institutions.<\/p>\n<p>A workshop on the different ways to promote the boycott of Israel campaign was held in Spain\u2019s northern city of San Sebastian and joined by activists from South America, Africa, and Europe.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/english.palinfo.com\/site\/pages\/details.aspx?itemid=75686#.Vnap6kZXYEM.facebook\" >Go to Original \u2013 palinfo.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 Dec 2015 &#8211; The Central University of Barcelona (UAB) announced its decision to boycott Israeli universities and institutions that have ties, whether direct or indirect, with the occupation of Palestine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}