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Geographers for Justice in Palestine
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Geographers supporting academic boycott of Israel / in solidarity with the liberation of Palestine. We are a campaign in support of BDS in AAG. https://linktr.ee/geog4pal
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November 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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we'll be discussing the "background report" released by AAG, what to do at SF AAG 2026, and the broader campaign for BDS and Palestinian liberation! Visit our linktree to sign up.
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October 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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we anticipate that AAG's "authoritative history" will attempt to diminish the importance and meaning of a history of member-driven advocacy within the organization. though not every member vote was successful, we think it's important to note member opinion *was* important enough to be consulted - !!
On October 3, AAG will release an authoritative history of member organization which will try to diminsh the existence or importance of this history. While not all of these resolutions passed and while none of them were without AAG council organization, they clearly demonstrate a decades-long democratic undercurrent in our organization which we recognize as a lineage to be resuscitated.
September 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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we think it's particularly important to remember and recover this vibrant history -- BDS efforts are by no means unprecedented
a graphic describes that "At certain points, the council would decide to consult members via a mail ballot. Under prior bylaws, the council could also be forced to recall their decisions by member petition and vote. This process was considered archaic in the 1990s due to the internet, but the bylaw changes instituted clearly diminished the vibrancy of member participation and democracy in our organization."
September 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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some of these past efforts include resolutions to boycot states that had not passed the Equal Rights Amendment, to take a position against US funding of contras in Nicaragua, and against nuclear war.
A graphic shows a portion of "An open letter to members of the association" concerning the Equal Rights Amendment boycott. The graphic highlights the position taken that “Even a decision to hold oneself above the fray in some ivory tower is a profoundly political act, a vote to uphold the status quo, whatever that may happen to be.” the graphic highlights a portion of the reporting concerning the resolution against US funding of contra insurgency against Nicaragua. The graphic highlights the resolution against nuclear proliferation and war. An excerpt is highlighted describing that “Geographers, whose professional objectives include understanding the nature and implications of human interaction with all aspects of their global environment, have a special responsibility to express urgent warning of the risks to humanity inherent in the present course of world events.”
September 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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much more detail and sourcing for these posts is available on the FAQ sections of our website www.geog4pal.org/boycott/
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September 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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meanwhile, geographers in the United States have faced immense backlash, extending a historic experience that Palestinian geographers have long faced in our discipline and when conducting fieldwork
Geographers in the United States have faced retribution for their political stances on Palestine. In March 2025, Ranjani Srinivasan, a graduate student at Columbia University, was one of the first forced to leave the United States after the federal government revoked her student visa, preventing Srinivasan from presenting her research at the AAG meeting in Detroit. In account of these events, Srinivasan does not call for quietism but instead that “we must exert maximum pressure on Columbia and other universities to protect international students from these arbitrary state actions.” While these actions are of the most egregious kind, they also continue a pattern. Palestinian-Canadian geographer Ghazi-Walid Falah was arrested by Israeli police while conducting fieldwork in Northern Galilee in 2006. Falah wrote that he was arrested “because I was Ghazi-Walid Falah, the Palestinian geographer known to Shabak, a scholar who has consistently refused to adhere to writing the geography of Israel/Palestine as defined by the Israeli geography guild. I was arrested for my scholarship, seized in the very topography of what I study.” An international campaign to support Falah was organized online – demonstrating the need for more robust forms of protection of academic freedom to this day.
September 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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it is clear that Israel has committed scholasticide in Gaza at universities with geography departments, while restrictions of all kinds have continued and escalated at universities in the West Bank
The Israeli assault on Gaza has completely demolished normal university life, to the point that UN experts have described a “pattern of attacks on schools, universities, teachers, and students in the Gaza Strip” constitutes “scholasticide”: “the systemic obliteration of education through the arrest, detention or killing of teachers, students and staff, and the destruction of educational infrastructure.” Israel has destroyed Gaza’s twelve universities, several of which had geography programs, including Alaqsa University, Al Azhar University, and the Islamic University of Gaza. Students in the West Bank face worsening learning environments. At Birzeit University in Ramallah, over 140 students were arrested or detained between October 2023 and May 2024. Our geography colleagues at Birzeit University tell us that it is rare to be able to hold a full week of classes. This continues a pattern of decades of increasing infringement upon everyday life in the West Bank. Nonetheless, as McGahern notes, such university spaces in the West Bank still serve as “spaces of hope” worth protecting for many students, academics, and community members.
September 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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you can register here -- and also find a link to our new instagram page!

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Geographers in solidarity with the liberation of Palestine.
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September 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM