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Ranjani Srinivasan @rrr3006.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Last year we won divestment; now we are pushing for boycott! 🚨🚨AAG members-past, present, and future! Sign our GJP letter asking the AAG Council to put the boycott of complicit Israeli academic institutions to a membership vote. www.jotform.com/form/2622151...

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Letter to AAG in support of a membership vote on boycott of Israeli academic institutions

Please click the link to complete this form.

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Building on successful pressure to bring our professional organization into compliance with the Divestment demands of BDS, we are asking Council to pass a motion putting the boycott of Israeli academic institutions complicit in genocide, occupation, and apartheid to a membership vote.

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

AAG members -- please sign our letter to AAG Council in support of a membership vote on an academic boycott! www.jotform.com/form/2622151...

campaign update: urge aag council to let members vote on boycott!

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Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

"Today, when I look at the empty teaching podium in the hall, I realize that Israel did not just kill a geography teacher, but assassinated a “compass” that was guiding us toward our homeland. He taught us how to see in geography a face of truth."

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

"Writing against erasure: A geography of resistance in Gaza" by Lubna Ahmad Abu Sitta, writing as a geography graduate and Master’s student at Al-Aqsa University. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Sociologists for Palestine @soc4pal.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Congratulations to @geogboycott.bsky.social for this win!!! Unfortunately, like the ASA, the AAG has chosen to block democractic procedures for a vote on an academic boycott. @asanews.bsky.social and AAG, let us vote!

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

thanks for your concern! the post has alt text with a link to the text on our website, as the character threshold was greater than allowed limit!

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Please join us for our final two organized sessions at #AAG2026! #geography #geosky at 10:10am, Black Geographies and Palestinian Liberation and at 12:50pm, No Geographic Technology for Apartheid

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

please join us for two sessions at #AAG2026 today! #geosky at 10:10am, "Resisting Scholasticide in Palestine" at 12:50pm, "Israeli Regional Counterinsurgency & Normalization"

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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Great showing (out the door!) at Reem’s California Mission for the zine party! Thanks for organizing, @geogboycott.bsky.social!

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

please join us for two sessions at #AAG2026 today! #geosky at 10:10am, "Resisting Scholasticide in Palestine" at 12:50pm, "Israeli Regional Counterinsurgency & Normalization"

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

our first panel starts in about an hour! join us to learn more about the BDS movement #aag2026 #geosky

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) welcomed "AAG’s significant steps toward becoming a more ethical association, including divesting its funds from companies complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide."

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Deborah Cowen, professor at University of Toronto’s Department of Geography and Planning, described the divestment policy as “a crucial step toward transforming AAG into a professional organization that reflects its members’ values.”

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

As the American Association of Geographers meets starting today in San Francisco, Geographers for Justice in Palestine invite media and allies to learn more about our campaign The release can also be found at www.geog4pal.org/news/

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

For immediate release: American Association of Geographers Divests From Firms Facilitating Israel's Genocide and Apartheid, but Falls Short on Academic Boycott, Membership Democracy #geography #aag2026 #geosky

Press release -- American Association of Geographers Divests From Firms Facilitating Israel's Genocide and Apartheid, but Falls Short on Academic Boycott, Membership Democracy
San Francisco, CA – March 17, 2026
the full release can be read at
https://www.geog4pal.org/news/

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

dozens of further sessions at AAG (not organized by GJP) will examine Palestinian liberation in their content

Tuesday 3/17:
✦ Migrant and Refugee Food Geographies 2 (10:10-11:30 AM)
✦ The Geographies and Ecologies of Counter/Insurgency 3 (12:50-2:10 PM)
✦ Human Geography & Middle East Spciality Group Plenary Lecture (2:30-3:50 PM)

Wednesday 3/18:
✦ Tourism After Capital (8:30-9:50 AM)
✦ Mapping and Counter-Mapping Genocide (4:10-5:30 PM)
✦ Techno-Capitalism, Empire, and the State (4:10-5:30 PM)
✦ Queer and Trans Futurities (4:10-5:30 PM)

Thursday 3/19:
✦ Archiving the Present: The Professoriate in Times of Genocide (8:30-9:50 AM)

Thursday 3/19 cont’d:
✦ Paul Kohlbry’s Plots and Deeds: Agrarian Annihilation and the Fight for Land Justice in Palestine (2:30-3:50 PM)
✦ Geography in a Time of Genocide and Fascism (4:10-5:30 PM)

Friday 3/20:
✦ Agrarian Racial Capitalism 2 (10:10-11:30 AM)
✦ Public Geographies of Palestine (10:10-11:30 AM)
✦ Afterlives of Authoritarianism (10:10-11:30 AM)
✦ Reclaiming Narratives, Rooting Connections, and Healing Memory Amidst Disposession (12:50-2:10 PM)

Saturday 3/21:
✦ Homelands and Diasporas: Palestinian Community-Making in the Bay Area (1-8 PM) (field visit)

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

GJP has organized five panels concerning BDS, scholasticide, Israeli regional politics, Black geographies and Palestinian liberation, and the use of geosciences in war. We also invite you to a Zine release launch on Tuesday evening; RSVP at linktr.ee/geog4pal

Geographers for Justice in Palestine I

BDS and the AAG
Date
3/17/2025
Time
10:10 AM - 11:30 AM

Geographers for Justice in Palestine II

Resisting Scholasticide in Palestine
Date
3/18/2025
Time
10:10 AM - 11:30 AM
Geographers for Justice in Palestine III

Israeli Regional Counterinsurgency & Normalization
Date
3/18/2025
Time
12:50 PM - 2:10 PM
Geographers for Justice in Palestine IV

Black Geographies and Palestinian Liberation
Date
3/19/2025
Time
10:10 AM - 11:30 AM
Geographers for Justice in Palestine V

No Geographic Technology for Apartheid
Date
3/19/2025
Time
12:50 PM - 2:10 PM

Zine Launch and Community Gathering

GJP Special Event
Date
3/17/2025
Time
6:30 PM - 9 PM
RSVP at https://linktr.ee/geog4pal

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

attending #AAG next week? check out Geographers for Justice in Palestine's organized sessions and events! also available at geog4pal.org/aag

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

we are aware of the release of "AAG’s Response to the Member Petition on Israel–Palestine" -- be sure to sign up for our newsletter for our response www.geog4pal.org/join/

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Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

New book review -- Rama Ali Kased and Tony Marks-Block read Wasim Said's "Witness to the Hellfire of Genocide: A Testimony from Gaza" antipodeonline.org/category/boo...

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

reminder -- today is the last day to comment on AAG's "background report" on BDS!

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

reminder -- today is the last day to comment on AAG's "background report" on BDS!

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

you will need to log in to your AAG account to gain access to the link above

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Today at 3pm EST, join us at an AAG Listening Session regarding “an academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions, and for financial disclosure and divestment of AAG funds in corporations or state institutions profiting from the oppression of Palestinian people.” www.aag.org/events/aag-m...

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

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. linktr.ee/geog4pal

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Geographers in solidarity with the liberation of Palestine.

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Join us for the People's Special Meeting to discuss what BDS and solidarity should look like in the AAG!

Save the Date for the People's Special Meeting -- Oct 17 12PM EDT

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Reminder -- the AAG "webinar" concerning our BDS petition begins today at 12pm ET (about 2 hours from now). Log in to your AAG account and then click the link below to access the member portal and the Zoom link. www.aag.org/events/aag-m...

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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.

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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."

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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.”

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

What is the history of member-driven change in the AAG? Our archival research has shown that member-driven political activity has been common in AAG's history, including struggles around the Equal Rights Amendment; the US funding of contras in Nicaragua; and nuclear proliferation and war.

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

"Western institutions marshalled all...academic and digital repression against grassroots witnessing, unsuccessfully so far...the latest functions of a “geographic violence” that requires the myth of absolute distance between the West and the Other to obscure the proximity of colonial warfare."

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Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Intervention — "On Grassroots Witnessing: Gaza as the Terrain of Epistemic Intifada" by Patrick Anthony (Uppsala University) and Ghada Dimashk (American University of Beirut) antipodeonline.org/2025/09/24/o...

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Intervention—“On Grassroots Witnessing: Gaza as the Terrain of Epistemic Intifada” - Antipode Online

Patrick Anthony (Uppsala University) and Ghada Dimashk (American University of Beirut) Baba, when will we study astronomy in school? … I want to learn about the moon and stars. (Banias, age 9, quoted ...

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

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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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

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.

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

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.

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

How have geographers, geography departments, and geographic thought been affected by Israel?

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Mollie Holmberg @octoqueenphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Geographers/AAG members: I just sent my emails to my regional councilor, the Exec Committee, & Nat Councilors demanding that the organization uphold democratic processes & allow a vote on BDS. We *urgently* need members to email councilors ahead of this Friday Sept 12. geog4pal.netlify.app/news/

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

reminder -- this event on BDS strategy in academic associations is tomorrow! be sure to register in advance

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

please join us next week for an online event with colleagues in other disciplines who have worked to bring BDS resolutions to votes within their academic associations!

A "Save the Date" flyer inviting you to a conversation on boycotts, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) across the academy, featuring speakers from the American Association of Geographers, the American Sociological Association, and the American Historical Association. the event is September 9 at 12pm eastern time. you can register for the webinar at linktr.ee/geog4pal

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

please join us next week for an online event with colleagues in other disciplines who have worked to bring BDS resolutions to votes within their academic associations!

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Newsletter #2 is being drafted now, and will include a save-the-date for an upcoming webinar with academics who have campaigned for BDS resolutions in other disciplinary organizations. sign up now to receive the details soon! geog4pal.org/join/

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Please sign up if you have not already done so

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

in advance of the upcoming "special meeting," we've updated our website with three extensive "FAQ" pages concerning the academic boycott of Israel, the grounds for BDS in AAG, and addressing potential concerns. we've learned a lot on, for instance, the history of member-driven change in AAG.

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