Dany Doueiri
Overview
Dany Doueiri is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement and has worked to prevent collaboration between the California State University (CSU) system and Israel. He also participated in an anti-Israel event at the University of California, San Bernardino (CSUSB).Doueiri is an associate professor of World Languages and Literatures at the CSUSB.
Supporting BDS
In January 2012, Doueiri signed an open letter to CSU Chancellor Reed urging him “not to reinstate the CSU Israel Study Abroad Program.”In the letter, signatories claimed that “CSU participation with the government of Israel in the proposed study abroad program could be interpreted as an endorsement of the international crime of apartheid.”
On August 12, 2014, Doueiri signed a statement, authored by American Muslim organizations, titled “End Israeli Aggression and Occupation.”
The statement alleged that Israel had “surpassed all levels of brutality and cruelty.”
The petition went on to call for a complete end to American aid to Israel, and for “people across the US and around the world to join the BDS campaign,” on the basis that “An Israel that continues to occupy millions of human beings and apply Apartheid-like policies to control them should be rejected and ostracized.”
Anti-Israel Activism on Campus
On April 18, 2017, Doueiri participated in an anti-Israel lecture titled “Gender, Race, Sexuality and the Israeli Palestinian Conflict” at CSUSB. The event featured a panel of anti-Zionist activists Rabab Abdulhadi and Simona Sharoni who spoke about “the relationships between militarism, sexism, racism, and homophobia as well as between political violence and gender-based violence.”BDS
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by Omar Barghouti in 2005 to challenge “international support for Israeli apartheid and settler-colonialism.” BDS is an allegedly “Palestinian-led movement,” although leading BDS activists have admitted [00:01:01] this is not true.
One of the demands of BDS includes [point 3] what is generally known as the “right of return,” a demand discredited as a way to eliminate Israel. Barghouti said the “right of return” is a means to “end Israel’s existence as a Jewish state.”
Barghouti has said that BDS “aims to turn Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was.”
In his activism, Barghouti has also said [00:05:55] regarding Israel: “Definitely, most definitely, we oppose a Jewish state in any part of Palestine. No…rational Palestinian, not a sellout Palestinian, will ever accept a Jewish state in Palestine.”
The movement has been linked to numerous terrorist organizations and received a public endorsement from Hamas in 2017.
BDS initiatives include calling on institutions and individuals to divest from Israeli-affiliated companies, promoting academic and cultural boycotts of Israel, and organizing anti-Israel rallies, protests and campaigns.
The movement’s most notable achievement has been the infiltration of university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student governments and student groups, backed by their own anti-Israel members and affiliates, have proposed resolutions on some form of boycott of, or divestment from, Israel and Israeli-affiliated entities.
Boycott resolutions, although non-binding, have been passed by student governments on numerous North American campuses.
BDS activity is often aggressive and disruptive. It has been noted that universities that pass BDS resolutions see a marked increase in anti-Semitic incidents on campus. On one campus, when the student government debated a BDS resolution, reports emerged of violent threats against those opposing it.
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- Status:
- Professor
- University:
- California-State-San-Bernadino
- Organizations:
- BDS
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- Last Modified:
- 06/23/2025
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