[[{"content_id":419911,"content_number":0,"portal_id":2,"lang_id":"en","content_title":"PACBI warns against “Peacebuilding Lab” project","content_rtitr":"","content_short_title":null,"content_summary":"The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) has warned against participating in the “Peacebuilding Lab” project, calling on all participants from the Arab region to withdraw from the initiative immediately.","content_summary_fill":1,"content_body":"In a press statement, PACBI said the project presents itself as a joint initiative between Gordon Academic College of Education in Haifa, which the campaign described as a complicit Israeli institution, and partners from Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Italy, and Cyprus, with joint funding from the European Union’s Erasmus+ program.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe campaign said the project’s activities focus on youth, sports, and initiatives promoting “intellectual dialogue” and “coexistence.” It said that the initiative ignores the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, foremost among them the rights to self-determination, return, and national liberation, while creating a moral and political equivalence between the colonizer and the colonized.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nPACBI called on Palestinian and Arab civil society organizations and youth groups to intensify peaceful public pressure to boycott the “Peacebuilding Lab” project and work to ensure its failure. It also urged people to refrain from participating in any events, activities, or programs organized by the initiative or by similar projects that it described as promoting normalization with Israel.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe campaign further called on European societies and civil society organizations to increase pressure on the European Union to end its complicity with the Zionist regime’s occupation and to stop supporting projects that contribute to entrenching the occupation and improving its international image.\r\n\r\n ","content_html":"

In a press statement, PACBI said the project presents itself as a joint initiative between Gordon Academic College of Education in Haifa, which the campaign described as a complicit Israeli institution, and partners from Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Italy, and Cyprus, with joint funding from the European Union’s Erasmus+ program.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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The campaign said the project’s activities focus on youth, sports, and initiatives promoting “intellectual dialogue” and “coexistence.” It said that the initiative ignores the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, foremost among them the rights to self-determination, return, and national liberation, while creating a moral and political equivalence between the colonizer and the colonized.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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PACBI called on Palestinian and Arab civil society organizations and youth groups to intensify peaceful public pressure to boycott the “Peacebuilding Lab” project and work to ensure its failure. It also urged people to refrain from participating in any events, activities, or programs organized by the initiative or by similar projects that it described as promoting normalization with Israel.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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The campaign further called on European societies and civil society organizations to increase pressure on the European Union to end its complicity with the Zionist regime’s occupation and to stop supporting projects that contribute to entrenching the occupation and improving its international image.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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