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Session Submission Type: Sponsored Panel
NWSA held its annual conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 2014, 3 months after Israel's war on Gaza. NWSA president was Tricia Lin bell hook was the keynote speaker. Chandra Mohanty organized a presidential panel, attended by over 2000 members. Angela Davis, Rebecca-Vilkomerson, and Islah Jad, Egyptian feminist and former director of Institute for Women'd Studies at Birzeit University, Palestine, spoke.
Scholar/activists who've been focusing their efforts on connecting feminist praxis and Israel's colonization, racism and occupation in Palestine, decided on the spot to organize to call on NWSA to condemn Israel's Gaza massacre and adopt BDS.
Barbara Ransby, University of Illinois at Chicago
Gina Dent, University of California, Santa Cruz
Rebecca Vilkomerson, Jewish Voice for Peace
Sherry Gorelick, Rutgers University
Vanesa Contreras Capo, Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico
Rosalind Petchesky, Hunter College
Penny Rosenwasser, City College of San Francisco