Ongoing Call for Signatories
Last Updated: 2026/10/09
The Boycott Dan David Prize Campaign’s statement, “Scholars and Activists Cannot Stay Silent: Honor PACBI and Reject the Dan David Prize!”, is currently open for individual and collective/organizational signatories. Please fill out this form if you would like to add your signature.
The Palestine Solidarity Action Network and Taiwan Alliance for a Free Palestine’s statement, “An Open Letter to the Society of Sinophone Studies regarding Howard Chiang's Acceptance of the Dan David Prize”, is currently open for individual and collective/organizational signatories. Please fill out this form if you would like to add your signature.
If you have a statement or open letter related to boycotting the Dan David Prize that you would like us to add to this webpage, please email us at boycottdandavidprize@gmail.com.
DDP Boycott Suggestions
If you are nominated for the Dan David Prize, you should refuse the prize outright and issue a public statement explaining that your refusal is in line with Palestinian calls for academic boycott. You can draw on previous examples of scholars who have refused “the dishonor of Israeli honors” and have written open letters about their decisions. For instance, in March of 2025, Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari posted a public letter declining the Wolf Prize in Architecture due to “the unfortunate continuing genocide in Gaza.” These statements not only mark an ethical stance, but also educate colleagues and students about why such prizes are contested.
Even if you are not nominated for the prize, you can and should:
- Sign or initiate departmental or association resolutions pledging not to recognize the DDP as a neutral distinction, and encourage your colleagues to make the same pledge.
- Include a line in your CV, website, or teaching materials stating that you support the Palestinian academic boycott and will not accept prizes from or positions at boycotted institutions.
- Organize discussions, reading groups, and teach‑ins about Palestinian resistance to various forms of Zionism, liberal Zionism and its connection to Israeli universities and institutions, and/or the DDF and DDP.
These are just some of the ways we can work together to dismantle Zionist projects in solidarity with Palestinian liberation. Ultimately, the question is simple: If we say we care about justice, whose calls are we willing to heed, and what are we willing to give up to honor them?
In addition, you can and should:
- Support Palestinian and international organizations that work on academic freedom and boycott campaigns: for example, PACBI, the broader BDS movement, regional associations that have endorsed academic boycott, and disciplinary groups that issue statements and circulate petitions.
- Encourage unions, graduate associations, and professional societies in your field to adopt BDS‑aligned positions and to refuse partnerships with Israeli academic and cultural institutions.
- Start a campaign or join a campaign that targets institutional membership of Israeli associations in world bodies, demanding the suspension of Israeli membership in international forums contribute towards pressuring Israel until it respects international law.
If you want to learn more about academic boycott—including why, how and who to boycott—the PACBI Guidelines for the International Academic Boycott of Israel is a good place to start. PACBI’s specific guidelines on initiating academic boycott campaigns lay out an unambiguous, consistent, and coherent criteria that specifically address the nuances and particularities of various academic and cultural contexts.