Bill Mullen


“Free Palestine” is not simply a heralding of the end of Israeli apartheid; it is a metonymy for a world without walls, without bounded borders, without checkpoints.”

Occupation: Professor

University: Purdue University

Organization(s): United States Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI); Campus Antifascist Network (CAN)

Link: https://www.billvmullen.com

Bill has been active in Palestine Solidarity work since 2009 when he endorsed the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israeli universities. In January, 2012, he was part of a USACBI delegation to the West Bank. In 2013, Bill was active in the campaign within the American Studies Association that successfully passed a resolution to boycott Israeli universities. Since 2010, he has been faculty adviser to Purdue Students for Justice in Palestine.

In 2016, he co-edited, with Ashley Dawson, Against Apartheid: The Case for Boycotting Israeli Universities. His writing on BDS and Palestine has appeared in Electronic Intifada, Mondoweiss, Social Text, Jadaliyya and the International Socialist Review.