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Israel blocks return of Western medics to Gaza, leaving more Palestinians to suffer and die

26 February 2026 Is it because the foreign medics have spoken out about the genocide or simply because they are useful to Gaza’s survival? In either case, Israel is breaching its international obligations and denying vital medical assistance to Palestinians. Here’s a useful report from The Guardian. (Cover photo shows the Gaza al-Shifa hospital, destroyed…

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Why do Western countries support genocidal Israel? Here’s one answer

24 February 2026 Larry Haiven, a Canadian antizionist academic, describes his own discovery of deep-seated settler-colonial prejudice in this article in Canadian Dimension. Settler colonial solidarity and me A personal reckoning with how childhood lessons in empire and whiteness help explain Western loyalty to Israel Larry Haiven / September 11, 2025 Many of us wonder why…

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The French and British governments are twins in their blind opposition to academic boycott

17 February 2026 The following is a brief history of academic boycott from the French vantagepoint by a vice-president of AURDIP, the Association des Universitaires pour le Respect du Droit International en Palestine, BRICUP’s sister organisation in France. As Professor Ekeland describes, the French government has been as dogged in its opposition to academic boycott…

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Greek archaeologists to pull out of Advisory Committee of European Association meeting – in Athens – if Israelis attend

17 February 2026 For some time the Greek Archaeology Association has taken a strong position against Israel’s deliberate destruction of archaeological sites in Gaza and has sought to persuade the European Association of Archaeologists to suspend the membership of the Israeli Association, just as it suspended the Russians and Belarussians after Russia invaded Ukraine and…

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French, German, Italian governments leap to condemn Francesca Albanese on falsified information

17 February 2026 UN Watch, an innocent sounding organisation devoted to deflecting international criticism from Israel, edited a video’d statement by Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Occupied since 1967, to make it seem that she declared: “Israel is an enemy of humanity”. She didn’t…

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