Another day, another Israeli assassination of a leading Gaza educator. Refaat Alareer was a highly popular Professor of English at the Islamic University, a poet, author and blogger. So the Israelis killed him. He had been living in a refugee camp but on receiving anonymous calls from Israel threatening his life, he moved back to…
The following tribute was published by our French colleagues in AURDIP (the Association des Universitaires pour le Respect du Droit International en Palestine). POSTED ON DECEMBER 8, 2023 | DAN SHEEHAN | LITERARY HUBSOURCE The Palestinian poet, writer, literature professor, and activist Dr. Refaat Alareer was killed today in a targeted Israeli airstrike that also killed his brother, his sister,…
Home > All News Items and Articles Israel has been masterful at controlling the narrative over its oppression of Palestinians, and never more so than in the seven weeks since it launched its genocidal assault on Gaza. Among others, universities and public art galleries in Britain, Germany and elsewhere have been frightened or intimidated into…
Home > All News Items and Articles Richard Silverstein (pictured) is an American, a Jew and an acute observer of Israel and its American supporters. His latest report on the killing of Refaat Alareer makes for chilling reading. The thousands marching for Gaza in London regularly chant “Israel is a terrorist state”. Given what we…
A broad coalition of faculty groups at the University of Edinburgh joined in requesting the administration to safeguard free speech on Palestine. But in a remarkable statement of demands, the coalition went further by calling for an end to complicity in Israel’s savage repression of Palestinian human rights: by ending financial investment and research links…
Masha Gessen, a Russian-American Jewish professor, won a prize in the name of Hannah Arendt, but when German sponsors of the prize heard his voice, so reminiscent of Arendt’s, they dissociated themselves from the prize and so too did the German town officials where the prize was to be awarded. Gessen’s comparison of human rights…
For the past half-dozen years, the Guardian has gone out of its way to protect Israel from criticism. Along with the BBC it led the way in discrediting Jeremy Corbyn, the only national party leader who has ever spoken up for Palestine, by tarring him with the brush of antisemitism. But every now and then…
Home > All News Items and Articles The UCU branch at the Open University has adopted two powerfully worded motions affirming their condemnation of war crimes by Hamas and Israel, their support for an immediate ceasefire, and their solidarity with the Palestinians in their struggle against Israeli oppression for the past 75 years. The 1st…
The appeal below was issued barely more than a week after the Israeli assault on Gaza began. It is reproduced below because it is as timely today as it was then. If anything, it is even more urgent to heed it now. Do Not be Silent about Genocide Facebook Twitter Share 15 Oct 2023 Open Letter from…
A claim that the BBC’s news coverage of Israel-Palestine conflict is strongly biased against Palestine and in favour of Israel would not surprise anyone who closely follows developments there. It is nonetheless hugely valuable to have the report of two highly qualified academics, Greg Philo, Director of the Glasgow University Media Unit, and Mike Berry…