Home > All News Items and Articles 25 September 2024 Refaat Alareer was a poet and professor of English literature at the Islamic University of Gaza who was killed by Israeli forces earlier this year. His friend, Asem Alnabih, remembers him on his birthday in this article from Mondoweiss. Kites and candles: remembering Refaat Alareer on his birthday It…
Home > All News Items and Articles 24 September 2024 Professor Hank Reichman (pictured) on behalf of the leading faculty association in California sets out the case against the state university system for its brutal, illegal and thoroughly reprehensible suppression of legitimate protest by students and faculty in support of Palestine, as reported in Academe Blog. ACADEME BLOG…
Home > All News Items and Articles 24 September 2024 Pankaj expertly links the mainstream media’s systematic silencing of criticism of Israel with the rise of racism in India, Canada and elsewhere in the West in this interview to The Breach. Globe and Mail censored criticism of Israel by award-winning Indian author Pankaj Mishra’s lecture tracked two decades of…
20 September 2024 The vote, Omar Barghouti (pictured) explains in this article published by the Guardian, is historic in several respects. Will the historic UN vote for sanctions on Israel change reality for Palestinians? Palestinians have never given up hope in our decades-old resistance to Israel’s ruthless regime of oppressionThu 19 Sep 2024 21.24 BST Canada abstained…
Home > All News Items and Articles 20 September 2024 This article in ScienceBusiness is now nearly four months old, but the direction of travel for the boycott campaign seems well established. Academic boycotts over Gaza war jeopardise Israel’s place in Horizon Europe 23 May 2024 European universities are cutting ties and ending cooperation, raising questions over Israel’s future…
19 September 2024 The provost of Concordia University in Montreal has just circulated a “guidance” to departments and other sections of the University banning them from expressing their collective support for Palestine without quite ever mentioning Palestine or the pro-Israel members of the University community who might feel “uncomfortable” with such expressions of support. This,…
Home > All News Items and Articles 19 September 2024 UN members overwhelmingly supported Palestinian demands: 124 to 14, and if we subtract the votes of the tiny Pacific islands whose votes appear to be regularly purchased, the outcome was 124 to 7 with the 7 including Israel (and of course the US.) Within Europe a number…
Home > All News Items and Articles 18 September 2024 The national colonial-settler myth of Israel, like settler-colonial myths everywhere, has inflicted psychological trauma on the colonised people and must be challenged, as this article by Sarah Stunden explains. The term PTSD fails to capture the Palestinian experience We need to understand trauma as not simply a side effect…
Home > All News Items and Articles 18 September 2024 The petition from MESA and its Committee on Academic Freedom to the US Administration is reproduced below. MESA Board Joint Letter With CAF condemning the decimation of the education sector in Gaza September 12, 2024 President Joseph R. BidenThe White HouseOffice of the President1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NWWashington, DC 20500…
Home > All News Items and Articles 18 September 2024 Masha Gessen (pictured) recounts in this New York Times article the many times when CUNY or its constituents such as most recently Brooklyn College or Hunter College have caved in to pressure from pro-Israel forces by shutting down discussion of Palestinian human and political rights. One can only wonder…