Home > All News Items and Articles The eminent abstract artist Samia Halaby was recently told that a long-planned retrospective of her work at Indiana University in February has been cancelled. Halaby, who studied at Indiana and Michigan State Universities and became the first woman professor at the Yale School of Art, has Jordanian and…
Home > All News Items and Articles The prominent role of wealthy Jewish donors – including in particular the billionaire financier Bill Ackman (illustrated) – in the controversy that led to the resignation of Claudine Gay, a Black woman, as President of Harvard University has increased tensions between Blacks and Jews. Some of the same…
Home > All News Items and Articles Maya Wind was born and grew up in Jerusalem but did not meet a Palestinian until she was fifteen years old. Like all her schoolmates, she believed the IDF was merely defending Israel against the hostile antisemitic Arabs inside and outside the country. Not until a chance meeting…
Home > All News Items and Articles Three of the six-person Students’ Union were suspended last month for refusing to take down an unauthorised statement calling for an immediate ceasefire to end the mass slaughter of Gazans. No doubt, posting the statement infringed the SU’s rules. But, one wonders, why did the SU refuse to…
British police and border guards at ports and airports are employing the Prevent programme, introduced in 2011 to identify would-be terrorists, to harass hundreds of English schoolchildren who display badges or wear Keffiyeh indicating solidarity with Palestine. Practically all of them are children of Muslim families. Police spokesmen insist that merely displaying Palestinian colours or…
Home > All News Items and Articles For years Germany has sought to remove the stain left by the Holocaust by suppressing all criticism of Israel. This has led to the suppression of free speech and academic freedom in Germany and given a free pass for Israel to continue its oppression of Palestine. Now, finally,…
The IDF is “the most moral army in the world”, or so the Israeli authorities want us to believe. It is therefore completely unacceptable to criticise it, and especially if you are an Israeli educator, as Meir Baruchin, a history and civics teacher in a municipal school near Tel Aviv found to his cost. Baruchin…
The IDF seized control of Al-Israa University in Gaza City and turned it into a base and barracks over two months ago. The standard justification Israel has offered for destroying all the other universities in Gaza has been that they are nests of Hamas resistance. Clearly this justification wasn’t available in the case of Al-Israa…
For years, pro-Israel students have claimed they face antisemitism or have been made uncomfortable by critics of Israel or proponents of Palestinian human rights in order to chill this activity at their respective university. Despite their patently opportunistic claims, universities seem unable to reject their claims. This is partly due to the fact that the…
Rebecca Ruth Gould, Distinguished Professor of Poetics and Global Politics at SOAS, reviews Maya Wind’s new book, Towers and Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities undermine Palestinian freedom, in The New Arab. The original version can be found here. Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli universities undermine Palestinian freedom Rebecca Ruth Gould 24 January,…