Academy for Equality is an organization of over seven hundred members of the academic community, committed to promoting a just and democratic future. Academy for equality expresses its unreserved support for the Palestinian human rights and civil society organizations targeted by the deplorable (...)
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Academy for Equality’s position regarding the Israeli defense minister’s declaration on Palestinian civil society organizations as terrorist EDITORIAL: +972 stands with Palestinian rights groups under attack Israel’s labeling of six Palestinian NGOs as ’terrorists’ aims to suppress those exposing and challenging apartheid. International actors must intervene.
Palestinian Rights Groups Say Israel’s ‘Terror’ Tag Won’t Stop Them The director of Al-Haq, one of the six organizations and the most prominent Palestinian human rights group in the territories, said the groups were considering their next legal move and that they will not stop their work
PNGO & PHROC: Israel’s Sinister Designation of 6 Leading Palestinian Organizations As “Terror Organizations” is an Attempt to Silence and Control Palestinians In a sinister, unprecedented, and blanket attack on Palestinian human rights defenders and civil society organizations, Israel’s “Defense” Minister Benny Gantz announced, on 19 October 2021, the designations of six leading Palestinian civil society organizations (CSOs) as “terror organizations,” (...)
Israël/Palestine : Des organisations palestiniennes de défense des droits humains sont qualifiées de « terroristes » Cette décision constitue une attaque contre le mouvement des droits humains
The New Politics of Exclusion: Gaza as Prologue A new kind of politics is emerging in Western democracies, perhaps best characterized by fragmentation. The political debate is increasingly digital, visual, and incoherent—without structure or boundaries—and therefore transitory and ephemeral. The historian Martin Conway argues1 that the (...)
Gantz Declares Six Palestinian NGOs “Terrorist Organizations” A joint statement by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch called the decision ’an alarming escalation,’ as the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs ’unequivocally condemned’ the move
‘It’s a nightmare I can’t shake’: The lives robbed by Israel’s Gaza assault In a new B’Tselem report, Palestinians recount how their loved ones were killed by Israel’s bombing campaign in May. Here are four of their testimonies.
‘Homeland’ Palestinian Actor Mohammad Bakri Cancels El Gouna Festival Visit Over Deportation of Compatriot Said Zagha Iconic Palestinian actor-director Mohammad Bakri has canceled his visit to Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival over the issue of U.K.-based Palestinian filmmaker Said Zagha being deported from the country without being allowed to enter.
Bakri, whose acting credits include “Homeland,” “The Stranger” (...)Fighting repression in Britain before it comes to us On sait que la reprise en main du parti travailliste par les blairistes s’est traduite par une purge de tous les progressistes, dont des personnalités juives fort connues, comme Moshe Machover, sous prétexte d’antisémitisme. L’offensive s’étend maintenant aux universités, où les enseignants-chercheurs qui essayent de faire comprendre aux étudiants la réalité de la colonisation israélienne et son emprise sur nos sociétés sont l’objet de campagnes médiatiques et de pressions financières. Une première brèche a été faite dans les libertés académiques, car l’Université de Bristol vient de révoquer un professeur de sociologie, David Miller. Une enquête indépendante a conclu qu’il n’avait rien commis d’illégal, mais l’université le licencie pourtant pour motif non précisé. Nos amis du BRICUP, ainsi que les “Jewish Voices for Labour”, nous demandent d’intervenir auprès de l’Université. J’ai écrit hier la lettre qui suit et je vous encourage à en faire autant.