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Statement on the Arrest of Hebrew University Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
Take action today for Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian’s immediate release.
Anti-woke Republicans attacked Columbia University. It capitulated
In a congressional hearing, Republicans used specious charges of rampant antisemitism to advance an illiberal agenda on campuses
Revealed: Israel has sped up settlement-building in East Jerusalem since Gaza war began
Exclusive: Government ministries and offices behind most contentious of projects, which will create thousands of housing units
Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory”
Amid the internal battle over the New York Times’s coverage of Israel’s war, top editors handed down a set of directives.
Flour ambushes in Gaza: Chaos and starvation are weapons used by the occupation against civilians in the Gaza Strip
Joint Fact sheet by Bisan Center for Research and Development and AMAN Coalition: Flour ambushes in Gaza
Israeli Troops Separated a Gazan Grandma From Her Family. Her Death Will Haunt Her Descendants
Did the Israeli soldiers shoot the Gazan grandma? Did she die of hunger or thirst, bedridden, completely alone? Did she suffocate in the smoke or was she burned to death?
Statement on the Situation in Israel and Palestine
The International Sociological Association (ISA) expresses its deep concern about the horrific events of October 2023 in Israel and Palestine as the human carnage there is unfolding in plain view. There have been far too many victims in this and previous cycles of violence. War and violence are never acceptable solutions and are against all the values we uphold. We stand by and respect the UN resolutions concerning this situation and share the call by many of our Palestinian and Israeli colleagues for an immediate release of hostages, exchange of prisoners, and the ending of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Yanis Varoufakis: My Berlin speech on Palestine that German police entered the venue to ban – and whose publication here led to my being banned from Germany!
Watch/read the speech that I could not deliver because German police burst into our Berlin venue to disband our Palestine Congress (1930s style) before I could address the meeting. Today, because I dared publish this speech here, the Ministry of Interior issued a “Betätigungsverbot” against me, a ban on any political activity. Not just a ban on visiting Germany but also from participation via Zoom. Judge for yourselves the kind of society Germany is becoming when its police bans the following words:
Rebuilding Hope – Gaza Initiative: to Enable University Students in Gaza to Continue Their Studies
Birzeit University’s initiative to support and resume higher education in Gaza.