Catégorie : Tribunes

Jadaliyya | 3 janvier 2014 | [The following open letter was issued by the below signatories, all of whom are faculty at Trinity College and are writing in response to….

Carolyn Karcher | LA Times | 1 janvier 2014 | Michael S. Roth slams the American Studies Assn. for « unfairly singling out Israel » in its vote to boycott that nation’s….

Just like the German generals of World War I, the politicians most responsible for Israel’s international isolation are trying to scapegoat saboteurs at home.

Par Michel Bôle-Richard | Le Monde | 13 décembre 2013 | Après avoir salué la disparition d’un « dirigeant moral de premier ordre », Benyamin Netanyahou a décidé de ne….

By Steven Salaita | Salon | 5 décembre 2013 | A major scholarly group affirms a boycott over Palestine. They’re right and ethical — and widely misunderstood. In recent years,….

The settlements are an all-Israeli project and the boycott can’t be limited to them.

Aneta Jerska | Badil | 2 novembre 2013 | The European Union (EU) evolved to become an important player in the Middle East’s power configurations and political dynamics. In the….

by Rosemary Sayigh | Al-majdal Issue N 54 | 30 octobre 2013 | The Hebrew University’s plan to hold an international oral history conference in Jerusalem in 2014, announced early….

In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order, and the general welfare in a democratic society.
—United Nations, “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” (1948), Article 29(2)

Discrimination at every level of the [Israeli] education system winnows out a progressively larger proportion of Palestinian Arab children as they progress through the school system—or channels those who persevere away from the opportunities of higher education. The hurdles Palestinian Arab students face from kindergarten to university function like a series of sieves with sequentially finer holes.
—Human Rights Watch, “Second Class: Discrimination against Palestinian Arab Children in Israel’s Schools” (2001)

by HAIM BRESHEETH and SHERNA BERGER GLUCK | Counterpunch | 20 septembre 2013 | A standard argument against BDS – the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against the Israeli occupation….