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PCHR Documents Testimonies of Systematic Rape and Sexual Torture in Israeli Detention against Released Palestinian Detainees

Posted on | Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR)

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) documents one of the most heinous crimes that can be committed against human beings and their dignity in the modern era. In recent weeks, PCHR staff collected new testimonies from a number of Palestinian detainees from the Gaza Strip who were recently released from Israeli prisons and detention camps. These accounts reveal an organized and systematic practice of sexual torture, including rape, forced stripping, forced filming, sexual assault using objects and dogs, in addition to deliberate psychological humiliation aimed at crushing human dignity and erasing individual identity entirely. PCHR affirms that the testimonies do not reflect isolated incidents but constitute a systematic policy practiced in the context of the ongoing crime of genocide against more than two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including thousands of detainees held in prisons and military camps closed to international monitoring bodies, including the International Committee of the Red Cross.

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Cancellation of a Conference on Palestine: Letter from the Academic Council of “Jewish Voice for Peace”

Posted on | Jewish Voice for Peace

More than 120 scholars representing the Academic Council of the U.S. organization Jewish Voice for Peace express their concern and indignation over the Collège de France’s cancellation of the “Palestine and Europe” conference. “When such a highly esteemed institution such as the Collège de France allows itself to be pressured to censor scholarly activities, it risks not only losing its own academic independence and integrity but sets a worrisome precedent for universities struggling to maintain their internal standards and self-governing procedures during these increasingly authoritarian times.”

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The Collège de France yields to pressure and cancels the symposium “Palestine and Europe”

Posted on | Le Centre arabe de recherches et d’études politiques de Paris (CAREP Paris)

We are angered and compelled to announce that the administrator of the Collège de France has decided to cancel the symposium “Palestine and Europe: The Weight of the Past and Contemporary Dynamics” – scheduled for November 13 and 14 – which had been planned for several months by the Chair of Contemporary History of the Arab World at the Collège de France and the Arab Center for Research and Political Studies in Paris (CAREP Paris).