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A Journalist Asked Why Israel Isn’t Paying to Rebuild Gaza. It Cost Him His Job.
Italy’s Nova news agency confirmed it let reporter Gabriele Nunziati go for asking a European official about Israel at a press conference.
YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.
Israeli use of torture in prison rose sharply after 7 October, says freed Palestinian author
Nasser Abu Srour says prisons became like ‘another front’ in Gaza war and tells of struggle to adjust to life outside
What to Do When Your Professional Association Breaks Your Heart
Public health professionals can sign the petition “Public health professionals object to suppression of views within American Public Health Association, and punishment of Professor Hagopian in the struggle for health in Palestine” here.
Read the text of Amy Hagopian, professor emeritus at the University of Washington School of Public Health, below.
The EU Commissioner for Research denies any ethical or legal issues with Horizon research funding to Israel
On October 15, a delegation representing European academics, with AURDIP among them, was received by the office of Commissioner Zaharieva, who is in charge of start-ups, research, and innovation at the European Commission. Here is the meeting report and the press release. We came away deeply disappointed, and the situation calls for further action.
Israeli forces shoot dead 17-year-old Palestinian boy near Nablus
17-year-old Jameel Atef Jameel Hanani was killed by Israeli forces in Beit Furik in the northern occupied West Bank. (Photo: Courtesy of the Hanani family)
Israeli forces fatally shoot 15-year-old Palestinian boy in Silwad
Israeli forces shot and killed 15-year-old Yamen Hamed Yousef Hamed on October 30 in Silwad in the central occupied West Bank. (Photo: Courtesy of the Hamed family)
We Need to Rethink How We Think About the Holocaust
Professor Marianne Hirsch on how the way we teach the “crime of all crimes” informs our understanding of Gaza.
Senate statement on Gaza, Palestine
The Senate at SOAS is responsible for advising the Board of Trustees on the strategic development and future direction of the university’s academic activities. It is part of the academic governance structure at SOAS that seeks to bring together the academic voice at SOAS to address matters affecting the academic scope, academic structure and academic standards of the university.
Today, the Senate has published a ‘Senate Statement on Scholasticide in Gaza, Palestine’ and committed to the following actions: