Professor David Miller fired after Israel lobby smear campaign
The University of Bristol has fired Professor David Miller, a leading UK critic of Israel and its lobby. After a years-long campaign of smears by that same lobby, the university….
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Israeli Diplomat Pressured UNC to Remove Teacher Who Criticized Israel
An Israeli consul general baselessly accused a graduate student of antisemitism and said she shouldn’t teach a course on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
A Pogrom, and Silence
Residents of the Palestinian communities in the southeastern West Bank have experience with settler attacks – when they graze their flocks, work their fields, or even have a picnic on….
Students return to Gaza classrooms, but many schools are still damaged from Israeli attacks
Classrooms in Gaza are filled beyond capacity as educators struggle to accommodate children whose schools were destroyed by Israel last May.
The brutality of denying water to Palestinians in the South Hebron Hills
For the past 15 years, I have witnessed how the Israeli army cuts Palestinian communities from accessing water in order to expel them and take their land.
UK Labour Party votes for motion calling Israel an apartheid state
The UK Labour Party Conference has today voted in favour of a motion to identify Israel as a state practicing the crime of apartheid, making it the first major political….
Legal victory against the European Commission paves the way to stop trade with illegal settlements
On 8 September 2021 the European Commission registered a European Citizens Initiative (ECI) that calls to end trade with illegal settlements in occupied territories such as Palestine and Western Sahara…..
Textbook hypocrisy: EU’s new low point on Palestine
Unlike the US-funded study, which compared both Israeli and Palestinian textbooks (and found broadly similar levels of bias on both sides), the EU set out to examine schoolbooks on the Palestinian side only.
When the Shin Bet Chief Warned That Educated Arabs Are a ‘Problem’ for Israel
Extraordinary declassified documents reveal the reasons cited by Israel’s top security officials for repressing the country’s Arab minority
Times 100 Most Influential People of 2021 : Muna El-Kurd and Mohammed El-Kurd
Through online posts and media appearances, sibling activists Mohammed and Muna El-Kurd provided the world with a window into living under occupation in East Jerusalem this spring—helping to prompt an international….