Category: Columns

ALERT! La Via Campesina strongly condemns attacks against its member organisation in Palestine and denounces the arbitrary arrests

(Bagnolet, December 2, 2025) On the first of December, the Israeli occupation forces raided the offices of La Via Campesina’s member organization in Ramallah and Hebron. Military units have sealed off the entire area, blocking all roads leading to the offices and preventing any movement toward the sites.

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

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).

Al Mezan Urges Immediate Release of Dr. Abu Safiya Ahead of Tomorrow’s Court Hearing

Gaza, 15 October 2025 – Al Mezan is extremely worried about the arbitrary detention of Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya, a Palestinian paediatrician and the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital. Dr. Abu Safiya was not included in the group of Palestinians prisoners and detainees released by Israel as part of the recent ceasefire agreement, raising the alarm that his detention is likely to be extended once again under Israel’s Unlawful Combatants Law.