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SILENT NIGHT: A People’s Tribunal against silence and genocidal censorship

Posted on | (Spanish) University Network for Palestine (RUxP)

State-genocidal violence shamelessly exposes what it does, producing the uninhabitable, but its internal machinery feeds on secrecy to make that explicit violence possible. Secrecy is woven through complicities that seek opacity. In response, this Tribunal constructs a counternarrative to secrecy, reveals opacity, confronts us with our violent undercurrents, and maps our cruelty. (Peoples’Tribunal on the Complicity within the Spanish state with the Genocide in Palestine (PTCGP-25), Session 2, Conclusions, point 26).

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Statement from Birzeit University on the Israeli military invasion of its campus and shooting of students

Posted on | Birzeit University

As part of its ongoing assault on Palestinian life and institutions, the Israeli occupying army carried out a military invasion of Birzeit University during official working hours, at a time when the campus was filled with students, faculty members, and staff. The invasion was premeditated and coincided with a student union protest against the settler-colonial army’s violence against our people and its policy of mass political imprisonment.

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Gaza – The selective silence of the Academy

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The AURDIP publishes and endorses the open letter “Gaza – The selective silence of the Academy,” addressed to the Academy of sciences. Signed to date by more than 500 academics and researchers, this letter denounces the stark contrast between the institution’s swift reaction in support of Ukrainian scientists and its silence in the face of the destruction of Gaza’s universities and the international crimes of which Palestinians are victims.  

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

Posted on | La Via Campesina

(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.