US medics who volunteered in Gaza demand arms embargo over ‘unbearable cruelty’ inflicted by Israel
Doctors and nurses say death toll is more than 92,000, describe gruesome injuries and a sick and traumatized people
Category: Columns
ASCA Statement on Collaborations with Israeli Institutions and International Corporations Complicit in Atrocity Crimes
This statement is issued by the Directors of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA).
The world’s highest court has confirmed what we Palestinians always knew: Israel’s settlements are illegal
This ruling lays bare the reality of Israel’s occupation. Acting on it will bring us closer to peace
The ICJ has demolished Israel’s claims that it is not occupying Palestinian territories
The Israeli government has long stressed that there was no Palestine whose land it could occupy and that the territories are ‘disputed’. The court has rejected this
A Holocaust Scholar Meets with Israeli Reservists
Omer Bartov on his experience speaking with right-wing students who had just returned from military service in Gaza.
Resisting Israeli Scholasticide and Academic Apartheid
Israel’s genocidal war is both massacring Palestinians and destroying their physical and social infrastructure. In particular, Israel has targeted Palestinian educational institutions. In late April, UN experts concluded, “with more….
Marking a Decade of Impunity: The Killing of Four Bakr Children by the Israeli Military in Gaza
Gaza, Haifa, 16 July 2024 — Today marks exactly 10 years since the killing of four Palestinian children from the Bakr family – Ahed (9 years), Zakaria (10 years), Mohammed (11 years), and Ismail (9 years) – by the Israeli military in Gaza. In marking this somber anniversary, Al Mezan, Adalah, and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) highlight the systematic failure of the Israeli legal system to hold perpetrators accountable for acts of violence against Palestinians. This failure persists amid Israel’s genocidal military campaign against more than two million Palestinians in Gaza over the last nine months.
Israel seeks to rewrite the laws of war
If the world accepts the way Israel now interprets the principle of proportionality, then genocide will become justified.
Accusing Israel of genocide cost me a job — just another example of a university failing Jews
The American academic system has shown itself unable to adapt to a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between Jews and Israel
Who will stop Israel’s illegal annexations of Palestinian land ?
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) condemns Israel’s plans to annex and expand illegal settlements in the West Bank, actions that constitute war crimes under the Fourth Geneva Convention. Third countries must uphold international law for the Palestinian people, or it will eventually cease to exist. FIDH call on all states to deploy all the necessary efforts in order to end Israel’s settler-colonialism and apartheid, and work towards the realisation of the Palestinian people’s rights to self-determination.