‘No Innocents in Gaza’: Reflecting on Israel’s First Fascist War
The war that is supposed to end Sunday will go down in history as the First Kahane War. It is fundamentally different from all of Israel’s previous wars.
Category: Columns
In Solidarity With Katherine Franke, Our Former Board Chair
Prof. Franke Will No Longer Teach at Columbia Law School, Stemming from her Defense of Palestinian Students
The Growing Rift between Holocaust Scholars over Israel/Palestine
A chasm has formed between Holocaust scholars concerning Israel/Palestine, deepening immeasurably since 7 October 2023. Unlike previous controversies in the field, the divide is not just historical or methodological; it revolves around academics’ role in the world today, particularly the public stand they choose to take on Palestine/Israel and Zionism. Two main camps have formed. Put reductively, one camp defends Israel, while the other defends Palestinians, although differences between individual scholars within each camp make for more of a spectrum than a clear-cut divide. How, despite a diversity of ideas and foci within each camp, did two academic-political antipodes solidify over several decades, and how have 7 October and the ensuing war widened the rift between them?
Zochrot Stands Firm: Responding to German Government’s Withdrawal of Support
Statement on the German Government’s Defunding of Zochrot
UN experts horrified at blatant disregard for health rights in Gaza following deadly raid on Kamal Adwan hospital
GENEVA – The UN Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, and the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese, today called for an end to blatant disregard of the right to health in Gaza, following last week’s raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital and the arbitrary arrest and detention of its director, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya.
Unrwa may be forced to stop saving lives in Gaza. Will the world let that happen?
Outrage over Israel’s attempt to dismantle our UN agency has largely petered out. The stakes are very high now
Philippe Lazzarini is commissioner-general of Unrwa
Targeted aid killings: How Israel starved a population and sowed chaos in northern Gaza
“Our committees were subjected to direct Israeli bombing.”
Publication advice on collaboration with academic partners in Israel
The Advisory Committee on Collaborations was asked by the Executive Board to prepare an advisory report on Tilburg University’s partnerships with universities in Israel in the context of the Gaza conflict. Based on these findings, the Advisory Committee concludes that Tilburg University, as a moral actor, cannot remain passive and must act. The Committee translates this moral judgment into the following perspective for action: the Advisory Committee advises Tilburg University to suspend, within the legal and administrative frameworks, the collaborative activities under investigation.
‘We Give Them 48 Hours to Leave’: Israel’s Plans to Transfer Gazans Go Back 60 Years
In the 1960s and 1970s, left-wing governments of Israel proposed plans to ‘thin’ the population of the Gaza Strip. A perusal of the minutes of meetings reveals that their ideas don’t differ much from those of today’s far-right government
A Massive Database of Evidence, Compiled by a Historian, Documents Israel’s War Crimes in Gaza
A woman with a child is shot while waving a white flag ■ Starving girls are crushed to death in line for bread ■ A cuffed 62-year-old man is run over, evidently by a tank ■ An aerial strike targets people trying to help a wounded boy ■ A database of thousands of videos, photos, testimonies, reports and investigations documents the horrors committed by Israel in Gaza