The EU-Israel Association Agreement
Entering into force in 2000, the EU-Israel Association Agreement is the main treaty regarding relations between the EU and Israel. The Association Agreement facilitates largely unrestricted trade between the EU….
Category: Columns
Pressure on ‘The Lancet’ for Gaza letter another example of pro-Israel assault on freedom of expression
A new front in the war on freedom of expression has emerged from the pages of the international medical journal, The Lancet. A letter critical of Israel, published in July….
Israel’s Universities: A Pillar of Occupation and Apartheid
Israeli Universities are an intimate part of the Israeli regime, by active choice. While Palestinians are not able to access universities and schools, Israeli universities produce the research, technology, arguments and leaders for maintaining the occupation. (Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s statement of support of the 2011 University of Johannesburg’s boycott of Ben Gurion University)
Peace and Justice Studies Association votes to endorse the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign
The Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA), a bi-national professional association, including peace and justice scholars, activists, and educators in the United States and Canada, joins the Boycott, Divestment and….
This is how an academic boycott of Israel actually works
The growing momentum of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement since last year has drawn a great deal of media attention to the issue of Israel-Palestine, and the cause of….
Crossing to Cairo: a Palestinian diary
Each time Egyptian president Abdulfattah al-Sisi, at his whim, or the whim of the Zionists to whom he seems to have pledged the only truthful allegiance he thus far has….
Why the Salaita case matters, outside the United States US Politics
When the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign revealed it was firing Professor Steven Salaita, within days more than 17,000 scholars signed a protest document, citing the infringement of Salaita’s free….
On the BDS Blacklist
This is a slightly revised version of comments presented as part of the event “Palestine Solidarity: A Faculty Roundtable and Student Q & A,” held at the CUNY Graduate Center on 17 October. The discussion was organized by [a group of students involved with a resolution currently before the Doctoral Student Council at the Graduate Center, endorsing the academic and cultural boycott of Israel. I want to dedicate my remarks to these courageous students, who are engaged in organizing work that is at best thankless and at worst dangerous, given the current climate of hostility in the US academy—and, beyond that, to all those who struggle for justice in Palestine.]
Letter by Israeli anthropologists in support of BDS
Letter sent to the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in response to the letter of the Israeli Anthropological Association (IAA) on 28 August 2014