3 September 2014 – The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) calls on you to cancel your collaboration with the Hebrew University in the program….
A response by Paola Manduca to the article “We are both doctors: a Palestinian doctor writes to an Israeli colleague” by Izzeldin Abuelaish published in BMJ 349 (the British Medical Journal) on 13 August 2014.
Dear president of the European Parliament and EU high representative for foreign affairs, We are human rights defenders from Algeria, Bangladesh, and Israel, united by the honour of being recipients….
The open letter originated in late June, after a long permanence in Gaza. The devastating impact of Egyptian blockade on top of the Israeli’s occupation and control was already so biting in spring that prompted us to look for rapid and effective means to stop the blockade and allow for people freedom of movement, commerce, study and cure. Gaza was already a sinking economy then. The call was started by Italian people and associations, aiming to bring it rapidly to the Italian presidency of the European Parliament and is presently extending to the other EU countries.
It has been a long time since 1967. I know. I was a young conscripted officer in the Israel Defense Force then, as blind as the current generation of IDF….
Facing the unsustainable war of attrition between Gaza and Israel, we exhort all leaders presently involved in negotiations for a permanent cease-fire to abide by universal humanitarian standards. The erratic….
The Israeli regime is based on grabbing land and nurturing the apparatus that secures the plunder — the army, in the local argot.
This day is carved in my memory. As all academics in Gaza, I had given much thought to my students who were suffering all sorts of agonies and worries caused….
The State of Israel never accepted us as citizens with equal rights, writes filmmaker Suha Arraf. From the day the state was established, we were marked as the enemy and treated with racial discrimination in all areas of life. Why, then, am I expected to represent Israel with pride?
As Library and Information Science (LIS) practitioners, students and scholars, we are committed to the principles of our field: to the free access to and flow of information and to the intellectual freedom….
