This week, our organisations mark a year of shame in which the international community failed to prevent, punish, or put an end to Israel’s ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza. A year full of mourning, grief, and despair, as the international community offers the Palestinian people nothing but empty words.
“On 6 March 2024, Barak Medina and Anna Peters published an article in the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) with a question as their title: “Fighting Terror with Military Means?”… Why do we bother to write against another case of grave violation of basic academic standards? There are several reasons for making our rejection of Medina’s and Peter’s declared support for the Israeli army public.” By S.B. & A.M. The authors, who sign with initials for security reasons, are an Israeli and a German academics.
An interview with Amira Hass
Israel is fast turning Gaza into a wasteland, the result of decades of occupation and apartheid. Israeli journalist Amira Hass explains what life was like for Palestinians before the current genocide.
As the Columbia University professor steps down, he addresses student protests, links between Ireland and Palestine and how ‘higher education has developed into a hedge fund’
Dozens of US doctors and nurses who worked in Gaza have written to Joe Biden claiming that the true death toll from Israel’s months-long assault is much higher than previously reported, demanding the US withdraw diplomatic and military support for Israel until there is a ceasefire.
To avenge 7 October, crimes of all kinds are condoned. But politicians should take note: the British public disagrees
Radhika Sainath writes that the rewriting of policies to restrict protests over Gaza will have dire consequences for campus speech.
Maura Finkelstein was terminated by Muhlenberg College for an Instagram repost.
The UN’s resolution this week has dramatically changed the legal context of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory
This text is Etienne Balibar’s memorandum for the conference that will take place in Johannesburg during September 18th–20th of 2024, organized by the New South Institute as part of the series “African Global Dialogue” with the title “Narrative Conditions Towards Peace in the Middle East”.
