Inspired by Filmmakers United Against Apartheid who refused to screen their films in apartheid South Africa, we pledge not to screen films, appear at or otherwise work with Israeli film institutions—including festivals, cinemas, broadcasters and production companies—that are implicated* in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people.
Without means to travel and no safe place to seek shelter, many Palestinians have no option but to stay in Gaza City despite the intensifying military offensive.
In a rare public statement, more than 300 French and international musicians condemn “the support of Western powers for the genocidal policy of the State of Israel, which tramples international law and its institutions with total impunity.” They call on the so-called “classical” music world to clarify its stance on the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
While the ongoing Israeli, US – backed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza is entering its third year, the United States (US), rather than end its complicity with Israel, has imposed sanctions against Al-Haq, Al-Mezan, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) – the leading human rights organisations working on international criminal accountability for perpetrators of atrocity crimes in Palestine.
Gaza, 1 September 2025 – Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza continues unchecked as the international community fails to act. Alongside dozens of daily killings by the Israeli military and man-made famine, the lives of two million Palestinians are being placed at additional risk of epidemics and infectious diseases.
By ignoring the killing of Palestinian journalists in Gaza, their Israeli colleagues are adding a moral insult to the ethical and professional injury of under-reporting or even ignoring the plight of Gaza’s civilian population for the past 690 days
Imagine your friends, forced to flee for at least the eighth time – hungry, grieving, running from shells. As Gaza is emptied by bombs and bulldozers, Israeli silence is another form of violence
Unless the UK expedites the safe passage of Palestinians with university offers, the government will have abetted the wiping out of scholarship in Gaza, says Oxford emeritus professor Avi Shlaim
I fear hunger more than death, for it takes you in slow, devouring waves until you become a disintegrating shadow, unable even to scream.
Will anyone read this?
Will anyone believe that a writer could no longer write because he had nothing to eat?
Will anyone care that, in a corner of the world, people are starving so completely that their souls are silenced?
Perhaps not.
But I wrote this – despite everything.
To say that writing is possible.
Only if the body is allowed to survive.
By Husam Maarouf
The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) suspended Russia in 2022 but readmitted it in 2025 instead of suspending Israel in addition. In this article, I explain how this moral decline of the IMO proceeded from 2022 to 2025, and I emphasize its severe negative consequences for the mathematical olympiad community. By Melih Ucer.
