In standing up for Gaza, US students have exposed the limits of free speech
On campuses across America, we see a moral refusal among the young to be complicit in violence accepted by their elders
Category: Columns
On the Oxford Action for Palestine Solidarity Encampment
This morning, Oxford students set up the Oxford Action for Palestine Solidarity Encampment. Over 60 faculty and staff members have signed a letter in support. You can sign too, here:
We Columbia University students urge you to listen to our voices
Please, listen to us – not political figures, radical fringes and misguided media
Immediate Action Needed to Ensure Independent International Oversight in Israeli Prisons and Detention Centers
Ramallah/Gaza, 2 May 2024 — Addameer, Al Mezan, Al-Haq, and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) express deep dismay at the news of the killing of 50-year-old orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh, while he was being held in Israeli custody.
The Distortion of Campus Protests over Gaza
How the Right Has Weaponized Antisemitism to Distract from Israel’s War
Featured image: Message projected on the building from which the students were violently evicted on the evening of April 30 by the New York police.
The People’s University of Providence
“There are no universities left in Gaza,” read one sign from Brown’s encampment for Palestine, which officially came to a close yesterday. The sign faced University Hall, an administrative building, and telegraphed one of the many themes of the encampment: that divestment, among many other, perhaps more pressing, issues, is also an educational issue. Because Brown has repeatedly shooed away calls for divestment under the powerful banner of being A University—a title that supposedly carries nonpolitical implications—the eighty-some students who have chosen to pitch tents in full violation of student-conduct policies are making a point with their teach-ins. If Brown wants to make this about education, the students will make this about education.
Letter to Columbia President Minouche Shafik
You are keeping no one safe, except for your donors, trustees, and the university’s endowment.
By Robin D. G. Kelley, Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at UCLA
I’m a UCLA professor. Why didn’t the administration stop last night’s egregious violence?
The university should have anticipated Tuesday night’s chaos — but security personnel were nowhere to be found
Carlo Rovelli: ‘We can be open without collaborating in every massacre’
An interview with the physicist as students and professors call for an end to dual-use research with Israel. ‘Accusations of anti-Semitism are a cudgel wielded by the Israeli government at every turn against anyone who criticizes it.’
Statement in solidarity with student protests for Gaza
We, the undersigned organizations, stand in solidarity with the students nationwide and globally who are bravely protesting in encampments and otherwise to condemn Israel’s ongoing bombardment of Gaza–actions which human rights organizations, a federal U.S. court, and the International Court of Justice have said “plausibly” constitute genocide.