Until All Halls Are Hind’s Hall
Independent Student Worker’s conclude Sickout, but the fight for a free Palestine persists.
The following is a statement by the Independent Student Workers of Columbia University:
Category: Columns
The Palestinian challenge to US medical ethics
For the past 7 months, the world has been witnessing the murder of health workers, as well as their abduction, torture, execution, and the dumping of their bodies in mass graves; killing of patients in their hospital beds; deliberate bombing of hospitals and clinics; targeted destruction of health and sanitation infrastructure; blockades to humanitarian aid and essential medications during a historic famine manufactured to serve as a weapon of war; and the infliction of conditions designed to be incompatible with life on Palestinians in Gaza.
The Lemkin Institute: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza
The Lemkin Institute has had it with the cynical lies and propaganda from Israel and the USA. One can have different views about the definition of genocide, but one may not use definitional disputes to deny genocide. If a genocide may be occurring, every nation is compelled by customary law to try to stop it.
‘Nothing justifies what we have witnessed here’: the doctors returning home from Gaza
British doctors Mohammed Tahir and Omar El-Taji thought they were mentally prepared to help treat people in Rafah. But what they and other foreign volunteers faced was beyond anything they could have imagined
MIT’s Orwellian language masks its stance on Gaza protests
In George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the fictional language Newspeak is designed to control human minds and hide reality — for example, claiming that ‘war is peace’ and ‘ignorance is strength’ or, in the case of my native Haiti, calling a violent invasion a ‘peacekeeping mission’— so that the ruling classes of the world, aka ‘Big Brother’, can strengthen the power of their totalitarian regimes. In recent months, this dystopian use of language as a political weapon for a variety of nefast objectives (gaslighting, dehumanisation and manufacturing consent) has intensified in the context of the war on Gaza and associated protests and counter-protests, police crackdowns on student encampments against genocide. Most surprisingly, doublespeak has permeated even curriculum-related disputes with my own departmental colleagues at MIT about what’s ‘fit’ to teach as linguistics and what my expertise (or alleged lack thereof) should allow me to teach as such. Is ignorance really strength, even at MIT, even among linguists? If linguistics were taken as an indispensable tool for unveiling Newspeak’s semantic distortions and for advocating for liberation and community-building, it might help usher a better world — by Michel DeGraff (MIT)
Unless it stops an Israeli invasion of Rafah, the US could be a global pariah
The international court of justice has ordered Israel to halt its attack on Rafah. The US has a last chance to stop this bloodshed
Letter from Lund University Academics for Palestine (LUAP)
In light of the continued suffering of Palestinian civilians in Gaza after months of brutal bombardment by the Israeli military, we call on the university administration and the vice chancellor at Lund University to make their position clear.
We EU Parliamentarians Condemn the Israeli Lawmaker Calling for a Second ‘Nakba’
Israel’s parliament should appoint a new head for the Knesset delegation for relations with the European Parliament, unless Knesset Member Ariel Kallner apologizes for these comments and deletes his despicable tweets
UN expert horrified by death of Gazan orthopedic surgeon in Israeli detention
GENEVA (16 May 2024) – The death of a renowned Palestinian orthopedic surgeon after nearly four months in detention was “horrifying”, a UN expert said today, demanding an independent international investigation into the circumstances of his demise.
Leiden University’s ties with Israeli universities
Leiden University has recently received various petitions from students and staff concerning our ties with Israeli universities. We have also held extensive discussions with the University Council in response to questions raised on the subject. We think it important that our partners and research projects reflect our values and respect human rights, equality, academic freedom and integrity. We therefore need an ethical assessment framework similar to the one for collaboration with the fossil fuel industry.