For the Safety of Jews and Palestinians, Stop Weaponizing Antisemitism
Bernie Steinberg was the executive director of Harvard Hillel from 1993 to 2010.
Category: Columns
It’s not just bullets and bombs. I have never seen health organisations as worried as they are about disease in Gaza
A quarter of its population could die within a year due to outbreaks of disease caused by this unprecedented conflict
Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh
A Palestinian Poet’s Perilous Journey Out of Gaza
Following Hamas’s October 7th attack and Israel’s invasion, Mosab Abu Toha fled his home with his wife and three children. Then I.D.F. soldiers took him into custody.
Christ in the Rubble. A Liturgy of Lament
On a live streamed worship session in the Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem, Reverend Dr. Munther Isaac gave a Christmas message criticising those who are complicit in Israel’s ongoing bombardment of Gaza and words of encouragement to the Palestinian people.
The Long War on Gaza
Over fifty-six years, Israel has transformed Gaza from a functional economy to a dysfunctional one, from a productive society to an impoverished one.
Dr. Tarek Loubani mourns Dr. Hani Al-Haitham, head of Shifa’s Emergency Room
Dr. Tarek Loubani is a professor at the University of Western Ontario (London, Canada) and an emergency physician who has provided care on the front lines and in hospitals in Gaza, particularly at al-Shifa Hospital. During the Great March of Return in 2018, he was injured in the leg. He published a post this morning to pay tribute to his colleague Dr. Hani Al-Haitham, head of Shifa’s Emergency Room, killed with his family by the Israeli army
Hannah Arendt Prize: “Comparison is the way we know the world”
Read the talk that Masha Gessen gave at the ceremony of the Hannah Arendt Prize in Bremen.
Hannah Arendt would not qualify for the Hannah Arendt prize in Germany today
The irony of Masha Gessen almost not being awarded the prize because of their writings on Gaza is almost too thick to cut
Columbia AAUP Statement on Academic Freedom in the Current Crisis
BY THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY AAUP CHAPTER.
The following statement was issued on December 14, 2023.
In the Shadow of the Holocaust
How the politics of memory in Europe obscures what we see in Israel and Gaza today.