Israel/Gaza: Statement by the High Representative on remarks of Minister Smotrich regarding starving civilians
The European Union strongly condemns recent declarations of Israeli Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich at the Katif Annual Conference.
Category: Columns
How Academia Failed the Test of the War in Gaza
Faced with the genocide in Gaza, most Western universities have responded with cowardly silence. Academia’s dependence on political sponsorship and weapons firms has muzzled its critical spirit and created a dismal culture of self-censorship.
Thousands of European academics ask for the termination of European support for Israeli academia
More than 2,000 European academics and 45 organisations have supported a petition asking the European Commission to terminate the EU-Israel association treaty, thereby withdrawing a main pillar of European financial support for Israeli institutions, who are complicit in human rights abuses.
Implications of the ICJ Advisory Opinion for the EU-Israel Association Agreement
In addition, Article 2 of the EU-Israel Association Agreement commits the EU and its Member States to base their relations, and the provisions of the agreements themselves, on respect for human rights. Moreover, in their dealings with states engaged in armed conflict or belligerent occupation, such as Israel, all EU Member States are bound by the duty established in Article 1 common to the Geneva Conventions to “respect and ensure respect for [those] Conventions in all circumstances.” Yet, what has generally characterized EU policy is “a pattern of deference, bordering on legal acquiescence, to Israel’s violations of its agreements with the EU.” The Advisory Opinion of the ICJ demands an end to European deference.
The Hidden War on Higher Education: Unmasking the ‘Educide’ in Gaza
By Ibrahim S.I Rabaia, Birzeit University[1] and Lourdes Habash, Birzeit University[2]
US medics who volunteered in Gaza demand arms embargo over ‘unbearable cruelty’ inflicted by Israel
Doctors and nurses say death toll is more than 92,000, describe gruesome injuries and a sick and traumatized people
ASCA Statement on Collaborations with Israeli Institutions and International Corporations Complicit in Atrocity Crimes
This statement is issued by the Directors of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA).
The world’s highest court has confirmed what we Palestinians always knew: Israel’s settlements are illegal
This ruling lays bare the reality of Israel’s occupation. Acting on it will bring us closer to peace
The ICJ has demolished Israel’s claims that it is not occupying Palestinian territories
The Israeli government has long stressed that there was no Palestine whose land it could occupy and that the territories are ‘disputed’. The court has rejected this
A Holocaust Scholar Meets with Israeli Reservists
Omer Bartov on his experience speaking with right-wing students who had just returned from military service in Gaza.