UN expert: ‘Apartheid is in front of your eyes everywhere you go’
Francesca Albanese discusses the recent attacks against her, defining Israel’s occupation as settler colonialism, and using international law to dismantle it.
Category: Columns
Israeli citizens call for ending Barcelona’s twinning agreement with Tel Aviv
We are a group of progressive Jewish-Israeli citizens, active against our government’s policies of occupation, colonization and apartheid against the Palestinian people. Some of us are the descendants of Holocaust….
The Silent Branch: How Israel’s Supreme Court Crushes Palestinian Rights
The president of Israel’s Supreme Court, Justice Esther Hayut, gave an impassioned and historic speech this month criticizing the radical overhaul of the judiciary proposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s….
Who is this child threatening?
Israeli soldiers dragged a Palestinian child from his home; beating him up in front of his mother. When the father came out to defend his child, the soldiers shot him dead. Then the child was arrested later that night
The Israeli army promised to avoid arresting kids at night. It never even tried
Despite committing to new procedures to reduce the practice, the army is still using night arrests as a default against Palestinian children, says rights group.
Israeli documentary film has been a haven for criticism of the occupation. For how much longer?
For years, left-wing filmmakers have resisted the right’s attempts at delegitimization. But political pressure may soon dry up their funding.
Additional boycott measures against Israel are required, including academic boycott
Discussions of various boycott measures that are being, or will be used against Israel — both in the academic field and more generally — are premised on assumptions that one should challenge. According to….
BRICUP Statement on NUS Tuck Report
A Report on complaints about antisemitism towards Jewish students within the National Union of Students concludes that discussions about Israel and Palestine have made them feel uncomfortable. The choice of the KC to conduct the Inquiry (Rebecca Tuck) needed Union of Jewish Students approval. BRICUP’s analysis of the Report finds its content as flawed as the process of appointing the investigator.
Palestinian alumni call for Harvard Kennedy School dean to step down over Ken Roth fiasco
Harvard Kennedy School’s (HKS) Palestinian Alumni Collective is calling for the resignation of Dean Douglas Elmendorf after he rescinded a fellowship to Ken Roth over his Israel criticisms. The group….
I once ran Human Rights Watch. Harvard blocked my fellowship over Israel
I was told that my fellowship at the Kennedy School was vetoed over my and Human Rights Watch’s criticism of Israel