Artists stand with Ken Loach and against McCarthyism
“We are deeply troubled to learn of a McCarthyite campaign demanding Oxford University cancel a public event with director Ken Loach discussing his distinguished career in film. The campaign to….
Category: Columns
Imposing an antisemitism definition on academics undermines freedom
As the debate on the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism moves on to university campuses, it becomes all too clear that some voices have been systematically….
Artists like me are being censored in Germany – because we support Palestinian rights
I am just one of many artists who have been affected by a new McCarthyism that has taken hold amid a rising climate of intolerance in Germany. Novelist Kamila Shamsie,….
BNC welcomes ICC jurisdiction decision, calls for action
We call on the International Crimina Court to stop dragging its feet, resist pressure from the US, Israel and Western countries, and immediately do its job.
The Lancet: COVID-19 vaccines for Palestinians
By Graham Watt, Rita Giacaman, Huda Zurayk, Espen Bjertness, Gerd Holmboe-Ottesen, Hala Ghattas, Iman Nuwayhid, Jennifer Leaning, John S Yudkin, Khamis Elessi, Richard Sullivan, Rima Afifi, Yousef S Khader, Harry S Shannon
The Lancet. Published:January 28, 2021. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00185-9
In its war on Palestinian students, Israel deems book fairs and falafel sales a crime
From campus raids to dubious indictments, Israel’s persecution of Palestinian students aims to suppress political activism in West Bank universities.
We are Israel’s largest human rights group – and we are calling this apartheid
The systematic promotion of the supremacy of one group of people over another is deeply immoral and must end
Artists and Academics in Montréal Oppose Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement in Stand for Palestinian Rights
More than 150 artists and academics and over 20 trade unions, cultural organizations, student groups and indigenous collectives in Montréal are calling on the Canadian government to cancel the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement.
2021 Shministiyot Letter
Sixty Israeli high school students sign letter refusing their compulsory enlistment in the Israeli military – “The Zionist policy of brutal violence towards and expulsion of Palestinians from their homes and lands began in 1948 and has not stopped since.”