Category: Columns
Desmond Tutu’s plea to the people of Israel: Liberate yourselves by liberating Palestine
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, in an exclusive article for Haaretz, calls for a global boycott of Israel and urges Israelis and Palestinians to look beyond their leaders for a sustainable solution to the crisis in the Holy Land.
Why Anthropologists Must Boycott: Israeli Attacks on Academic Freedom
This is the second post in a series advocating that the AAA endorse an academic boycott against Israel. For more general information on BDS, see our first post. This past….
Israel-Gaza conflict, a response to the Gaza open letter in the Lancet
An open letter for the people in Gaza, The Lancet, July 23, 2014.
Une lettre ouverte pour le peuple de Gaza (traduction CG pour l’AURDIP)
The President of Physicians for Human Rights Israel, Ruchama Marton, on the root cause of the Gaza conflict.
Over 100 Middle East Studies Scholars and Librarians Call for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions
Update: The statement has now been signed by a total of 224 scholars and librarians.
ISRAELI ACADEMICS ‘DEPLORE’ ATTACK ON GAZA
An open letter to Israel’s academics asking them to issue a statement deploring their government’s attack on Gaza has attracted the signatures of hundreds of academics from round the world…..
On 10 th Anniversary of Historic Ruling against Israel’s Wall
Legal Scholars call on world to act
As protests continue in Palestine, worldwide events to stop Israeli impunity
At the UN, 86 top legal experts urge UN and third-state action
Anthropologists Should Embrace BDS
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Isaiah Silver, a pseudonym for two AAA members and Ph.D. candidates in anthropology. In the 30 April edition of Anthropology News, the leadership of the American….
The World Social Forum – Free Palestine November 28-December 1, 2012
The World Social Forum (WSF) has for many years been a regular fixture at Porto Alegre, a sizeable but otherwise undistinguished city towards the very south of Brazil. What was….