Israel and Academic Freedom: a Closed Book
You have a 17-year-old daughter… let’s call her Rachel, or perhaps Nadia… raised in a home where dialogue, debate and disagreement have been served as so much a mainstay of….
Category: Columns
We are the (Norwegian) artists responsible for the satirical and political art piece “Nationaltheatret beklager”
PRESS RELEASE BY NORWEGIAN ARTISTS
Is Zionist a rude word?
Words trail meanings beyond their formal definitions. Raymond Williams in his Key Words leads us through the dizzying journeys that words we thought we knew well have taken over their….
Ghassan Hage’s letter responding to an invitation to give the keynote at the Anthropological Association of Israel conference and the president’s reply
I had initially asked the president of the Israeli Anthropological Association who invited me, Nir Avieli, if he wanted his invitation published. As I didn’t get an initial response i assumed he didn’t. But he has sent me his considered response to my reply. So here they are both for the records. As you can see both my response and Nir’s are polite and even cordial despite the differences, and if people want to comment, I’d rather if people keep the same tone of exchange.–Ghassan Hage
Letter in support for Professor Simona Sharoni
September 13, 2016
Dr. John Ettling
President,
State University of New York, Plattsburgh
Dr. Jake Liszka
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs,
State University of New York, Plattsburgh
Professor Andrew Buckser
Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences
State University of New York, Plattsburgh
The right to educate
The 2016-2017 academic year has just started in occupied Palestine, and with it come the hopes and dreams of young students, but also the daily challenges of walking to school….
Fred Moten’s Statement in Support of a Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions
I’ve been learning something recently as the rhetorical energy surrounding the idea and actuality of an academic and cultural boycott of Israel—which is the least those of us who are….
Palestinian civil society condemns Turkey’s rapprochement with Israel
Occupied Palestine, 31 August 2016 – While strongly supporting the aspirations of the people of Turkey to restore and enhance democracy and respect for human rights and international law, the….
The Malevolence of Occupation
Boycott is, as many proudly recall, an Irish invention. The first boycott targeted a notorious land agent, the eponymous Captain Charles Boycott, for attempting to evict tenants. Inspired by the….
‘Why do you have Arabic in this notebook?’: 17-year-old American student strip searched and interrogated in Ben Gurion airport
I am a 17-year-old American girl. I grew up in a small town in Massachusetts. My mother is from the U.S. and my father is a U.S. citizen born in….