Boycott is best response to illegal Israeli killings
Ireland and EU complicit in enabling Israel’s violations of Palestinian’s rights
Category: Columns
Palestinians on US Embassy Opening in Jerusalem & 70 Years of the Ongoing Nakba
The Trump administration’s decision to open the US embassy in Jerusalem as Palestinians commemorate 70 painful years of displacement signals that it’s giving Israel freer reign than ever to try to push Palestinians out of their homeland. But a growing alliance of progressive communities around the world gives Palestinians hope that together they can, and will, end the ongoing assaults on Palestinian life, and create a better world for all.
Columbia Community Objects to Israeli Global Center
This petition protests the refusal of the state of Israel to permit entry to Professor Katherine Franke of Columbia University. Franke arrived to meet with Israeli and Palestinian colleagues. She was interrogated for 14 hours before being sent back to NY and told she was barred from entry. We adamantly oppose the creation of a Columbia Global Center in Israel, particularly, though not only, because many members of the Columbia community would be denied entry to Israel because of their speech, or their academic and political work. This denial is in violation of Columbia’s core values, and Columbia must similarly deny to support, through association, such actions.
Israel using culture to mask brutality, say film-makers, journalists and artists
Cinema, media and cultural institutions should refuse to provide platforms for national celebrations sponsored by Israel, say signatories including Helena Kennedy, Maxine Peake and Juliet Stevenson
Are Palestinian Journalists Being Censored by Murder?
On April 25, Ahmad Abu Hussein became the second Palestinian journalist Israeli snipers shot to death while covering the Great March of Return demonstrations, a series of weekly, massive Palestinian….
My Fiery Protest Is Simply the Cry of My Very Soul
By Prof. Blatman a Holocaust researcher and head of the Institute for Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Just like Emile Zola, people of conscience are protesting against the leaders who have sent Israel’s politics and culture down to levels worthy of a fascist beer hall
Why Israel banned my play ‘Prisoners of the Occupation’
How to document and render visible the most hidden space in the Israeli occupation? Israel is making every effort to hide Palestinian prisons and other spaces of confinement. Much is….
Palestinians say “Their Independence, Our Nakba”
“Their Independence is our Nakba. The ethnic cleansing of 750,000 to one million indigenous Palestinians 70 years ago and turning them into refugees to establish a Jewish-majority state in Palestine is no cause for celebration. The Nakba is not a crime of the past, it is ongoing. We commemorate by asserting our right to return home and to live in freedom and dignity.”
Gaza is Under Siege But Not Alone! Let’s Build Towards a Military Embargo
Strengthening, mainstreaming and popularizing Palestinians’ call for a two-way military embargo on Israel is the most effective response to Israel’s ongoing massacre. This means working to end all weapons sales and purchases to and from Israel, and ending military or police partnerships with the Israeli state.