With the Great Return March, Palestinians Are Demanding a Life of Dignity
The Nakba is not a just a memory, it is an ongoing reality. We can accept that we all must eventually die; in Gaza, the tragedy is that we don’t get to live.
Category: Columns
What I saw at a Shin Bet lecture at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University
After a Shin Bet recruitment event, all of my ethical and academic senses tell me that an academic institution should not collaborate with secret services anywhere – much less in Israel
Hebrew University Recruits Future Shin Bet Torturers and Assassins
There are myriad ways in which Israeli academic institutions promote the Occupation and the national security state. From embedding the IDF in technical high schools from which the army recruits….
We are not Free until the Palestinians are Free: Boycott Study Abroad in Israel!
Boycott study abroad in Israel! Sign here to take the pledge.
How Stephen Hawking supported the Palestinian cause
The renowned scientist, who has passed away, will be remembered not only for his work, but his support for Palestine.
An open letter to the EU Commission: Stop funding the Israeli Occupation
In preparation for the EU’s post-2020 budget you have launched a public consultation on the use of EU funds in the area of investment, research and innovation. Clicking the link….
Towards Ending EU Complicity in Maintaining Israel’s Illegal Settlements and Other Serious Human Rights Violations
[Omar Barghouti, Palestinian human rights activist and co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, addressed the European Parliament on Wednesday at the invitation of Portuguese MEP Ana Gomes to take part in a discussion panel on “The Israeli Settlements in Palestine and the European Union”. This is the text of his speech.]
Palestinian Performing Arts Community Urges Renowned Violinist André Rieu to Cancel Shows in Tel Aviv
In an open letter, Palestinian performing arts collectives and cultural centers call on the famed Dutch violinist to respect the Palestinian nonviolent picket line and cancel his performances in Tel Aviv.
Israel’s systematic violence against Palestinian women
Crucial to Israeli colonialism is an attempt at the destruction of Palestinian society. This is part of a bid to secure demographic majority over non-Jewish people across all of historic….
For an Institute of Political Studies united in solidarity Call for support – No to partnerships complicit in apartheid
This petition is an objection to the partnership signed between Rennes Institute of Political Studies (France) and Tel Aviv University (TAU) aimed at researchers, PhD students and university professors. It defends on a wider scale the adoption of a charter commiting Rennes Institute of Political Studies not to sign any partership with israeli universities nor universities involved in human rights abuses.