Category: Columns
Right of education for 1 million Palestinian children at risk
Scores of Palestinian children continue to struggle to realize their right to education as students return to school last week. School demolitions, confiscation of equipment, double shifts, inability to prioritise education and underfunding have complicated children’s access to education.
War crimes and open wounds: The physician who took on Israeli segregation
On the occasion of her 80th birthday, Ruchama Marton, the founder of Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, talks about the atrocities she witnessed as a soldier, the enduring power of feminism, and why only outside help has a chance of ending Israel’s military rule over the Palestinians.
Statement in support of the 831 academic and administrative staff at Gaza universities placed on forced early retirement
AURDIP joins USACBI to express solidarity with the 831 academic and administrative staff at Gaza universities placed on forced early retirement. It strongly condemns the recent measures by the Palestinian Authority which imposed this early retirement on our colleagues in Gaza.
Condemnations of Israeli occupation aren’t enough
Europeans, your denunciations are seen by Israel as lacking urgency. You must implement painful sanctions
Jewish Voice for Peace Urges Young Jews to Boycott Birthright Israel
Since 1999, the Birthright Israel program has sent over 500,000 Jewish young adults on a free ten-day trip to Israel, in the name of strengthening Jewish identity and connection to the Jewish state. But while all Jews worldwide are handed this free trip, and, furthermore, automatic citizenship if they choose to immigrate to Israel, Palestinians are barred from returning to the homes and villages where their ancestors lived for centuries.
Charlottesville Through a Glass Darkly
I suggest that Zionists fond of smearing critics of Israel as ‘anti-Semites’ take a sobering look at the VICE news clip of the white nationalist torch march through the campus….
The miraculous tale of the West Bank’s first university hospital and its ‘very Israeli’ CEO
Meet the man who performed Palestine’s first-ever artificial heart transplant
Call to boycott the forthcoming FEBS congress in Jerusalem
Dear Colleagues, We are a group of Palestinian, Israeli, and international scientists and academics, and we write to urge you to cancel your participation in the forthcoming congress in Jerusalem….
Congress should think twice on the Israel Anti-Boycott Act
In July, Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland and Republican Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio introduced a bill in the Senate, the “Israel Anti-Boycott Act.” A similar bill was placed….