Defend Academic Freedom at San Francisco State
Dear President Wong and CSU Board of Trustees: We undersigned want to express opposition to the ongoing defamation, intimidation, and assaults against the academic freedom of SFSU faculty members by….
Category: Columns
Notes from a Finalist: On the cancelled Edward Said Professorship search at Cal State Fresno
Steven Salaita recently stated, “If an entire nationality/ethnic group/political concern is going to be systematically excluded from Western universities, then the sources of that exclusion need to be vigorously identified….
What are old photos and films of Palestinians doing in the IDF archive?
Palestinian photos and films seized by Israeli troops have been gathering dust in the army and Defense Ministry archives until Dr. Rona Sela, a curator and art historian, exposed them. The material presents an alternative to the Zionist history that denied the Palestinians’ existence here, she says
Ehud Barak Warns: Israel Faces ‘Slippery Slope’ Toward Apartheid
If Israel keeps controlling Palestinians, ‘inevitable’ result will be ‘either non-Jewish or non-democratic’ state, former Israeli PM tells Conflict Zone’s Tim Sebastian in Deutsche Welle TV interview
Israel’s Ethics Code for Professors Would Encourage More Academic Boycotts, Warns U.S. Union Head
Almost as if Naftali Bennett ‘wants the backlash and damage,’ says Randi Weingarten, president of America’s largest teachers’ union
Israel’s ‘Ethics Code’ to Formally Suppress Academic Freedom, Palestinians Urge Intensifying BDS
Israel’s Minister of Education has proposed a university “ethics code” that would institutionalize an existing unstated policy stifling academic freedom
For Palestinians, the 1967 War Remains an Enduring, Painful Wound
After years of occupation and dispossession, the time for Palestinian freedom is now.
Major Chilean Universities Heed BDS Call, Cancel Events Sponsored by Israeli Embassy
Two Chilean universities cancel events sponsored by the Israeli embassy which featured a speaker directing illegal archaeological digs in the occupied Palestinian West Bank.
If Israel were smart: In Gaza
My last visit to Gaza had been in May 2014, just before Israel launched Operation Protective Edge, an assault that resulted in the deaths of more than two thousand Gazans….
LGBTQ Israelis come out against occupation and homophobia
In response to online homophobic attacks, over 50 LGBTQ left-wing activists and NGO workers in Israel-Palestine release a statement condemning the occupation, racism and pinkwashing.