Technion, incubator of the student-soldier elite
A slightly modified version of this article was published on the site Orient XXI.
Category: Columns
Israel’s army and schools work hand in hand, say teachers
Close ties means Israeli pupils are being raised to be “good soldiers” rather than good citizens
Thomas Blom Hansen: Why I Support the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions
[This essay originally appeared on Anthropology News as part of an exchange on the boycott and anthropology]
By Thomas Blom Hansen (Stanford U)
In its new agreement with the Technion, the École Polytechnique maintains its disregard for international law and ethics
Economic policy has rarely been so ineffectual. Unemployment continues to rise, poverty and precarity likewise, social fractures grow. Meanwhile the budget deficit, in whose name so much has been sacrificed….
Using Palestinians as a human shield against BDS
In response to the Reykjavik City Council’s — since reversed — decision to boycott Israeli goods until the occupation is ended, Israeli politician Yair Lapid wrote an open letter to the Icelandic people titled ‘The Hypocrisy of Boycott.’ In his oped, Lapid argued that Israel should not be boycotted because doing so would harm its Arab citizens. One of those citizens responds.
Partha Chatterjee: Why I Support the Boycott of Israeli Institutions
[Savage Minds is honored to publish this essay by Partha Chatterjee, Professor of Anthropology and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University, and of the Centre for the Studies of Social Sciences in Calcutta. He is a founding member of the Subaltern Studies Collective.]
Obama must end support for Israeli apartheid against Palestinian scholars
US President Barack Obama, in a recent interview with Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic, reaffirmed his support and love for Israel because, as he claims, “it is a genuine democracy….
Israeli Jews Address the Palestinian Boycott Call
– The Challenge of the BDS By Adi Ophir, South Atlantic Quarterly (2015) 114(3): 652-661; doi:10.1215/00382876-3130800 – BDS Is As Good As It Gets By Dov Michaeli Abstract: This essay….
2015 Black Solidarity Statement with Palestine
Over 1,000 Black activists, artists, scholars, students and organizations have signed the 2015 Black Solidarity Statement with Palestine, including: Angela Davis | Cornel West | Mumia Abu-Jamal | Talib Kweli | The Dream Defenders | Malcolm X Grassroots Movement | Organization for Black Struggle – St. Louis