BDS impact round up for 2016
Israel’s war of repression has failed to stop the continued growth of the BDS movement for Palestinian rights
Category: Columns
Prominent Liberal Intellectuals Speak Out For The First Time For A Selective Boycott Of Israel — But Is It Enough?
The New York Review of Books is not known as a venue for the venting of debates on Israel-Palestine, but that is exactly what has happened. Recently, two statements were….
BDS and the shattering of liberal Zionist taboos
“We welcome the statement’s shattering of the taboo against boycotting Israeli entities that are complicit in—at least selective—violations of Palestinian human rights”, wrote Angela Y. Davis, Chandler Davis, Richard A…..
Habima Theater and the need for a cultural boycott of Israel
The national theater’s upcoming performance in Kiryat Arba settlement proves that boycotts against Israeli activity in the West Bank alone will never destabilize the occupation.
California Scholars for Academic Freedom lay out recent history of assaults on universities regarding academic freedom, the right of free speech and dissent
California Scholars for Academic Freedom (CS4AF) a group of over 200 scholars at twenty California institutions of higher learning, urge a renewed and strong support by university administrators for academic freedom and the right to free speech and dissent in light of an alarming recent history of assaults on academic freedom.
Israel and Academic Freedom: a Closed Book
You have a 17-year-old daughter… let’s call her Rachel, or perhaps Nadia… raised in a home where dialogue, debate and disagreement have been served as so much a mainstay of….
We are the (Norwegian) artists responsible for the satirical and political art piece “Nationaltheatret beklager”
PRESS RELEASE BY NORWEGIAN ARTISTS
Is Zionist a rude word?
Words trail meanings beyond their formal definitions. Raymond Williams in his Key Words leads us through the dizzying journeys that words we thought we knew well have taken over their….
Ghassan Hage’s letter responding to an invitation to give the keynote at the Anthropological Association of Israel conference and the president’s reply
I had initially asked the president of the Israeli Anthropological Association who invited me, Nir Avieli, if he wanted his invitation published. As I didn’t get an initial response i assumed he didn’t. But he has sent me his considered response to my reply. So here they are both for the records. As you can see both my response and Nir’s are polite and even cordial despite the differences, and if people want to comment, I’d rather if people keep the same tone of exchange.–Ghassan Hage