Israel and Palestine: Settler colonialism and academic freedom
In the last ten years, an old scholarly paradigm that was used for the historical analysis of European settler movements in various parts of the worlds, and in different periods,….
Category: Columns
Free speech on Israel under attack in universities
Immediate Threat to Academic Freedom and Freedom of Speech (BRICUP) * you are being asked to add your name to this letter of concern * You may have heard of….
Scholars ask to have their names added to ‘Professor Watchlist’
The newly inaugurated U.S. administration has created an atmosphere of violence, racism, Islamophobia, and anti-Semitism. A less discussed aspect of these attacks is on academic freedom. The 2016 election has….
Learning in the line of fire
Wala, 16, always finds a seat away from the windows. The girl is a student at the Hayel Abdul Hamid secondary school in Beit Hanoun, a United Nations facility in….
Israel and Palestine: Funeral for the two-state solution?
The Paris peace conference said direct negotiations could achieve peace, but it was nothing more than an empty ritual.
If you’re willing to support a boycott of US academic conferences over Trump’s ban, why not BDS?
Over 6,000 academics across the world have announced that they will boycott any academic conference held in the US until Trump’s travel ban—on refugees, and on men and women from….
UCC conference and Israel
Sir, – Academics for Palestine, a group of academics working in Ireland in support of Palestinian universities and academics, notes with the greatest concern reported attempts by the Israeli embassy….
The BDS struggle in US academia
A new generation of scholars continues the push for the academic boycott of Israel, despite setbacks and strong lobbies.
An Israeli delegation of Intellectuals and former Ambassadors submit the “Petition of 1200”: “Support for the Paris Peace Conference and Call To Recognize Palestine Now”
Tomorrow, Thursday 12.1.2017, a delegation of Israeli intellectuals and former ambassadors will meet with Helene Le Gal, Ambassador of France to Israel, in order to present a petition of support….
‘Progressive’ Defenders of the Racial State: Reflections on the Modern Language Association BDS vote
The news is in: on Saturday, a resolution to endorse the Palestinian call for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions was rejected by the Delegate Assembly of the Modern Language….