‘We want to exchange our personal experiences of war, Sir’
This day is carved in my memory. As all academics in Gaza, I had given much thought to my students who were suffering all sorts of agonies and worries caused….
Category: Columns
I am an Arab, Palestinian and citizen of Israel – I have the right to define my own identity
The State of Israel never accepted us as citizens with equal rights, writes filmmaker Suha Arraf. From the day the state was established, we were marked as the enemy and treated with racial discrimination in all areas of life. Why, then, am I expected to represent Israel with pride?
LIS Practitioners and Scholars Support Steven Salaita
As Library and Information Science (LIS) practitioners, students and scholars, we are committed to the principles of our field: to the free access to and flow of information and to the intellectual freedom….
Political Pressure as medicine
120 Flemish physicians (updated to 140) call for an economic and military embargo against Israel and join the International call which was published this week in The Lancet
The Historical Perspective of the 2014 Gaza Massacre
People in Gaza and elsewhere in Palestine feel disappointed at the lack of any significant international reaction to the carnage and destruction the Israeli assault has so far left behind….
Open letter Gaza – Dutch Academic and affiliates
– See also : International Institute of Social Studies in the Hague (ISS) staff and researchers endorse BDS against Israel
If you are an academic or employee of a university or a Dutch High School and want to sign the letter below, send an email with your name, your title and your institution to dutchacademiciopenlettergaza@gmail.com
Gaza will rise from its ashes: Will Israel recover sanity?
The Israeli national consensus behind the massacre in Gaza is the result of a fifteen year old process of deterioration of Israeli society, both politically and ethically, a process that….
Desmond Tutu’s plea to the people of Israel: Liberate yourselves by liberating Palestine
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, in an exclusive article for Haaretz, calls for a global boycott of Israel and urges Israelis and Palestinians to look beyond their leaders for a sustainable solution to the crisis in the Holy Land.
Why Anthropologists Must Boycott: Israeli Attacks on Academic Freedom
This is the second post in a series advocating that the AAA endorse an academic boycott against Israel. For more general information on BDS, see our first post. This past….