A French, a Palestinian, and a black woman all wade into a pool
Simone Manuel’s gold medal win in the Rio Olympics is no minor feat, and not just in the athletic sense. As Manuel herself acknowledges, her achievement is a slap in….
Category: Columns
Light in the Kafkaesque sanctuary of Israel’s Supreme Court
It’s enough for our judges to know why a journalist is detained without trial.
Israel’s desalination miracle, Santa Claus and other fairy tales
The ‘making the desert bloom’ myth has long masked Israel’s occupation and degradation of Palestinian natural resources
Palestinians Salute the Movement for Black Lives Emphasizing Common Struggle against Racial Oppression
Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) responds to Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) policy platform: “We pledge to firmly and consistently stand in solidarity with our black sisters and brothers in the United States and around the world by supporting the demands and policy proposals in this platform.”
Academic Boycott and Academic Activism: Progressives for Palestine
In 2016, a bill targeting organizations that choose to divest from Israel, AB 2844, was proposed in the California state legislature. In 2015, New York Governor Mario Cuomo also issued….
Argentinian Physical Society urges the Israeli government to abide to Academic freedom
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Bilal Kayed’s letter from prison on 48th day of strike: “Your struggles give me more determination for victory”
Palestinian prisoner Bilal Kayed, on his 48th day of hunger strike, issued the following letter today from inside Barzilai Hospital where he is held shackled hand and foot to his….
The late Palestinian national poet will continue to haunt Israel
Mahmoud Darwish insists on mentioning what Israelis don’t want to acknowledge: A great sin took place here when the State of Israel was founded in 1948.
Nature: Israel must release Palestinian physicist
The repeated imprisonment of the respected Palestinian astrophysicist Professor Imad Barghouthi, of Al-Quds University, has caused dismay in the international academic community. As a result a letter outlining both the abusive use of the Israeli legal system against him, and the wider pattern of Israeli restrictions on Palestinian academic freedom, was submitted to Nature. The letter was signed by 14 scientists, including leading physicist Freeman Dyson at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton; David Mumford, recipient of the Fields Medal 1974 (the “Nobel prize of math”); and Chandler Davis, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of Toronto.
Nature shortened the submitted letter drastically, omitting entirely the context of Israeli assaults on Palestinian higher education. What follows is, first, the letter as printed in Nature; and second, the text of the original letter.
Two open letters on behalf of Professor Barghouthi, signed by hundreds of scientists, were previously sent to the Israeli prime minister->http://www.csun.edu/ vcmth00m/IBletter.html] and to the [European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation.
EU: Israeli occupation is ‘root’ cause of violence
EU states, in an internal report drafted last year, have said the outbreak of Palestinian knife and car-ramming attacks against Israelis in Jerusalem is due, in large part, to Israel’s….