One of the greatest free speech threats in the West is the growing, multi-nation campaign literally to outlaw advocacy of boycotting Israel. People get arrested in Paris — the site….
The American Anthropological Association resolution pledging to honor the academic boycott of Israel just lost a membership vote by 2,423 to 2,384. The closeness of the tally illustrates how acutely….
An assault on democracy has begun in the United States of America and Europe. Its source is not the ‘Islamic fundamentalism’ that is regularly branded a threat to democracy, or right-wing demagogues who use fear of immigrants and radical Islam to foment hate. It comes, rather, from the mainstream of these societies.
Imad Barghouthi is Professor of Theoretical Space Plasma Physics at Al-Quds University, and has been unfairly arrested by Israeli police and sentenced to three months detention without charge.
Dr. Barghouthi is a renowned astrophysicist, who has worked for NASA and is widely published in international journals.
Join us in calling for his freedom and for the Palestinian right to education!
Palestinian astrophysicist Imad Barghouthi, a professor at Al-Quds University, is currently being held in Israeli administrative detention – imprisonment without charge or trial. His three-month sentence is indefinitely renewable on….
“Steven! Steven!” the man screamed, his East End cadence emphasizing the first syllable. “Why don’t you boycott the United States?” He repeated the refrain, approaching from behind until I could….
Israel’s academic elite is mobilised on behalf of the national project, and is well compensated by the regime. When its members shout things such as “fascism”, it’s appropriate that this criticism be directed at itself as well.
The membership of the world’s largest professional association of anthropologists, the American Anthropological Association (AAA), is now in the midst of an election that will determine whether or not the….
