Palestine solidarity: Women, children, gays – and straight men too
By pandering to mainstream feminist and LGBTQ agendas, one is suggesting that straight Palestinian men are eminently killable.
Category: Columns
Apartheid is not just a metaphor
Focusing on the complicity of Israeli universities in maintaining the occupation of Palestine, and on the repression of academic and political freedom for Palestinians, a new collection of essays, Against Apartheid: The Case for Boycotting Israeli Universities, edited by Ashley Dawson and Bill V. Mullen, explains why scholars and students around the world should cut all ties with Israeli institutions.
The following presentation by Ashley Dawson was one of several at the New York City launch event for the book.
YouTube becomes Israel’s new battleground against Palestinians
Once it fell to politicians and diplomats to solve international conflicts. Now, according to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, responsibility lies with social media. Tzipi Hotovely, Israel’s deputy foreign minister,….
Today’s Trumbo: Try telling academic critics of Israel McCarthyism is behind us
“Trumbo,” starring Bryan Cranston as Academy Award-winning Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, tells the sordid and tragic story of the anti-communist witch hunt commonly referred to as the “Red Scare,” which….
“Dialogue” isn’t enough to address the Israel-Palestine issue: A prominent academic organization endorses a boycott of Israeli institutions and support of BDS
The American Anthropological Association has taken up BDS as a human rights issue
Amnesty international : Save the palestinian poet and artist Ashraf Fayadh
Why this is important
Edward Said’s Humanism versus the U.S. State Department’s Anti-Semitism
[Richard Falk’s Prefatory Note: This post consists of my written text for a public presentation on the theme of “Edward Said’s Humanism and the Rejection of the State Department’s Definition of Anti-Semitism” at a conference at Fresno State University, Nov. 6, 2015 bearing the title “Universities at the Crossroads: The Assault on Academic Freedom,” which was the last event of the “Edward Said Lecture Series” organized by Professor Vida Samiian of the Department of Linguistics at FSU. My talk as given departed considerably from this text.]
Dialogue vs. BDS? Responding to arguments against an academic boycott of Israel
On Tuesday, October 27, a full-page advertisement appeared in The Guardian, announcing the support of more than 300 UK-based scholars for an academic boycott of Israel. A week on, the….
Academics and Israel
Sir, – As scholars associated with Irish institutions of higher education, north and south, we are deeply disturbed by Israel’s ongoing illegal occupation of Palestinian land, the intolerable human rights….