Brown University committee votes to divest from companies “facilitating human rights violations in Palestine”
The Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policies voted 6-2-1 in favor of divestment.
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Columbia College Student Council passes ballot initiative to hold Israel divestment referendum
Three years after the ballot initiative was first introduced to the Columbia College Student Council, elected representatives voted 25-12 via a secret ballot in favor of a referendum to gauge….
Scholars including Nobel Laureate George Smith and Noam Chomsky, demand release of Palestinian civil society leader US citizen and prisoner of conscience, Ubai Aboudi from Israeli military detention
NEW YORK—Ubai Aboudi, a US citizen and director of the Bisan Center for Research and Development was forcefully abducted by 12 Israeli military occupation soldiers at 3 a.m. on Nov…..
UPDATE: Birzeit University continues to lose international faculty as Israel persists in discriminatory policy
Heightened restrictions on Birzeit University’s right to hire and maintain international faculty persist into the 2019-2020 academic year. Israel has escalated what can only be understood as a policy whose….
‘What Do We Tell Kids Who Lost Classmates in an Israeli Strike?’: Gaza Reeling From Family’s Death
Relative of children who died says at visit to their school, where classmates paid tributes: ‘Why should they care that the army admitted it hit them by mistake?’
‘All that’s left are their school uniforms’: Israeli air strike kills eight Palestinian relatives
Sawarka family members were in bed when the attack took place after midnight on Wednesday, turning their homes to rubble
Palestinian family among dozens killed in Israel’s onslaught on Gaza Strip
At least 32 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes on besieged Palestinian territory this week
Israel is turning Palestinian students into criminals
Israeli authorities have arrested at least 64 Palestinian university students since the start of 2019. That number is only growing.
Israeli Face-recognition Startup Used in East Jerusalem, NBC Investigation Finds
Report confirms past Haaretz findings on AnyVision technology used to track West Bank Palestinians – but if used on Israeli citizens, it could be illegal
WhatsApp Sues an Israeli Tech Firm Whose Spyware Targeted Human-Rights Activists and Journalists
This spring, a team of engineers at WhatsApp detected a series of suspicious calls on the messaging service’s networks, many of them emanating from phone numbers in Sweden, the Netherlands,….