CO’s Tair and Tanya go to prison for refusing to service in the IDF
On Sunday (Jan. 31), at 12:00 noon, Tair Kaminer returns to the IDF Induction Center to reaffirm to officers there her intention to refuse service in the IDF. This is….
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Israeli forces storm al-Quds University, seize documents
JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Hundreds of Israeli soldiers stormed Abu Dis’ al-Quds Open University early Friday and confiscated equipment and documents belonging to its student union, staff members told Ma’an. Hassan….
170 academics at Italian universities call for boycott of Israeli institutions
Launch of the Stop Technion campaign urges suspension of all academic collaboration with the Haifa-based technical institute Italian initiative part of a growing global trend of scholars taking a stand….
Angoulême Festival of Comics Drops Sodastream
Organizers calling on the Angoulême International Festival of Comics (FIBD) to drop its partnership with the Israeli company Sodastream announced victory today in an email to the signatories of two….
Why Israel’s schools merit a U.S. boycott
At its annual convention this week, the Modern Language Assn., which represents 26,000 language and literature scholars, will become the latest academic body to consider the merits of adopting a….
Birzeit University condemns Israeli ‘military attack’ on campus
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Birzeit University on Monday condemned an Israeli army raid into its campus in Ramallah overnight, during which it said Israeli forces confiscated and damaged university equipment. “Birzeit….
FREE MOHAMMED FAISAL ABUSAKHA, trainer and performer of the Palestinian Circus School
UPDATE December 31, 2015 We are outraged and very sad to inform you all that our friend and colleague Mohammad Abu Sakha was sentenced to six months in administrative detention…..
Israel bans novel on Arab-Jewish romance from schools for ‘threatening Jewish identity’
Move comes despite the fact that the official responsible for teaching of literature in secular state schools recommended the book for use in advanced literature classes, as did a professional committee of academics and educators.
BDS in 2015: Seven ways our movement broke new ground against Israeli settler-colonialism and apartheid
The year 2015 will be remembered as the year that Palestinian popular resistance spread across historic Palestine and that saw tens of thousands of Palestinians take to the streets to….
BDS: full 2015 round-up
January – Israel shows growing concern at growth of BDS US student divestment movement flourishes The student government at the University of California Davis votes in favor of a resolution….