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…..
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.
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….
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….
The university community of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) is the first in Spain to pass a motion supporting Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel. However this decision is not binding on the leadership of the university.
There can’t be many universities around the world where an occupying army has built a firing range on campus. But that is the reality for Palestine Technical University in the….
GENEVA (18 December 2015) – United Nations independent experts today expressed grave concerns at continued reports that human rights defenders are being subjected to physical attacks, harassment, arrest and detention,….
Some 204 South African academics have signed a declaration committing themselves to supporting the rights of the Palestinian people. Expressing concern with “Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian land” and “the….
Denmark’s largest commercial pension fund has blacklisted HeidelbergCement, over the German company’s links to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. PFA Pension announced the exclusion on its website, stating….
Instead, Palestinian youths throw stones and the army responds with gunfire and tear gas.
