Steven Salaita and Katherine Franke spoke at Brooklyn College tonight; I moderated the discussion. Three quick comments. First, the event happened. We had an actual conversation about Israel/Palestine, BDS, Zionism,….
Last night the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) undergraduate student government voted 8-2-2 to pass a resolution calling on the university to divest from companies profiting from Israeli human….
Close to 13,000 Palestinian and international students go through at least one of 600 checkpoints in the West Bank to attend Al Quds University, the only Arab University in East….
Despite the social, political and economic significance of the Middle East, past and present, this region remains poorly understood and often ignored within the geography discipline. By hosting the 7th….
For years, the US-based information technology giant Hewlett-Packard has been successfully targeted by the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement over its material support for the Israeli occupation of Palestine…..
Israel has “indefinitely” banned Norwegian doctor and activist Mads Gilbert, who has provided medical care for Palestinians in Gaza for 15 years, from entering the coastal enclave. “I was rejected….
Around 70 people gather at Manara Square in Ramallah on a Wednesday afternoon. Excited, they are waiting for the march to begin while enjoying the juggling performances of several artists…..
More than 300 human rights groups, trade unions and political parties from across Europe have called for the EU to hold Israel accountable for its massacre of Gaza earlier this….
This summer on TV and computer screens across America, Operation Protective Edge brought the realities of the Israeli occupation of Palestine to the mainstream consciousness once again. The facts of….
Dozens of activists disrupted an Israeli-government backed film screening at the Cinemed 2014 festival in Montpellier, southern France, on Sunday, forcing the showing to be abandoned. As the video shows,….
