Letter from Columbia student Ranjani Srinivasan after fleeing the United States to Canada
Columbia PhD student Ranjani Srinivasan self-deported after her F-1 visa was revoked. In this letter, she explains how she feels.
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Columbia University caves to demands to restore $400m from Trump administration
Measures include empowering security officers to arrest people, and reassigning control of Middle East department
Letter from a Palestinian Political Prisoner in Louisiana March 18, 2025
My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law.
Netanyahu warns Israel’s renewed Gaza offensive ‘is only the beginning’
Israeli PM says attacks will continue until Hamas is destroyed and hostages freed, as airstrikes kill hundreds
‘Our enemies commit genocide, not our friends’: Leading genocide scholar and lawyer William Schabas on the double standards of calling out Israel’s horrific crimes in Gaza
The New Arab Meets: Lawyer William Schabas to examine why Israel’s genocide in Gaza, including its self-defence rhetoric, are unlikely to succeed in court
Academic Freedom | Letter to the University of Lausanne about Prof. Joseph Daher
We write on behalf of the Academic Freedom Committee of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES), of the Société des études du Moyen-Orient et du monde musulman (SEMOMM) and of the Società per gli Studi sul Medio Oriente (SeSaMO) to express our grave concern about the treatment of Prof. Joseph Daher.
At Harvard Talk, Former Israeli PM Joked He Would Give Exploding Pagers to Protesters
Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett joked to hundreds of people about sending explosive devices to dissenting event attendees at a talk at the Harvard Business School on Thursday, according to six people present at the discussion.
“Antisemitism” and Antisemitism
The abuse of the word and the spread of the phenomenon
Pakistani architect Dr Yasmeen Lari refuses Israel’s Wolf Prize over Gaza genocide
Lari expressed gratitude for the Wolf Prize but refused to accept it due to the ongoing situation in Gaza
University of Amsterdam: no renewal of exchange with Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The University of Amsterdam (UvA) will stop student exchange with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for now due to the risk of human rights violations by the Israeli university. The UvA came to this decision after a recommendation from a special, independent committee.