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Bisan Lecture Series – The Palestine Lens: A Conversation with Annemarie Jacir

Posted on February 8, 2024February 8, 2024 | Scientists for Palestine

The upcoming Bisan Lecture webinar scheduled for Wednesday, February 14th, at 7 pm Palestine time (6 pm Central European Time, 12 noon US Eastern time). We are honored to host acclaimed Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir for an engaging conversation with George Smith, Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry and member of our Steering Committee, titled 'The Palestine Lens: A Conversation with Annemarie Jacir.' (English with simultaneous Arabic translation for those who wish) You can register for the webinar by clicking here!

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CNN staff say network’s pro-Israel slant amounts to ‘journalistic malpractice’

Posted on February 6, 2024February 6, 2024 | Chris McGreal | The Guardian

Insiders say pressure from the top results in credulous reporting of Israeli claims and silencing of Palestinian perspectives

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Belgium to summon Israel ambassador due to bombing of Gaza office building

Posted on February 4, 2024February 4, 2024 | Middle East Monitor

Belgium’s Foreign Minister, Hadja Lahbib, has stated that the Israeli ambassador will be summoned following the destruction of the office building in Gaza which was housing the Belgian Agency for Development Cooperation (Enabel) due to Israeli airstrikes.

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Banned then backtracked

Posted on February 4, 2024February 4, 2024 | Debbie Becher | Columbia Spectator

We, as a community, need to celebrate that the administration finally backtracked from its blatant attempt to suppress academic freedom.

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Israel Held 82-year-old Gaza Woman With Alzheimer’s for Two Months as an ‘Unlawful Combatant’

Posted on February 2, 2024February 2, 2024 | Amira Hass | Haaretz

Israeli soldiers arrested Fahamiya Khalidi in early December at a school in Gaza after she fled her home due to IDF shelling. She was moved to Damon prison, where she was refused a meeting with an attorney and was only freed after an appeal

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Israeli Army Occupies Gaza Homes – Then Burns Them Down

Posted on February 2, 2024February 2, 2024 | Yaniv Kubovich | Haaretz

Israeli soldiers have begun in recent weeks to set fire to homes in the Gaza Strip, following direct orders from their commanders, without the necessary legal permission to do so, according to information obtained by Haaretz.

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Ireland in discussion with some member states over review of EU-Israel agreement – Taoiseach

Posted on February 2, 2024February 3, 2024 | Tony Connelly | Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ)

The Taoiseach has said that Ireland is in discussion with a number of EU member states who want a review of the EU-Israel Association Agreement on the basis that Israel may be breaching the agreement’s human rights clause.

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U.S. Court Concludes Israel’s Assault on Gaza Is Plausible Case of Genocide

Posted on February 1, 2024February 1, 2024 | Center for Constitutional Rights

While Dismissing Case on Jurisdictional Grounds, U.S. Judge “Implores” Biden Administration to Stop its “Unflagging Support” for Israel’s Ongoing Siege of the Palestinian People in Gaza

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‘We are dying slowly:’ Palestinians are eating grass and drinking polluted water as famine looms across Gaza

Posted on January 31, 2024January 31, 2024 | Rosa Rahimi | Sana Noor Haq | CNN

The gap between what Palestinian civilians need and what’s been given is enormous

After the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, the United Nations has estimated Palestinians need more than $1.2 billion in urgent humanitarian relief, with more than 90% of that for Gaza residents. So far, just over half of the required emergency funding has been provided.

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War on Gaza: Israeli sniper kills renowned Palestinian psychologist Fadel Abu Hein

Posted on January 29, 2024January 29, 2024 | Nadda Osman | Middle East Eye

Tributes are pouring in to renowned Al-Aqsa University academic who focused on trauma arising from conflict