Tamara Rasamny, a student at Columbia University who was arrested in April while participating in a pro-Palestine protest encampment on campus, was allowed to graduate and give her speech on Saturday.
During her speech (see video below), she reiterated her pro-Palestinian stance and called for the release of Israeli and Palestinian political prisoners.
Decades of conflict in the Gaza Strip have contributed to widely documented cultural heritage destruction, demonstrating a need to monitor vulnerable sites and enhance the empirical base. This article describes how the Gaza Maritime Archaeology Project (GAZAMAP 2022–2023) was developed to monitor coastal and near-coastal sites, collaboratively. Owing to the unprecedented destruction of heritage since October 2023, GAZAMAP’s scope has fundamentally shifted.
This brilliant speech yesterday by Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, on the cowardice of the university administration in calling in police to arrest students will be cited throughout history -– and will inspire generations of students for decades to come.
Chaos erupted late into the night at UCLA’s campus as pro and anti-Israel protesters clashed in scenes that escalated into ‘all-out brawls’, including an incident where a firework was thrown into a crowd of people. The violence began when a group of pro-Israel activists arrived on campus to dismantle the anti-Israel and pro-Palestine camp.
Al Jazeera’s Rob Reynolds joins us live now from Los Angeles to discuss the latest updates.
Amid the internal battle over the New York Times’s coverage of Israel’s war, top editors handed down a set of directives.
“Accomplices in a crime try to hide the evidence, and silence the witnesses.” British-Palestinian doctor Ghassan Abu Sittah, who has become known for his work in Gaza’s hospital, spoke outside of the German embassy in London after being detained and deported from Germany while trying to attend a conference where he would present evidence on the war in Gaza and his witness statement as a doctor working in its hospitals.
As Christians around the world celebrated Easter Sunday, Palestinian Christians from the occupied West Bank were prevented from reaching Jerusalem for Good Friday to walk the Via Dolorosa, the path Jesus is said to have followed on the way to his crucifixion more than 2,000 years ago. Meanwhile, Jesus’s birthplace of Bethlehem is uncharacteristically empty of tourists this year as Israel’s assault on Gaza and crackdown on the West Bank escalate. “Nothing can wash the blood from your hands,” said the Reverend Munther Isaac at an Easter vigil for Gaza on Saturday, about Western complicity in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. Isaac is a Palestinian Christian theologian and the pastor at the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem. He joins Democracy Now! to discuss the history of Palestinian Christians in Gaza, Israel’s occupation of Bethlehem and its strangling of freedoms in the West Bank, U.S. Christians’ support of Israel and more.
Maya Wind’s new book meticulously demonstrates how Israeli academic institutions were created to serve the Zionist colonization of Palestine. They continue to do so to this day while fueling Israel’s university-military-industrial complex.
A 15-year-old Palestinian boy has been dubbed ‘Gaza’s Newton’. He’s successfully generated electricity, using scrap items to light up his displaced family’s tent.
This is the truth about the ICJ ruling against Israel that most of our media is not talking about, with Mouin Rabbani, interviewed by Owen Jones.
