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The Virology of Ideas — An Indispensable Pandemic
On March 9, 2022, Nobel laureate George Smith gave the inaugural Bisan Lecture. He spoke of the “ideosphere,” the teeming culture of ideas interacting and mutating much the way viruses do in the biosphere. He presented scientific discovery as a communal process, in which individuals contribute small mutations to the existing flux of ideas. This generous and democratic perspective was contrasted with the authoritarian restrictions faced by the Palestinian people under occupation. His lecture was followed by an interesting question and answer period. More than a hundred people followed the event on Zoom making this inaugural Bisan lecture a great success.
Israel to Decide for Palestinians Which Foreign Lecturers Can Teach at West Bank Universities
A set of procedures published by the Defense Ministry puts further restrictions on who can enter, work and stay in the West Bank
On Watching Ukraine Through Palestinian Eyes
The rightful outpouring of support for Ukraine teaches us that the West can condemn occupation when it wants to.
US accused of hypocrisy for supporting sanctions against Russia but not Israel
Critics compare Israeli military actions of Palestinian territories with Russian invasion of Ukraine but pro-Israel groups dismiss allegations as false parallels The US and some of its European allies are….
Israeli forces shoot, kill 15-year-old Palestinian boy near Jerusalem
Ramallah, March 7, 2022—Israeli forces shot and killed a 15-year-old Palestinian boy with live ammunition in the central occupied West Bank yesterday evening. An Israeli soldier shot and killed 15-year-old….
A medical school in the service of colonialism
Ariel University’s new medicine faculty is part of a wider effort to normalize illegal settlements — and Israel’s national medical body is defending it.
Want to understand Putin’s invasion? Look at Israel’s occupation
The way Putin frames Russian state violence in Ukraine is similar to the rhetoric Israel has been using in its wars against Palestinians for decades.
Russia’s invasion should be a mirror for Israeli society
On Saturday night, two days after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, thousands of Israelis, most of them from former Soviet republics, took to the streets of Tel Aviv. Draped….
Israeli forces shoot, kill 13-year-old Palestinian boy near Bethlehem
Ramallah, February 23, 2022—Israeli forces shot and killed a 13-year-old Palestinian boy with live ammunition in the central occupied West Bank yesterday. An Israeli soldier fatally shot Mohammad Rezq Shehadeh….