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Signatories of the Declaration on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid in Historic Palestine
* List of the 1,111 signatories of the Declaration on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid in Historic Palestine (last update: September 4, 2021)
* Institutional affiliations are given only for identification purposes
Declaration on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid in Historic Palestine
Over 1,000 scholars, artists and intellectuals from more than 45 countries have signed the following declaration calling for the dismantling of the apartheid regime set up on the territory of historic Palestine and the establishment of a democratic constitutional arrangement that grants all its inhabitants equal rights and duties. The signatories include many distinguished figures, including the Nobel Peace Prize laureates Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and Mairead Maguire, the Nobel Chemistry Laureate George Smith, academics with legal expertise Monique Chemillier-Gendreau, John Dugard and Richard Falk, scholars Étienne Balibar, Hagit Borer, Ivar Ekeland, Suad Joseph, Edgar Morin, Jacques Rancière, Roshdi Rashed and Gayatri Spivak, health researcher Sir Iain Chalmers, composer Brian Eno, musician Roger Waters, author Ahdaf Soueif, economist and former Assistant Secretary-General of the UN Sir Richard Jolly, former Vice President European Parliament Luisa Morgantini, South African politician and veteran anti-apartheid leader Ronnie Kasrils and Canadian peace activist and former national leader of the Green Party of Canada Joan Russow.
Who Was Edward Said? Biographically Interpreted and Existentially Recollected
[Prefatory Note: This post is an edited text of Remarks on 30 June 2021 at the opening on the Book Launch of Timothy Brennan’s PLACES OF MIND: A LIFE OF EDWARD SAID (2021), an event under the auspices of the Cambridge Centre of Palestinian Studies, moderated by its director, Dr. Makram Khoury-Machool. Also participating in the discussion of Professor Brennan’s book Prof. As’ad Abu Khali and Dr. Kamal Khalef Al-Tawll.]
After pressure from pro-Israel group, Scientific American removes health care workers’ op-ed calling for boycott
The Scientific American has removed a piece calling for solidarity with Palestinians from its website after being pressured by pro-Israel groups. On June 2nd the magazine published “As Health Care….
Death of an Abbas Opponent in Palestinian Detention Stokes Revulsion Toward His Rule
The Palestinian Authority and its security agencies aren’t capable of repairing their contemptuous and alienated approach to their own people
Interview: Novelist and Political Commentator Ahdaf Soueif
Halfway into 2021 and my newsfeed is almost consistently grim. To my weary and untrained eye, everything seems to be rising. From pandemic death tolls to sea levels to right-wing….
CPS | The Israeli academy and the Palestinian struggle
Subject: CPS | The Israeli academy and the Palestinian struggle Description: Accounts of recent events on university campuses For eleven days in May 2021, the world watched in horror as….
CUNY Union Passes Resolution Demanding End to All U.S. Aid to Israel
Rank-and-file activists in CUNY’s faculty and staff union fought against bureaucratic machinations to pass a resolution calling for internal discussions of BDS and demanding that Joe Biden end all aid to Israel and other countries participating in human rights violations.








