Columbia University was given a ransom note by the Trump administration
Katherine Franke: “This is very important new news: today Columbia University was given a ransom note by the Trump administration.”
Source: AURDIP
Germany and Israel: from historical responsibility to criminal complicity
Germany, which brandishes the « Staatsräson » (raison d’état) as the absolute justification for its support of Israel, hijacks the memory of the Holocaust to cover up the genocide in Gaza. This posture is accompanied by a fierce McCarthyism against any dissenting voice, equating criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism. This AURDIP report examines the mechanisms of this drift, its consequences and the rare attempts at resistance.
AURDIP Letter to the President of New York University
On December 11 and 12, NYU students and faculty peacefully demonstrated in support of Palestine. Police intervened at the request of the administration, making arrests, and three faculty members were declared “persona non grata” (sic) on campus, an unprecedented, arbitrary, and outrageous sanction.
Great demonstration / Breaking the Wall of Silence: Protection of the Palestinian people
Everyone in Strasbourg on Wednesday 27 November at 12.30pm
Collective departures (bus / train / cars) will be organised from several french cities and Brussels – contact: afps@france-palestine.org
Losing academic integrity in favor of whitewashing the Israeli army in the Occupied Territories
“On 6 March 2024, Barak Medina and Anna Peters published an article in the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) with a question as their title: “Fighting Terror with Military Means?”… Why do we bother to write against another case of grave violation of basic academic standards? There are several reasons for making our rejection of Medina’s and Peter’s declared support for the Israeli army public.” By S.B. & A.M. The authors, who sign with initials for security reasons, are an Israeli and a German academics.
Urgent Appeal to Suspend Israel’s Participation in EU Research Programs Following ICJ Interim Order on Gaza Genocide
AURDIP and four European academic organizations urge the EU to suspend Israel’s participation in EU research programs following the International Court of Justice’s interim order, which found plausible claims of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The letter highlights Israel’s violations of international law and criticizes EU funding that may support these actions. It calls for compliance with the ICJ order and an end to EU support for Israel until it adheres to international law and ethical standards.
The invocation of Amalek in Israel: from extremist religious rhetoric to a totalitarian project culminating in the genocide in Gaza
This AURDIP report focuses on a fundamental aspect of the anatomy of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. It shows that the invocation of Amalek in Israeli public discourse has shifted in recent decades from extremist religious rhetoric to ideological indoctrination in the social and political arena. At the end of a long process initiated in 1967 in the aftermath of the Six Day War, it has now become a political agenda leading to the development of an increasingly violent and aggressive policy of colonization and apartheid, culminating in the ongoing genocide for which Amalek has become the code name.
Ivar Ekeland invited to a webinar of the Palestine Solidarity Student Organization of the University of Tokyo
Title: Palestinian Universities: Past, Present, Future
Saturday, May 18th, 19:00-20:30 (Tokyo time), corresponding 12:00-13:30 (Paris time)
To participate to the webinar, you must register by completing the form below. The zoom link will be sent to registered emails.
https://forms.gle/a6Sk2uyHzANcRUb18 (English version)
https://forms.gle/uHZ6r4BvDNj2ziAy8 (Japanese version)
Disrupting the Colonial Gaze: Gaza and Israel after October 7th
The Gaza experiment is ongoing, and it is taking the world further than any of us would have thought possible. In our article, The New Politics of Exclusion: Gaza as Prologue, published more than two years ago, we claimed that Israel had turned Gaza into a human laboratory where entirely new conditions were artificially created.
Now we know. The end of the Gaza experiment is no longer to ensure separation or repudiation, but elimination through genocidal slaughter, or, more euphemistically, “forced” or “voluntary” emigration to other lands largely unwilling to accept them.
By Ivar Ekeland and Sara Roy
CNRS must comply with ICJ order and end all scientific cooperation with Israel
Ivar Ekeland, president of AURDIP, wrote to Antoine Petit, President and CEO of the CNRS, to express surprise that the CNRS is relaunching new Franco-Israeli cooperation projects after the order of the International Court of Justice (ICJ ) of January 26, 2024 which highlights the strong risks that Israel is currently committing genocide in Gaza.