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Apartheid is not just a metaphor
Focusing on the complicity of Israeli universities in maintaining the occupation of Palestine, and on the repression of academic and political freedom for Palestinians, a new collection of essays, Against Apartheid: The Case for Boycotting Israeli Universities, edited by Ashley Dawson and Bill V. Mullen, explains why scholars and students around the world should cut all ties with Israeli institutions.
The following presentation by Ashley Dawson was one of several at the New York City launch event for the book.
Number of Palestinian children in Israeli prisons doubles
Marah Bakir, 16, was leaving school in occupied East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood on 12 October when she was shot and injured by Israeli police. They allege she intended to….
YouTube becomes Israel’s new battleground against Palestinians
Once it fell to politicians and diplomats to solve international conflicts. Now, according to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, responsibility lies with social media. Tzipi Hotovely, Israel’s deputy foreign minister,….
Today’s Trumbo: Try telling academic critics of Israel McCarthyism is behind us
“Trumbo,” starring Bryan Cranston as Academy Award-winning Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, tells the sordid and tragic story of the anti-communist witch hunt commonly referred to as the “Red Scare,” which….
San Jose State University becomes first California State University to pass student government BDS resolution
The following press release was issued by Students for Justice in Palestine at San Jose State University: San Jose State University Students Pass Resolution to Divest from Corporations that profit….
To bring an end to Israeli apartheid, support the boycott campaign!
The international BDS (Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions) campaign is a citizen, anti-racist, non-violent response to the impunity of the State of Israel. All of us can take part in it to show our….
National Women’s Studies Association votes in favor of BDS and in support of contingent faculty!
An unprecedented number of National Women’s Studies Association members cast votes in support of two recommendations.
Israel to Shut Down the Only Palestinian Theatre in Jerusalem
The Palestinian National Theatre “Al Hakawati” published today an appeal to Jerusalem institutions and businessmen in the city to save the theatre from closure during the next 48 hours. According….
BRICUP, APUK and AURDIP wrote to Rt. Hon. Phillip Hammond and Monsieur Laurent Fabius concerning the Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh sentenced to death by a Saudi court
To:
Monsieur Laurent Fabius, Ministre des Affaires Étrangères
Rt. Hon. Philip Hammond, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs