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Letter from BRICUP and AURDIP to the Chancellor of UIUC
Phyllis M Wise, Chancellor University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dear Chancellor Wise, The British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP) and the Association des Universitaires pour le Respect du….
Israel using human shields in Gaza
The Israeli government has tried to defend its indiscriminate killing of civilians by claiming resistance fighters hide among the people, when actually there is no safe place in Gaza. We….
Psychologist to bereaved Gazans becomes one of them
A sequel to the article “Dutch nonagenarian returns Righteous Among the Nations medal after six relatives killed in Gaza” by Amira Hass (Haaretz, August 15, 2014).
Hassan Ziadah, who lost five members of his family last month, has been treating traumatized Palestinians since 1991.
Desmond Tutu’s plea to the people of Israel: Liberate yourselves by liberating Palestine
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, in an exclusive article for Haaretz, calls for a global boycott of Israel and urges Israelis and Palestinians to look beyond their leaders for a sustainable solution to the crisis in the Holy Land.
Why Anthropologists Must Boycott: Israeli Attacks on Academic Freedom
This is the second post in a series advocating that the AAA endorse an academic boycott against Israel. For more general information on BDS, see our first post. This past….
Israel-Gaza conflict, a response to the Gaza open letter in the Lancet
An open letter for the people in Gaza, The Lancet, July 23, 2014.
Une lettre ouverte pour le peuple de Gaza (traduction CG pour l’AURDIP)
The President of Physicians for Human Rights Israel, Ruchama Marton, on the root cause of the Gaza conflict.
Dutch nonagenarian returns Righteous Among the Nations medal after six relatives killed in Gaza
Download Mr Henk Zanoli’s letter
Henk Zanoli, who helped save a Jewish child from deportation to concentration camps, said holding on to the medal would be an ‘insult to the family.’
Over 100 Middle East Studies Scholars and Librarians Call for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions
Update: The statement has now been signed by a total of 224 scholars and librarians.