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16 August: Ceasefire?
By Mouin Rabbani : I’ve been making the argument that the ongoing negotiations for a Gaza ceasefire are a diversionary US-Israeli charade and shouldn’t be taken particularly seriously. Initially, their primary purpose was to serve as a fig leaf for Israel to continue with its genocidal campaign in the Gaza Strip. In other words, their purpose is process, and their objective has therefore been to avoid reaching a ceasefire agreement rather than concluding one.
We Served on Israel’s Sde Teiman Base. Here’s What We Did to Gazans Detained There
Hands and feet in shackles. Eyes blindfolded. No moving. No talking. And, sometimes, violent beatings. Days upon days, weeks upon weeks pass like this at the Sde Teiman facility for Hamas terrorists and Palestinian civilians from Gaza. These interviewees know. They served there
AAUP Condemns Wave of Administrative Policies Intended to Crack Down on Peaceful Campus Protest
The recent proliferation of these new restrictive policies seems to be an attempt to appease politicians who are calling for university administrators to use a heavy hand against faculty and student protestors. We must reiterate, as we said in our November 2023 statement Polarizing Times Demand Robust Academic Freedom, “By acceding to external political pressures and demands for political censorship instead of encouraging the utmost freedom of discussion, college and university administrations abandon their own responsibility for protecting the academic community’s central mission of education, research, and service to the broader society and to the public good.”
Senior diplomat resigns over UK’s complicity in ‘war crimes’ in Gaza
A senior British diplomat has resigned from the Foreign Office over the UK’s continued arms sales to Israel, which he said have “no justification”. Mark Smith, the head of Africa Programmes and Expertise Department and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, submitted a resignation letter entitled “FCDO complicity in War Crimes” reports revealed yesterday.
Pianist’s Melbourne recital cancelled after comments on Gaza journalists
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra apologises after Gilham’s recital and says his remarks were made without their approval
UK prosecutors drop case against academic over posts related to 7 October attack
Counterterrorism officers raided Amira Abdelhamid’s home after the University of Portsmouth referred her to Prevent
Four-day-old twins killed in Gaza by Israeli airstrike as father registered births
Mohamed Abuel-Qomasan’s wife and mother-in-law also killed in strike that hit home where they were sheltering
Haaretz Investigation: Israeli Army Uses Palestinian Civilians to Inspect Potentially Booby-trapped Tunnels in Gaza
‘Our lives are more important than their lives’: Gazans not suspected of terrorism are detained and sent as human shields to search tunnels and houses before IDF soldiers enter, in the full knowledge of senior Israeli officers, several sources say; IDF claims this practice is forbidden
Statement on Academic Boycotts
The following statement was approved by the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure in July 2024 and adopted by the Association’s Council in August 2024. It supersedes Committee A’s 2006 report On Academic Boycotts.