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Holocaust Memory and “Fighting Antisemitism” in Times of Genocide
Wednesday, September 10, 2025 — 7 pm Palestine time (Zoom). Prof. Amos Goldberg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) will speak on Holocaust Memory and “Fighting Antisemitism” in Times of Genocide. He will discuss how Holocaust memory is mobilized by Israel, the US, and Germany while these same states are deeply involved in the genocide in Gaza. [Register here].
Renowned Harp Contests in Israel Canceled After Low Registration and Artist Withdrawals Over Gaza
The International Harp Contest in Israel, originally scheduled for December in Jerusalem, has been canceled after only two participants registered. Italian harpist Claudia Lucia Lamanna, who was set to judge a local harp competition later this month, also withdrew on Friday, citing international pressure.
Malnourished Palestinian woman dies in Italy after Gaza evacuation
Marah Abu Zuhri, 20, arrived in Pisa on an Italian humanitarian flight along with other critical patients
‘Legitimization Cell’: Israeli unit tasked with linking Gaza journalists to Hamas
Treating the media as a battlefield, a secretive army intelligence squad scoured Gaza for material to bolster Israeli hasbara — including questionable claims that would justify the killing of Palestinian reporters.
Meanwhile in the West Bank, Every Israeli Soldier ‘Does Whatever He Wants’
In July alone, the Israeli army conducted over 1,300 raids on Palestinian neighborhoods. Residents endure constant harassments, knowing every soldier acts with impunity, and no one will intervene. ‘We see that every soldier behaves like a commander, doing whatever he wants, with no fear of higher rank’
Hunger That Defeats Language
I fear hunger more than death, for it takes you in slow, devouring waves until you become a disintegrating shadow, unable even to scream.
Will anyone read this?
Will anyone believe that a writer could no longer write because he had nothing to eat?
Will anyone care that, in a corner of the world, people are starving so completely that their souls are silenced?
Perhaps not.
But I wrote this – despite everything.
To say that writing is possible.
Only if the body is allowed to survive.
By Husam Maarouf
Palestinian child seeking aid tortured in Israeli military detention camp
Omar Nizar Mahmoud Asfour, 16. Photo courtesy of the Asfour family.
We return our IMO medals in an ethical protest
The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) suspended Russia in 2022 but readmitted it in 2025 instead of suspending Israel in addition. In this article, I explain how this moral decline of the IMO proceeded from 2022 to 2025, and I emphasize its severe negative consequences for the mathematical olympiad community. By Melih Ucer.
Gaza’s sick children wait in torturous limbo for medical evacuations
For some the only hope is treatment abroad, but not all survive the long, desperate wait for Israel’s approval