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Zoom, Facebook and YouTube Censor SF State Palestine Class
Three tech giants censored an online class featuring Palestinian, Black, Jewish and South African activists at San Francisco State University today, after pro-Israel advocacy groups complained. The open classroom event….
Global civil society calls for UN General Assembly to investigate Israeli apartheid
452 trade unions, movements, political parties and organizations from tens of countries call on the United Nations General Assembly to investigate Israeli apartheid and impose sanctions
A Palestinian Student Wants a Visa to Europe? Let Him Do Research in Gaza
The Be’er Sheva District Court, sitting as an administrative court, dared to rule that S.O., a Palestinian doctoral student in engineering, must be allowed to leave the Gaza Strip for….
Search for new director of U of T law faculty’s International Human Rights Program leads to resignations, allegations of interference
The faculty advisory board of the International Human Rights Program (IHRP) at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law has resigned following a controversy over the hiring of a new….
TUC calls for Israel sanctions to “end apartheid”
The British Trades Union Congress has condemned Israel’s annexation plan, calling it “another significant step in the creation of a system of apartheid” in the West Bank. Passed on Tuesday,….
Joint letter of 56 scholars to Facebook: Don’t adopt the “IHRA definition of antisemitism”
Facebook, Inc. Attn. Board of Directors 1 Hacker Way Menlo Park, CA 94025 Concerns: campaign targeting Facebook to adopt “IHRA definition of antisemitism” 7 September 2020 Dear Mr. Zuckerberg, dear….
On my administrative detention: Palestinian astrophysicist writes from jail
Professor Imad Barghouthi, the Palestinian astrophysicist arrested in July who was then set to be released on bail, has been placed in administrative detention until November 15th by an order of an Israeli military commander. Administrative detention is a procedure employed by Israeli authorities to jail indefinitely without trial and without charges and used routinely against Palestinian, and it has been condemned by the UN. We share here a letter from Prof. Barghouthi on his current situation:
Netanyahu Used Doctored Video of Abbas to Influence Trump’s Policy, Woodward Reveals
According to excerpts from ‘Rage’ published by U.S. media, at a time when Trump was wondering if Israel was the obstacle to peace with the Palestinians, Netanyahu showed him a fake video to steer him away from pro-Palestinian sentiments
Inheriting the Impossible
This past May, Brown became the first American university to endow a faculty chair in Palestinian studies when it announced historian Beshara Doumani’s appointment as the inaugural Mahmoud Darwish Professor….