Latest Posts
The People’s University of Providence
“There are no universities left in Gaza,” read one sign from Brown’s encampment for Palestine, which officially came to a close yesterday. The sign faced University Hall, an administrative building, and telegraphed one of the many themes of the encampment: that divestment, among many other, perhaps more pressing, issues, is also an educational issue. Because Brown has repeatedly shooed away calls for divestment under the powerful banner of being A University—a title that supposedly carries nonpolitical implications—the eighty-some students who have chosen to pitch tents in full violation of student-conduct policies are making a point with their teach-ins. If Brown wants to make this about education, the students will make this about education.
Violent clashes erupt at UCLA between pro-Israel and pro-Palestine supporters
Chaos erupted late into the night at UCLA’s campus as pro and anti-Israel protesters clashed in scenes that escalated into ‘all-out brawls’, including an incident where a firework was thrown into a crowd of people. The violence began when a group of pro-Israel activists arrived on campus to dismantle the anti-Israel and pro-Palestine camp.
Al Jazeera’s Rob Reynolds joins us live now from Los Angeles to discuss the latest updates.
Letter to Columbia President Minouche Shafik
You are keeping no one safe, except for your donors, trustees, and the university’s endowment.
By Robin D. G. Kelley, Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at UCLA
I’m a UCLA professor. Why didn’t the administration stop last night’s egregious violence?
The university should have anticipated Tuesday night’s chaos — but security personnel were nowhere to be found
Carlo Rovelli: ‘We can be open without collaborating in every massacre’
An interview with the physicist as students and professors call for an end to dual-use research with Israel. ‘Accusations of anti-Semitism are a cudgel wielded by the Israeli government at every turn against anyone who criticizes it.’
Statement in solidarity with student protests for Gaza
We, the undersigned organizations, stand in solidarity with the students nationwide and globally who are bravely protesting in encampments and otherwise to condemn Israel’s ongoing bombardment of Gaza–actions which human rights organizations, a federal U.S. court, and the International Court of Justice have said “plausibly” constitute genocide.
Report of the Independent Task Force on National Security Memorandum-20 Regarding Israel
In early February, we formed the Independent Task Force on the Application of National Security Memorandum-20 to Israel, whose report we provided to the Biden Administration on April 18. The National Security Memorandum 20 (NSM-20), adopted by President Joe Biden, directs the Department of State to seek assurances from partners involved in conflict and receiving U.S. military grant assistance that they would abide by U.S. and international law and also requires the Departments of State and Defense to report to Congress within 90 days on the extent to which such partners are abiding by their assurances.
Yes, it is genocide
In most cases of genocide, from Bosnia to Namibia, from Rwanda to Armenia, the perpetrators of the murder said they were acting in self-defence. The fact that what is happening in Gaza does not resemble the Holocaust, writes Holocaust scholar Amos Goldberg, does not mean that it is not genocide
Scenes of total devastation driving through Gaza City
Scenes of total devastation driving through Gaza City today, +70% of homes across Gaza Strip have been damaged or destroyed.