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More Than Half of the Invited Speakers Withdraw From Scientific Workshop at Israeli Settlement University
Six of the eleven invited speakers have confirmed their withdrawal from a physics workshop at Ariel University, which is built on occupied Palestinian land in an illegal Israeli settlement. Palestinian academics urge remaining speakers to withdraw from the workshop.
BDS: how a controversial non-violent movement has transformed the Israeli-Palestinian debate
Israel sees the international boycott campaign as an existential threat to the Jewish state. Palestinians regard it as their last resort.
Campaign forces Israel’s Zim to halt shipments to Tunisia
Palestinians hail “first victory of its kind in the Arab world.”
EASA2018: Motion against apartheid academia in the West Bank
The European Association of Social Anthropologists recently voted a motion opposing « the establishment and regularization of academic institutions intended exclusively to serve the population of an occupying power in occupied….
Uri Avnery, Veteran Peace Activist and First Israeli to Meet Arafat, Dies at 94
The Gush Shalom founder was one of the first Israelis to actively seek a Palestinian state as a peaceful solution to the conflict: ‘The difference between a freedom fighter and a terrorist depends on your perspective’
We condemn the destruction of Gaza cultural centre in Israeli airstrike
Fourteen leading playwrights and theatre directors, including Mike Bartlett, Caryl Churchill, Vicky Featherstone and Rufus Norris, describe the great rage and deep pain of their Palestinian friends and colleagues
Palestinians Can’t Keep Living Like This
Israeli Jews won’t change that reality by ignoring it.
Censorship in Donaueschingen
For decades, the Donaueschingen Festival (Donaueschinger Musiktage) has stood not only for new sounds, but also for new ideas and discourses, including controversial ones. Whether dealing with world politics or….
Oppression Education: Israeli Academic Institutions Throw Their Lot With the Israeli Security Elite
Three recent events in Israel’s largest universities demonstrate academic and security institutions are actually increasing their cooperation.
This article was originally published in the July newsletter of the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP)