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Palestinians on US Embassy Opening in Jerusalem & 70 Years of the Ongoing Nakba
The Trump administration’s decision to open the US embassy in Jerusalem as Palestinians commemorate 70 painful years of displacement signals that it’s giving Israel freer reign than ever to try to push Palestinians out of their homeland. But a growing alliance of progressive communities around the world gives Palestinians hope that together they can, and will, end the ongoing assaults on Palestinian life, and create a better world for all.
Columbia Community Objects to Israeli Global Center
This petition protests the refusal of the state of Israel to permit entry to Professor Katherine Franke of Columbia University. Franke arrived to meet with Israeli and Palestinian colleagues. She was interrogated for 14 hours before being sent back to NY and told she was barred from entry. We adamantly oppose the creation of a Columbia Global Center in Israel, particularly, though not only, because many members of the Columbia community would be denied entry to Israel because of their speech, or their academic and political work. This denial is in violation of Columbia’s core values, and Columbia must similarly deny to support, through association, such actions.
Israel using culture to mask brutality, say film-makers, journalists and artists
Cinema, media and cultural institutions should refuse to provide platforms for national celebrations sponsored by Israel, say signatories including Helena Kennedy, Maxine Peake and Juliet Stevenson
Winner of Prestigious Israeli Award to Donate Prize Money to Human Rights Organizations
Feminist and scientist Evelyn Fox Keller, a former professor at MIT, will give her Dan David Prize money to anti-occupation organization B’Tselem, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and Physicians for Human Rights
Detained and Then Deported: U.S. Human Rights Lawyers Barred from Entry into Israel
Two U.S. human rights lawyers were detained Sunday for 14 hours at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport before being deported back to the United States. Columbia University’s Katherine Franke….
Israeli police teach schoolchildren how to shoot Palestinians
Israeli police planned to teach children how to shoot at Palestinians as part of a training exercise in a school. The incident in the Menashe Regional Council, near Haifa in….
A Firsthand Account of Israel’s Siege on a Palestinian University
Each Friday, starting on March 30, 2018, the Israeli Army has opened fire on and used drones to teargas Palestinians in proximity to the Gaza border. During this fifth week….
Amnesty International : Israel: Arms embargo needed as military unlawfully kills and maims Gaza protesters
Israel is carrying out a murderous assault against protesting Palestinians, with its armed forces killing and maiming demonstrators who pose no imminent threat to them, Amnesty International revealed today, based….
Ken Loach: ULB maintains decision despite P.M.’s disapproval
The Rector of ULB, Yvon Englert, maintained on Thursday morning that the award of an honorary doctorate to the film producer Ken Loach, scheduled for during the day should still go ahead.