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Under pressure, Israeli government suspends controversial plan to set up database of Jewish students in U.S.
A Jewish student organization says that it didn’t believe the project was ‘in the best interest of engaging American Jewish college students’
Trump puts Israel first with UNESCO withdrawal
Donald Trump’s “America First” foreign policy was on full display Thursday when the State Department announced that the United States is withdrawing from UNESCO over the United Nations cultural body’s….
Purdue’s president takes aim at the left
Mitch Daniels has decided that the real enemy on the Purdue campus isn’t the far right threatening harassment and violence, but left-wing activism, writes Elizabeth Schulte.
Chomsky clarifies position on the cultural boycott of Israel
In recent years, people promoting the mantras of ‘constructive engagement’ and ‘bridge-building’ with Israel have cited Professor Noam Chomsky in their defence. He is alleged to oppose the campaign of….
ACLU files lawsuit against state of Kansas over bill against Israel boycotts
‘The state should not be telling people what causes they can or can’t support,’ said a teacher rendered unemployable by the bill on whose behalf the lawsuit has been filed
The Occupied Territories Are the Biggest Prison on Earth
Fifty years after the Six-Day War, the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip shows no end in sight. Acclaimed historian Ilan Pappé provides a comprehensive and damning account of the occupation in his new book, The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories, based on groundbreaking archival research and eyewitness accounts.
In this Truthout interview, Ilan Pappé, author of The Biggest Prison on Earth, argues that Israel’s model for the occupied territories is not an eventual two-state solution. Rather, Israel has built a model of a permanent open-air prison for Gaza and the West Bank.
Cornell University : Professor Has No Regrets After Controversial Chant
“I never assume that most people share my politics,” Prof. Russell Rickford, history, told The Sun. Activist and scholar of black American history, Rickford joined Black Lives Matter in Ithaca….
Israeli anti-Zionist expelled from Labour amid anti-Semitism smear
A renowned Israeli anti-Zionist was expelled from Labour on Tuesday, as the party bureaucracy falsely accused him of anti-Semitism. Retired philosophy professor Moshé Machover told The Electronic Intifada that the….
Award-Winning Filmmaker Ken Loach Donates Film Screening Proceeds to BDS Movement
Award-winning British filmmaker Ken Loach has donated all proceeds from screenings of his latest film in Israeli venues to the BDS movement as a gesture of support for the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and equality.