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Graduate Students MLA members on the MLA Academic Boycott Resolution
We are gearing up for the MLA 2017 Convention in Philadelphia and the debate on the resolution to endorse the Palestinian call for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. Graduate student MLA members who support the boycott of Israeli academic institutions wrote the following message.
Precarious Childhood: Arrests of Jerusalemite Children
This film addresses the process of arrest, interrogation, and the policy of house arrest and their effects on children. The film provides accounts of children who were arrested in order….
The Hague: The reason the Palestinians are jubilant and Israel is spooked
The fresh support from the Security Council could cause the prosecution in International Criminal Court to dare to move ahead from a preliminary examination to an investigation on the settlements.
UN report: Palestinian development impossible without ending Israeli occupation
As Israel and its advocates promote a depoliticised framework of economic improvements for Palestinians under military occupation, a new United Nations (UN) document is required reading. Late last month, the….
Israel threatens to toss Antony Loewenstein after he asked Lapid question about apartheid
The Jerusalem Post reports that the Israeli government is thinking of ending Antony Loewenstein’s press credentials, forcing him to leave Jerusalem, because he asked a tough question of a government….
Richard Falk: ‘History is on the side of the Palestinians’
The former UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine talks about his career, his commitment to the Palestinian cause and his hopes for the future
Israeli Occupation Continues to Strangle Palestine’s Education
In continuation of its barbaric aggression on our people and national institutions, the Israeli occupation forces stormed Birzeit University’s campus in the early morning hours of Wednesday 14 December 2016…..
German Bank for Social Economy Closes Account of Jewish Peace Group
Our organization, the “Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East” (JS) was founded thirteen years ago as the German Section of the “European Jews for a Just….
European Trade Union Initiative for Justice in Palestine
Recently over 100 trade union delegates, representing twenty nine unions and three million members from all over Europe, gathered in a historic first meeting in Brussels to challenge European governments’….