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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’….
Palestine: The End of the Bedouins?
One way to tell the story of the Middle East as a whole is to describe the endemic struggle between peripatetic nomads and settled peasant farmers—a struggle attested already in….
Strangled Education: Reporting on higher education in Palestine and Israel
This January, after several years of often-heated discussion and review, the Modern Language Association’s representative body, the Delegate Assembly, will consider a resolution to endorse the Palestinian call for a….
Israel conference banned in UK moves to Ireland
An academic conference about Israel banned in the UK two years in a row, will go ahead at a new venue in Ireland, organizers announced this week. “International Law and….
Israeli education chief orders ‘ethics rules’ for professors aimed at curtailing ‘political preaching’
Bennett asks former IDF ethics chief to take on ‘ongoing situation of overlap between academic and political activity.’
Groundbreaking statement by 200 European Legal Scholars Upholds the Right to BDS for Palestinian Rights
Palestinians welcome statement as “a major blow to Israel’s repressive legal war” on the BDS movement:
- Renowned legal scholars and lawyers from 15 European countries consider BDS as “a lawful exercise of freedom of expression”
- Palestinian BDS human rights defenders welcome the statement as a “defining moment” in asserting their right to boycott Israel to realize Palestinian rights
BDS impact round up for 2016
Israel’s war of repression has failed to stop the continued growth of the BDS movement for Palestinian rights
Ministry summons Jerusalem school principal for hosting anti-occupation group Breaking the Silence
The summons was prompted by a complaint over alleged incitement at the program, but no incitement has been found and there is no formal ministry policy banning such programming, sources say.
Australian lawmakers urge end to Israeli abuses of Palestinian children
One in five members of Australia’s parliament is calling on Israel to end its systematic abuses of Palestinian children. “Israel is the only country in the world that automatically prosecutes….