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Israel kills 26 Palestinian students, arrests 198 in 2016
Official Palestinian statistics indicated that Israeli occupation forces committed violations and attacks on 89,799 students and 5,528 teachers and employees during 2016. The Palestinian Ministry of Education said in a….
Israel and Palestine: Settler colonialism and academic freedom
In the last ten years, an old scholarly paradigm that was used for the historical analysis of European settler movements in various parts of the worlds, and in different periods,….
Free speech on Israel under attack in universities
Immediate Threat to Academic Freedom and Freedom of Speech (BRICUP) * you are being asked to add your name to this letter of concern * You may have heard of….
PEN America drops Israel sponsorship
PEN America is no longer accepting funding from the Israeli government, after five years of accepting such sponsorship for the literary group’s annual World Voices festival in New York, the….
Israeli Apartheid Week begins! Over 200 Cities!
This year’s Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is about to launch in London on Tuesday, and will be held in over 200 cities around the globe over the next two months…..
Israel denies visas to staff from ‘hostile’ Human Rights Watch
Decision to ban new HRW director from working in Israel is an ‘ominous turn’ and puts country in same league as North Korea says NGO
Ken Loach backs controversial Israel conference
A conference on Israeli “exceptionalism” will go ahead in Ireland this spring, organizers insisted on Wednesday. Supporters of the event – organized by University College Cork academics – include Ken….
Scholars ask to have their names added to ‘Professor Watchlist’
The newly inaugurated U.S. administration has created an atmosphere of violence, racism, Islamophobia, and anti-Semitism. A less discussed aspect of these attacks is on academic freedom. The 2016 election has….
Call to support the health of infants in Gaza, Palestine
After the 2014 war in Gaza, the number of newborns with serious health conditions has increased dramatically. In mid-2016, 14% of infants had a 40% chance of dying within a….