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Israel and Academic Freedom: a Closed Book
You have a 17-year-old daughter… let’s call her Rachel, or perhaps Nadia… raised in a home where dialogue, debate and disagreement have been served as so much a mainstay of….
Over 1,000 faculty members sign statement condemning ‘Canary Mission’ blacklist
Over the past few years, as support for Palestinian rights has grown across the United States, student members of SJP chapters nationally have been facing intense online harassment for speaking….
We are the (Norwegian) artists responsible for the satirical and political art piece « Nationaltheatret beklager »
PRESS RELEASE BY NORWEGIAN ARTISTS
Colloque de CVPR PO au Sénat: « Cent ans après les accords Sykes-Picot » « L’Orient arabe trahi »
Le CVPR PO (Comité de Vigilance pour une Paix Réelle au Proche Orient), en partenariat avec le site ORIENT XXI, organise un colloque, à l’occasion du centième anniversaire du « soulèvement….
VICTORY : UC Berkeley Reinstates Course on Palestine
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 19, 2016
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Dylan Fahoome, Palestine Legal
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Is Zionist a rude word?
Words trail meanings beyond their formal definitions. Raymond Williams in his Key Words leads us through the dizzying journeys that words we thought we knew well have taken over their….
Before firing at a Palestinian, the Israeli sniper asked: Where do you want to be shot?
Four rounds of sniper fire hit Mohammed Amassi, a young Palestinian baker standing on the roof of his home in the Al-Fawwar refugee camp. As he tries now to recover from his wounds, he still remembers the mocking words of the soldier who shot him.
Israel linked to suspension of Palestine course at UC Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley – an institution synonymous with free speech protests in the 1960s – has shut down a student-led course on Palestine. The censorship is one of….
Ghassan Hage’s letter responding to an invitation to give the keynote at the Anthropological Association of Israel conference and the president’s reply
I had initially asked the president of the Israeli Anthropological Association who invited me, Nir Avieli, if he wanted his invitation published. As I didn’t get an initial response i assumed he didn’t. But he has sent me his considered response to my reply. So here they are both for the records. As you can see both my response and Nir’s are polite and even cordial despite the differences, and if people want to comment, I’d rather if people keep the same tone of exchange.–Ghassan Hage