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European call to defend the right to education in Palestine : AURDIP and BRICUP’s second letter to the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and to the European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation
Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Carlos Moedas, Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science Dear Madam, Sir, On October 22, we wrote to….
400 New Yorkers celebrate launch of campaign calling on local artists to boycott Israel
New York, NY, November 16, 2015 – On Saturday, November 14th, nearly 400 New Yorkers packed the Verso Books Loft in DUMBO, Brooklyn, to capacity for “Palestine Calling: A Launch….
Statement of Academics on the Settlement of Professor Steven Salaita’s Lawsuit Against the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Click here to view the updated list of signers, and to add your name to this statement (for faculty members).
Settlement Reached in Case of Professor Fired for “Uncivil” Tweets
November 12, 2015, Chicago – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel Loevy & Loevy announced the settlement of Professor Steven Salaita’s case against the University of Illinois….
Edward Said’s Humanism versus the U.S. State Department’s Anti-Semitism
[Richard Falk’s Prefatory Note: This post consists of my written text for a public presentation on the theme of “Edward Said’s Humanism and the Rejection of the State Department’s Definition of Anti-Semitism” at a conference at Fresno State University, Nov. 6, 2015 bearing the title “Universities at the Crossroads: The Assault on Academic Freedom,” which was the last event of the “Edward Said Lecture Series” organized by Professor Vida Samiian of the Department of Linguistics at FSU. My talk as given departed considerably from this text.]
Israeli forces injure dozens of university students in Tulkarem
TULKAREM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces shot and injured at least five students with live bullets on Monday at the northern occupied West Bank’s Palestine Technical University in the Tulkarem district,….
Dialogue vs. BDS? Responding to arguments against an academic boycott of Israel
On Tuesday, October 27, a full-page advertisement appeared in The Guardian, announcing the support of more than 300 UK-based scholars for an academic boycott of Israel. A week on, the….
Academics and Israel
Sir, – As scholars associated with Irish institutions of higher education, north and south, we are deeply disturbed by Israel’s ongoing illegal occupation of Palestinian land, the intolerable human rights….
CGT-INRA : Immediate cessation of repression against workers and Palestinian youth ! Reinstatement of the dismissed workers !
The CGT‐INRA supports the call of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) and that of the Arab Workers Union in Israel for the reinstatement of the dismissed workers and to stop the terror of the Israeli Government against the Palestinian people.
The CGT‐INRA joins the BDS 2005 call of Palestinian civil society for a boycott of all Israeli economic, cultural and academic institutions.