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‘Mahmoud Is Not Safe’
Mahmoud Khalil’s detention is the result not just of the Trump administration’s agenda but of more than a year of moral panic around pro-Palestine protest.
Between Human Rights and Civil Society: The Case of Israel’s Apartheid Enablers
For decades, human rights organizations have exposed egregious abuses carried out by states across the globe. Yet, simultaneously, other national and transnational civil society actors have waged war on these human rights organizations to shield rights-abusive states from accountability. These assaults have increasingly resulted in the normative claims of human rights organizations being sidelined while rights-abusive laws and policies gain further ground. This article uses Israel as its primary case study to interrogate these civil society wars and their effects on human rights. Examining the work of Israeli and pro-Israeli civil society actors in bolstering apartheid and shielding the state from criticism, I highlight three strategies—native dispossession, lawfare, and advocacy—that civil society actors use to enable apartheid. I go on to show how these actors adopt liberal tactics to protect, reproduce, and facilitate apartheid and to attack human rights defenders. By way of conclusion, I argue that the dominant paradigm informing human rights NGOs needs to be modified and their remit needs to be extended to include civil society actors that contribute to the perpetuation of social wrongs.
‘Our enemies commit genocide, not our friends’: Leading genocide scholar and lawyer William Schabas on the double standards of calling out Israel’s horrific crimes in Gaza
The New Arab Meets: Lawyer William Schabas to examine why Israel’s genocide in Gaza, including its self-defence rhetoric, are unlikely to succeed in court
Academic Freedom | Letter to the University of Lausanne about Prof. Joseph Daher
We write on behalf of the Academic Freedom Committee of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES), of the Société des études du Moyen-Orient et du monde musulman (SEMOMM) and of the Società per gli Studi sul Medio Oriente (SeSaMO) to express our grave concern about the treatment of Prof. Joseph Daher.
At Harvard Talk, Former Israeli PM Joked He Would Give Exploding Pagers to Protesters
Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett joked to hundreds of people about sending explosive devices to dissenting event attendees at a talk at the Harvard Business School on Thursday, according to six people present at the discussion.
« Antisemitism » and Antisemitism
The abuse of the word and the spread of the phenomenon
Pakistani architect Dr Yasmeen Lari refuses Israel’s Wolf Prize over Gaza genocide
Lari expressed gratitude for the Wolf Prize but refused to accept it due to the ongoing situation in Gaza
University of Amsterdam: no renewal of exchange with Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The University of Amsterdam (UvA) will stop student exchange with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for now due to the risk of human rights violations by the Israeli university. The UvA came to this decision after a recommendation from a special, independent committee.
Pro-Israel group says it has ‘deportation list’ and has sent ‘thousands’ of names to Trump officials
Betar US is among far-right groups supporting Trump effort to deport students involved in pro-Palestinian protests