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« The Floor Was Covered With Blood. I Felt Fear Run Like Electricity Through My Body. I Knew Exactly What Was About to Come »
Brutal beatings, diseases, starvation – my Palestinian friends in the West Bank who served time in Israeli prisons since late 2023 returned with appalling reports of what can only be called systematic torture
Two Young Children Were Getting Ready for School. An IDF Drone Killed Them
Hamza and Reda Bsharat, cousins aged 10 and 8, were killed in an airstrike in the West Bank on Wednesday. The family says the army then proceeded to ransack their home. ‘These are children, what explosives are they talking about?’
MIT Shuts Down Internal Grant Database After It Was Used to Research School’s Israel Ties
A new report from MIT Coalition for Palestine details Israeli-funded research into everything from drone swarms to underwater surveillance.
The devastating impact of 15 months of war on Gaza
The Israeli response to Hamas’s attacks on 7 October 2023 has killed tens of thousands, left most schools and hospitals in ruins, and caused long-term damage to agricultural land in the territory
‘Fadi is fighting for his life’: Israel blocks evacuation of cameraman shot in Gaza
Fadi al-Wahidi’s condition is deteriorating, say hospital staff, who do not have medication needed to treat him
Reproductive Health Under Genocide: The Struggle of Palestinian Women in Gaza
Israel’s ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza has triggered and escalated an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, deliberately inflicting life-threatening conditions on more than two million Palestinians, with particularly severe and far-reaching consequences on Palestinian women. Nothing, nowhere, and no one has been spared from Israel’s relentless genocidal military campaign unleashed on Gaza and its people.
Sense of impunity ‘absolute’: The NGO holding Israeli soldiers to account
The Hind Rajab Foundation is using Israeli soldiers’ own social media footage as evidence for war crimes investigations.
In Solidarity With Katherine Franke, Our Former Board Chair
Prof. Franke Will No Longer Teach at Columbia Law School, Stemming from her Defense of Palestinian Students
The Growing Rift between Holocaust Scholars over Israel/Palestine
A chasm has formed between Holocaust scholars concerning Israel/Palestine, deepening immeasurably since 7 October 2023. Unlike previous controversies in the field, the divide is not just historical or methodological; it revolves around academics’ role in the world today, particularly the public stand they choose to take on Palestine/Israel and Zionism. Two main camps have formed. Put reductively, one camp defends Israel, while the other defends Palestinians, although differences between individual scholars within each camp make for more of a spectrum than a clear-cut divide. How, despite a diversity of ideas and foci within each camp, did two academic-political antipodes solidify over several decades, and how have 7 October and the ensuing war widened the rift between them?