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A police state’: US universities impose rules to avoid repeat of Gaza protests
Students, faculty and advocates warn of chilling effect on free speech as schools across US introduce restrictions
Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago calls the war in Gaza « genocidal »
The Democratic National Convention which is taking place this week in Chicago has placed the city’s mayor Brandon Johnson in a national spotlight. Johnson, a former schoolteacher and activist in the Chicago Teacher’s Union, has prepared the city not only for this week’s Convention but also for a week of protests focusing on the war in Gaza and the Biden administration’s continuing diplomatic, financial, and military support for the war.
Hind Rajab’s death has already been forgotten. That’s exactly what Israel wants
The Israeli state has applied its usual strategy after this atrocity: deny, deflect, deceive, and wait for attention to move elsewhere
Investigation Shows Settler Raid on Palestinian Village Took Place in Front of IDF Forces, Who Did Nothing
The soldiers ‘didn’t do anything to stop the pogrom,’ a senior defense official said, ‘they just stood there next to them, saw all of it [take place] and did nothing.’ The body of the Palestinian who was killed was taken for autopsy, but the results are inconclusive as to who shot him
16 August: Ceasefire?
By Mouin Rabbani : I’ve been making the argument that the ongoing negotiations for a Gaza ceasefire are a diversionary US-Israeli charade and shouldn’t be taken particularly seriously. Initially, their primary purpose was to serve as a fig leaf for Israel to continue with its genocidal campaign in the Gaza Strip. In other words, their purpose is process, and their objective has therefore been to avoid reaching a ceasefire agreement rather than concluding one.
We Served on Israel’s Sde Teiman Base. Here’s What We Did to Gazans Detained There
Hands and feet in shackles. Eyes blindfolded. No moving. No talking. And, sometimes, violent beatings. Days upon days, weeks upon weeks pass like this at the Sde Teiman facility for Hamas terrorists and Palestinian civilians from Gaza. These interviewees know. They served there
AAUP Condemns Wave of Administrative Policies Intended to Crack Down on Peaceful Campus Protest
The recent proliferation of these new restrictive policies seems to be an attempt to appease politicians who are calling for university administrators to use a heavy hand against faculty and student protestors. We must reiterate, as we said in our November 2023 statement Polarizing Times Demand Robust Academic Freedom, “By acceding to external political pressures and demands for political censorship instead of encouraging the utmost freedom of discussion, college and university administrations abandon their own responsibility for protecting the academic community’s central mission of education, research, and service to the broader society and to the public good.”
Senior diplomat resigns over UK’s complicity in ‘war crimes’ in Gaza
A senior British diplomat has resigned from the Foreign Office over the UK’s continued arms sales to Israel, which he said have “no justification”. Mark Smith, the head of Africa Programmes and Expertise Department and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, submitted a resignation letter entitled “FCDO complicity in War Crimes” reports revealed yesterday.
Pianist’s Melbourne recital cancelled after comments on Gaza journalists
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra apologises after Gilham’s recital and says his remarks were made without their approval