By Anna Dang and 65 other MLK Spirit Award Recipients | – ( Michigan Daily ) – We, the undersigned, are alumni recipients of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Spirit Award at the University of Michigan. In January of this year, the University awarded recent alum Salma Hamamy the MLK Spirit Award in recognition of […]
Biden lost the Vote of this Pastor over Gaza. Harris must earn it Back
( New Jersey Star-Ledger ) – I cannot see President Biden without seeing 40,000 dead Gazans. He rightly stepped aside after his disastrous debate with Donald Trump, but he continues to lose a far more disastrous debate with Israel’s Prime Minister, weakening the basic principles of US foreign policy. Alongside his humiliating failure to achieve […]
Rupture and Repair: A report by the Stanford Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian Communities Committee
May 2024 Rupture and Repair is published in pdf format here. Below I excerpt a couple of pages in html with the permission of the authors. This report details a substantial rupture of trust between students, staff, and faculty in the Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian (MAP) communities and Stanford in academic year 2023-24. These communities […]
Report of the Independent International Commission of violations of international human rights law (IHRL), international humanitarian law (IHL) and possible international crimes committed by all parties between 7 October and 31 December 2023
Advance unedited version Distr.: General 27 May 2024 Original: English Human Rights Council Fifty sixth session 18 June–12 July 2024 Agenda item 2 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Report of the Independent International […]
Cambridge-Trained Physician Back from Gaza: “There’s a very dark side to the Israeli State”
Moosa Qureshi, The Watermelon Reports. (Moosa Qureshi is a British National Health Service Haematology Consultant, Award-winning Legal Campaigner, PhD Cancer Science, LLB Hons, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.) The Watermelon Reports Video: “War Crimes Or Not? British Surgeon’s Testimony from Gaza” Computer generated transcript from YouTube, edited by ChatGPT 4. I tried to check it a […]
USC: 17 History Department Faculty Demand Resignation of President, Others, for use of Violence against Campus Community
We, the undersigned members of the Department of History [at the University of Southern California], unequivocally condemn the university administration for its decision to invite riot police to campus and employ violence against our students and colleagues. On April 24, a diverse coalition of students assembled at Alumni Park to protest several things. Chief among […]
Over 1,500 North American Academics Condemn Scholasticide in Gaza
NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 8 APRIL 2024 Contact: academicsvsscholasticide@gmail.com Faisal Bhabha, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University Heidi Matthews, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University Stephen Rosenbaum, UC Berkeley School of Law Over 1,500 North American Academics Condemn Scholasticide in Gaza Over 1,500 academics based at more than 270 higher education […]
Hebrew U. lifts Suspension of Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian after Palestinian-Israeli Scholars called for her Reinstatement
NB: Hebrew University made this announcement on Wednesday, reinstating Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian: In a meeting held today between the Rector of the Hebrew University, Prof. Tamir Sheafer, and Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Prof. Shalhoub-Kevorkian clarified that as a critical feminist researcher, she believes all victims and does not doubt their words, and that she did not deny […]
We are all Palestinian: Music Video by Mistahi
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Mistahi: “We are all Palestinian” Mistahi was born and raised in Saskatoon, Canada as part of a poor neighbourhood. He was exposed to common problems that are familiar to most in the working class. Everyday he walked by a homeless shelter to attend elementary school. By the time he made […]