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 […]
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Archives for 2024
Republicans Plan to wage Class Warfare on Working People
( Tomdispatch.com) – Recently, you may have noticed that the hot weather is getting ever hotter. Every year the United States swelters under warmer temperatures and longer periods of sustained heat. In fact, each of the last nine months — May 2023 through February 2024 — set a world record for heat. As I’m writing […]
Nicaragua Sues Germany at Int’l Court of Justice to Halt Weapons to a “Genocidal” Israel
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Nicaragua’s opposition online newspaper, La Prensa , reported Monday that proceedings began at the International Court of Justice in Managua’s complaint against Germany for abetting Israeli genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza with its weapons shipments. Nearly half of arms shipments to Israel during the past six months have come […]
Dangerous Deceptions and Outright Lies: Language in the War on Gaza
By Dubravka Žarkov | ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Israel’s political and military leaders have produced so many outright lies regarding Gaza and Hamas that it might seem there is no point in wasting one’s breath on them. Consider the following statements and the contrary evidence for those not yet convinced: The IDF […]
A “Herculean” Task: Can Gaza ever be Rebuilt?
By Dima Nazzal, Georgia Institute of Technology | – Over a decade ago, a United Nations report described the Gaza Strip as virtually unlivable, adding that it would require “Herculean efforts” to change that. Today, after six months of bombardment, mass displacement and siege by Israel, the task of rebuilding Gaza seems practically unimaginable. I’m […]
The Wretched of Palestine: Frantz Fanon Diagnosed the Pathology of Colonialism and Urged Revolutionary Humanism
Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – “The colonized took up arms not only because they were dying of hunger and witnessing the disintegration of their society,” wrote Frantz Fanon in his incendiary book The Wretched of the Earth. “But also because the colonist treated them like animals and considered them brutes. As soon as […]
The Peril of Forgetting Guantánamo
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Last weekend my father, Larry Greenberg, passed away at the age of 93. Several days later, I received an email from the French film director Phillippe Diaz who sent me a link to his soon-to-be-released I am Gitmo, a feature movie about the now-infamous Guantánamo Bay detention facility. As I was […]
80% of All Fossil Fuel and Cement C02 Emissions since 2016 produced by 57 Companies and Countries
By Matthew Carl Ives, University of Oxford; Belinda Wade, The University of Queensland; and Saphira Rekker, The University of Queensland | – Just 57 companies and nation states were responsible for generating 80% of the world’s CO₂ emissions from fossil fuels and cement over the last seven years, according to a new report released by […]
The U.S. used to Stand up to Israeli Expansionism: Time for Biden to Show Eisenhower’s Spine
Istanbul (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – President John. F Kennedy coined the term “special relationship” to describe the American-Israeli relationship. This “special relationship” has only continued to grow stronger, sometimes by fits and starts, since the inception of the Jewish state in 1948. Despite its support for Israel, when it came to the issue […]
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