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Arvind Dilawar

Do-it-Yourself Divestment: Bringing Anti-Gaza War Activism Home

Yes, schools and other institutions should divest from companies involved in war crimes or fueling the climate crisis. But individuals can also divest. Here’s how. By Scott Plous ( Commondreams ) – On Sunday, May 26—as graduating students at my school, Wesleyan University, tossed their caps into the air—bombs rained down on a tent camp […]

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How Democratizing Universities would Supercharge the pro-Palestine Divestment Movement

Waging Nonviolence

By Akin Olla | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – The pro-Palestinian divestment movement has erupted across the country, after over a decade of bubbling and stirring under the guidance of organizations like Students for Justice in Palestine. Students have built encampments, led walkouts and passed student government resolutions demanding that their universities cease investing […]

Authoritarianism

In Blow to Democracy, British Parliament Votes to Outlaw University and Council Boycotts of Israel amid Gaza Genocide

Mohammed Samaana

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – On January 10, the UK parliament passed the third and final reading of the anti-boycott bill proposed by pro-Israel Conservative hawk Michael Gove, who serves as Secretary of State for Leveling Up, Housing and Communities and Minister for Governmental Relations. The House of Lords still needs to approve […]

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Challenging Israel-inspired Anti-Boycott Legislation in the US

Al-Shabaka

By Tariq Kenney-Shawa | – ( Al-Shabakah) – The Israeli regime’s defenders across the US are ramping up efforts to criminalize the constitutionally protected right to boycott. Beyond violating the rights of Palestine solidarity activists, this threatens to undermine the tenets of a healthy democracy. Al-Shabaka’s US Policy Fellow, Tariq Kenney-Shawa, examines this development and […]

Apartheid

Palestinians Protest, hang Black Flags of Mourning over Biden’s Bethlehem Visit, Accusing him of Sidelining their Political Rights

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that widespread protests broke out on Thursday in the Israeli-Occupied Palestinian West Bank against the planned visit on Friday by US President Joe Biden to Bethlehem, with residents staging demonstrations and raising black flags. They chanted against US one-sidedness in backing Israel’s actions, and […]

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Students Society at McGill University must have the Right to Boycott Israel over Human Rights Violations (MESA)

Committee on Academic Freedom

Committee on Academic Freedom, Middle East Studies Association | – Letter to the provost of McGill University Provost Christopher Manfredi Office of the Provost and Vice Principal (Academic) McGill University 845 Sherbrooke Street West, Suite 504 Montreal, Quebec H3A OG4 via fax: 514-398-4768 Dear Provost Manfredi: We write on behalf of the Middle East Studies […]

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Why Irish Novelist Sally Rooney refused to License her Work in Israel: Apartheid treatment of Palestinians

Ramzy Baroud

( Middle East Monitor) -The pro-Israel crowd on social media was quick to pounce on award-winning Irish novelist, Sally Rooney, as soon as she declared that she had “chosen not to sell … translation rights of her best-selling novel, ‘Beautiful World, Where Are You’ to an Israeli-based publishing house”. Expectedly, the accusations centered on the […]

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In Victory for American Freedom, Judge Mark Cohen Calls “Unconstitutional” Georgia’s Ban on Boycotting Israel for Brutalizing Palestinians

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ross Williams at the Georgia Reporter writes that federal judge Mark Cohen on Monday characterized as unconstitutional a Georgia state law that prohibited contractors for the Georgia state government from boycotting Israel. Cohen is United States District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. This […]