The below is an excerpt from my essay, “The Sin of Cosmocide,” for Renovatio, the literary magazine of Zaytuna, the Muslim liberal arts college in Berkeley, Ca. It underlines how both Jewish and Muslim spiritual teachings forbid the killing of innocents who are guilty of no crime, and equate this deed to killing all humankind […]
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By Michael Fradley, University of Oxford; Andrew Petersen, University of Bradford, and Bill Finlayson, University of Oxford (The Conversation) – Situated at the junction between Africa and Asia, Gaza is a critical archaeological landscape. But the region’s heritage is currently facing an unprecedented risk of loss. Alongside the widespread loss of life, homes and livelihoods […]
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By Sabri Saidam ( Middle East Monitor ) – As soon as the arrest warrant was issued against the head of the Occupation government, the Occupation went mad, between shock and thinking of ways to appeal the decision, reject it or harming the ICC, as a whole. In the meantime, Netanyahu’s political and field missiles […]
Universities should not silence Research and Speech on Palestine
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Protesting Criticism of Approved Gaza Course Proposal by Cornell University President
Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Michael I. Kotlikoff Interim President, Cornell University mik7@cornell.edu Dear Interim President Kotlikoff: We write on behalf of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) and its Committee on Academic Freedom to express our concern about the negative comments that you recently […]
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