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Fired by a German University for Solidarity with Palestine
The University of Cologne canceled a guest professorship with the philosophy professor from The New School. In this interview, she speaks about Germany dividing between “Good Jews” and “Bad Jews,” her...
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Leaked Cables Show White House Opposes Palestinian Statehood
Ahead of the United Nations Security Council action to consider the Palestinian Authority’s application to become a full member of the international body, the United States is lobbying nations to...
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Gaza and Germany’s Path to Authoritarianism
The German government’s stance on the war in Gaza and its increasingly repressive treatment of critics are causing growing national and international concern. The administration made up of Social...
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What Are Academic Boycotts For?
In 2004, academics and intellectuals launched the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and called on international scholars to initiate a boycott of Israeli...
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Over 100 Arrested at Columbia After Univ. President Orders NYPD to Clear...
Columbia University President Nemat “Minouche” Shafik on Thursday called on New York police to forcibly clear a student occupation on the lawn of the school, which had been dubbed the Gaza Solidarity...
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Telling the ‘Untold’ Stories of Palestinian Lives, Dreams, and Hopes—in Gaza...
After a decade of struggling with infertility and undergoing IVF procedures, 27-year-old Alaa gave birth to her first son, Kareem—an “energetic and brilliant child” with a “sweet” soul who “filled the...
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Gaza Solidarity Encampment Regroups Following Arrest of 108 Students at Columbia
On Thursday, April 18, a swarm of NYPD officers in riot gear arrested 108 students at Columbia University in an attempt to dismantle an encampment of student protesters demanding Columbia’s full...
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US Vetos Palestine’s Bid for UN membership
On 18 May the Security Council was seized of a resolution that would have granted UN membership to Palestine.Twelve members of the SC voted in favor of the resolution, while two countries – the UK and...
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When Namibia Stands Up to Germany: Why the Global South is Rising for Palestine
The distance between Gaza and Namibia is measured in the thousands of kilometers. But the historical distance is much closer. This is precisely why Namibia was one of the first countries to take a...
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There Can Be No Critique
An earlier version of this essay was published in the Boston Review on Dec 13, 2023 with this version appearing on the Verso blog on April 16, 2024. Jodi Dean’s badly misinformed polemic against what...
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Under UN Charter, Iran’s Attack Was a Legal Response to Israel’s Illegal Attack
On April 1, Israel mounted an unprovoked military attack on a building that was part of the Iranian Embassy complex in Damascus, Syria, killing seven of Iran’s senior military advisers and five...
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Recognize Palestine — and Impose Sanctions on Israel
Recognition of Palestinian statehood has long been one of the fault lines of global politics. In fact, the main Western powers are often outliers in this regard. Today an overwhelming majority of...
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Samson and Cassandra
My Mother once told me the story of an emaciated woman in the Warsaw Ghetto who would wail from her window sill that all the Jews in the ghetto would be killed. She came to be called Cassandra, after...
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The Media is Advancing a False Narrative of ‘Rising Antisemitism’ on Campus...
What is the mainstream U.S. media’s greatest single distortion about the protests at Columbia University and elsewhere? Here’s the winner so far: the media is ignoring the fact that Jewish students are...
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House Passes $95 Billion Foreign War Bills
US lawmakers passed a raft of legislation containing some $95 billion in military aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, also approving a bill that will allow Washington to hand Kiev assets seized from...
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The Irony: Israel’s Supporters use ‘woke’ Playbook to Censor Palestinian Voices
In recent years, a new line of attack has emerged from many pro-Israel groups, conservative commentators, politicians and activists – the idea that “wokeness” and oversensitivity to giving offence are...
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US House awards Israel $26 Billion so it can go on Killing or Wounding a...
The US House of Representatives voted $26 billion for Israel on Saturday to reward it for its ongoing war crimes against Palestinians. Some 58 members voted against the measure, including 37 Democrats....
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Palestinians as “The Others”
Throughout history, military empires have reduced their victims, their subjugated, and their abducted to a state of “The Others.” The political and mass media institutions usually follow suit by...
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Historic Gaza Protests at Columbia U. Enter Day 6; Campus Protests Spread...
Columbia University canceled in-person classes Monday as campus protests over the war in Gaza enter a sixth day. The protests have swelled after the school administration called in the police to clear...
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Pro-Palestinian Campus Encampments Spread Nationwide Amid Mass Arrests at...
Palestinian solidarity protests and encampments are appearing on college campuses from Massachusetts to California to protest Israel’s attacks on Gaza and to call for divestment from Israeli apartheid....
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