Palestine not for sale

I just signed this statement: The US Palestinian Community Network calls upon all organizations, associations, and Palestinian and Arab community groups, as well as solidarity organizations, and individuals, to sign on to the below statement rejecting the resumption of direct negotiations, in the midst of ongoing Israeli structural racism and violence inflicted upon Palestinians, to…

Poll: half of Israeli teens don’t want Arab students in their classroom

Hello, apartheid state: Sixty four percent of… Israeli teens aged 15 to 18… say that Arab Israelis do not… enjoy full equal rights in Israel, and from that group, 59 percent… believe that they should not have full equal rights, according to a special survey prepared for the “Education in the Digital Age” conference held in Haifa on Monday.…

Eyal Weizman in Sydney; decolonising architecture

Please join us for the upcoming lecture series by Eyal Weizman titled “Political Plastic”. The lecture series is hosted by the School of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney and the MAA Urban Design. Eyal Weizman is an architect and director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. He studied…

What BDS says; don’t expect Holocaust guilt to get you through

To those who doubt the viability and effect of the growing BDS movement, this piece in Haaretz should be mandatory reading: The entire week was marked by boycotts. It began with a few dozen theater people boycotting the new culture center in Ariel, and continued with a group of authors and artists publishing a statement…

Israel’s next generation of defenders

After Orthodox Jew Peter Beinart recently wrote in the New York Review of Books that growing numbers of young American Jews are turning away from Israel – oncoming fascism doesn’t help – a number of Zionist sociologists have rejected his thesis. Young Jews? They still love Israel, what a wonderful democracy, wholesome and fun.

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