"[A] transnational forum on the ongoing genocide in #Gaza & urgently needed academic responses from across the globe, featuring panels on law, medicine, history, theology, gender, education, &international politics."
w/ Ghassan Abu-Sittah, Karma Nabulsi, Avi Shlaim, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Rev. Munther Isaac, Ilan Pappe, Ghada Ageel Hamdan, Amani Ahmed & over 40 more speakers
In Defense of #AcademicFreedom: Defamation, Intimidation, and Suspension
"In this first installment of a new series, 'In Defense of Academic Freedom,' we host faculty members who have been suspended or placed on administrative leave for their support of #Palestine during #Israel’s ongoing #GenocideInGaza."
"Tensions have been mounting at #ColumbiaUniversity for months, even before the school called police to clear a #GazaSolidarityEncampment. Pro-Palestine students say the administration hasn’t prioritized their safety. In the first of a two-part series, The Take goes behind the protests at #Columbia."
guest: Mark Van Der Hout, counsel, Defense for Children International – Palestine v. Biden
Van Der Hout discusses the suit brought by #Palestinians in US federal court suing President Biden, Secretary #Blinken and Secretary #Austin for US failure to prevent, and complicity in, the unfolding #GazaGenocide
« Alors que le premier ministre Justin Trudeau refuse toujours de réclamer un #CessezLeFeu, plusieurs milliers de manifestant·es se sont rassemblé·es en soutien au peuple palestinien sur la colline du Parlement à Ottawa, ce samedi après-midi. »
"Universities have even gone so far as to suspend leading student groups, like Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), organizing against #Israel’s genocide in #Gaza. Yet, students across the US and the world have remained defiant and steadfast in their demands against their universities' complicity with Israel’s genocide."
1/2 Palestijnse Gemeenschap in Nederland organiseert vandaag zaterdag 17 februari om 13:30 een manifestatie op de Dam. Daarna tocht naar het Museumplein. Meer info in 2/2
"As protests against #Israel’s genocide in #Gaza, ethnic cleansing on the #WestBank, and apartheid repression within ’48 harden into a proliferation of encampments on US university campuses, still more have popped up across the globe—in Asia, Europe, Mexico and elsewhere."
"What started as a student encampment at #Columbia University in New York City three weeks ago has now turned into a global #StudentMovement, expanding to Europe, Australia, Canada and beyond. We’ll get the latest from the campus grounds and ask what is next for the global #StudentMovementForGaza."
"Sai Englert answers the question: What do you respond to the argument that the university cannot cut its ties with Israeli universities because that would mean severing their relationships with the critical voices in Israel?"
From the Rotterdam Encampment & Palestine Solidarity Rotterdam
"Describing us as ‘violent’ puts us in greater danger as we continue to sleep out in tents. By claiming they do not know who we are, the university’s senior leadership have renounced their duty of care."
What started as a peaceful walkout this morning by hundreds of university staff, professors, lecturers in protest against police violence against students last week is now developing and escalating once again.
The riot police are here, hundreds of them are blocking the entrance to the university. After the university staff finished their rally, the students went in and they have built some tents right into the main hall.
The police are now coming in and [the students] are trying to block the police. They managed for a few minutes but now the police car van is driving towards the entrance and everyone here is very much hoping that the same scenario that happened last week is not repeated here.
The protests are against the war in Gaza and they’re also demanding the university to cut ties with Israeli universities but also to protest against police violence and what they say is a violation of their rights to demonstrate.
So far I’ve only seen peaceful protesters and the police is coming in and of course, there’s a lot of trauma after what happened last week so the situation is quite agitated.