Leesvoer voor iedereen die zich wil informeren over de studentenprotesten:
Interview in NRC met Maya Wind, een Israëlische onderzoekster die boek schreef over de bijdrage v Israëlische universiteiten aan onderdrukking van de Palestijnen: nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/05…

Maya Wind's Towers of Ivory and Steel will be presented at Utrecht University on May 14th.. with Diana Vela Almeida 🍉 & Layal Ftouni 🌊🍉

Next week! Part I of the series Palestine in Focus discusses the role of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement and comparisons with past boycott movements such as the Anti-Apartheid Movement in South Africa in addressing historical injustices. iisg.amsterdam/en/events/pale…

Join Dutch University students and academics this Friday in a protest demanding universities implement an immediate academic boycott of complicit Israeli institutions #Gaza_Genocide #CeasefireNOW

Delighted to share this roundtable contribution for Cold War History coauthored with Lennart Bolliger.

50 free online copies are available here: tandfonline.com/eprint/JNKTGDN…

Listen up USA, Germany, UK, the Netherlands, France, Canada, Australia..

ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

«Any transfer of weapons or ammunition to Israel that would be used in Gaza is likely to violate international humanitarian law and must cease immediately, UN experts warned today »

We welcome the news that four Norwegian universities have suspended ties with complicit Israeli universities over Israel’s #GazaGenocide .

This is what Palestinians, including universities and faculty unions, are calling for as the most effective means of solidarity. 🧵

🗣️Tomorrow, from 11h30 onwards, different uni organizations will reclaim the kantine in drift 27. We will hand out free meals and create a space to discuss with all students and staff present what an ideal uni would look like, and show what is being done by different groups.

Well done EU 10/10 plan 👍🏿👏🏿

20 years ago PACBI - BDS movement called for the boycott of Israeli universities. Responding to this call, I wrote a book investigating Israeli universities' complicity in settler colonialism. Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom is out today Verso Books

NEWS: on 12 February 2024, South Africa submitted an “urgent request for additional measures under Article 75 (1)” of the Rules of Court in connection with the “developing circumstances in Rafah” in the case #SouthAfrica v. #Israel before the #ICJ tinyurl.com/wajhp3tv

‘Bombs manufactured in Texas are fitted with precision-guidance systems from Missouri, shipped to Europe, then flown, perhaps via British bases in Cyprus, to Israel before being dropped on Gaza.’

@tomfstevenson on ‘transnational’ elements in the Gaza war

lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

So grateful for the scholarship of the brilliant Davarian L. Baldwin, whose pathbreaking work on the university is a model for us all and an inspiration for the book. I'm deeply honored by your support.

Public Meeting:
If not Now, then When?

This Monday 12th of Feb (16.00-19.00) at Utrecht Uni with with Omar Barghouti, Nahed Samour and Raz Segal, and Utrecht University staff and student signatories and initiators of Open Letter: Neutrality Normalises Genocide

Israel’s so-called UNRWA dossier, which was laundered by the US government and the WSJ as some smoking gun, has now been seen by other media. Channel 4 says it “provides no evidence to support its explosive new claim that UNRWA staff were involved with terror attacks on Israel.'

Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention: the de-funding of UNRWA 'represents a shift by several countries from potential complicity in genocide to direct involvement.'
lemkininstitute.com/statements-new…

As a reminder the countries that de-funded UNRWA so far are the United States and…

🎙️Excited to launch GLOBAL SHOCKS Changing Global Orders !

A podcast where I’m interviewing leaders from a range of international organizations to find out how they deal with turbulence. 👇

🗓️ First episode 5 Feb! If interested, spread the word & follow here: linktr.ee/globalshocks

'It is my political and human opinion that children should not be slaughtered and that German cultural institutions should know better when it comes to genocide.' - Lana Bastašić 💚✊🏾🍉
lithub.com/read-novelist-…

B'Tselem Field Researcher in Gaza, Olfat al-Kurd: 'I am humiliated, insulted and heartbroken, I feel that the entire world has conspired against us. I've lost all feeling, I've become a body without a soul.'

haaretz.com/opinion/2024-0…