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Star Palestinian playwrights exercise "Permission to Narrate"

Sarah Irving 16 March 2015

Joseph Massad 16 December 2014

Moves to “recognize Palestine” and co-opt the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement aim to guarantee Israel’s survival as a racist state. Read more about Recognizing Palestine, BDS and the survival of Israel

Joseph Massad 9 October 2014

The battle over Steven Salaita is part of a war against the neoliberal corporatization of higher education. Read more about Academic civility and its discontents

Sarah Irving 14 August 2014

More than one hundred academics sign on to “unprecedented expression of solidarity with the Palestinian people.” Read more about Top Middle East scholars call for academic boycott of Israel

Ali Abunimah 12 March 2014

Palestine solidarity activists are facing harsh censorship and retribution on at least two US campuses during Israeli Apartheid Week. Read more about Palestine solidarity group banned at Northeastern, students threatened with expulsion

Ali Abunimah 3 March 2014

I’m pleased to announce the publication of my new book, The Battle for Justice in Palestine. It has been called “a crucial book at a crucial time.” Read more about My new book “The Battle for Justice in Palestine”

Nora Barrows-Friedman 30 April 2013

The latest roundup of international news from the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment and sanctions movement. Read more about BDS Roundup: US scholars group unanimously passes boycott of Israeli institutions

Benjamin Doherty 12 April 2013

Uri Horesh 6 April 2012

Israel’s strategy of “pinkwashing” — using its supposedly stellar record on gay rights — to obscure abuses of Palestinian human rights has done more to provoke than to quiet criticism. Read more about Israel's pinkwashing exposed as dishonest at New York debates

Ali Abunimah 14 January 2012

The US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has dismissed a complaint against Barnard College – which is a partner of Columbia University – that a student was “steered” away from taking a class by Professor Joseph Massad because the student is Jewish. Read more about US Department of Education throws out Zionist group's "civil rights" complaint against Barnard College