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Ali Abunimah Lobby Watch 15 December 2017 Graffiti on the Israeli-built wall dividing the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem promotes the BDS — boycott, divestment and sanctions — movement. Ryan Rodrick Beiler ActiveStills An Israel lobby group is trying to expand its efforts to sue academics who support Palestinian rights, as part of a […]
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Steven Salaita keynotes conference on academic boycott of Israel in Ireland
October 24th, 2017 
Awake Goy This conference, organized by the M.Phil. in Ethnic and Racial Studies at Trinity College Dublin, and supported by Trinity College Dublin (TCD), aimed to explore the paradoxes and limits of free speech and academic freedom under the conditions of the neoliberal university. The academic boycott of Israeli higher education institutions was taken as an example of […]
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No Comments »Kerry, Heinz Family Have Millions Invested In Offshore Tax Havens
April 27th, 2016 Awake Goy Secretary of State John Kerry and his wife Teresa Heinz have invested millions of U.S. dollars through family trusts in at least 11 offshore tax havens, according to The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group. The revelation comes on the heels of the release of the Panama Papers, a treasure trove of 11.5 […]
Posted in World News Tags: american, beirut, cancel, hiring, intervenes, president, process, protest, Salaita, school, steven, students, support, university No Comments »Top Israeli officials face arrest in Spain, South Africa
November 17th, 2015 Awake Goy Charlotte Silver Rights and Accountability 17 November 2015 Palestinians in Gaza commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Mavi Marmara massacre when 10 Turkish activists were shot dead by Israeli forces in international waters. Ashraf Amra APA images Over the last week 11 Israeli officials have had international arrest warrants against them circulated for their role […]
Rights Expert: Harsh interrogation of 13-year-old Palestinian boy ‘may amount to torture’
November 13th, 2015 Awake Goy A controversial video was leaked to Palestinian media on November 8th, revealing an aggressive Israeli security interrogation of 13-year old Ahmad Manasra, who was indicted on October 30th by Israel’s Jerusalem District Court for attempting to murder two Israelis near the Pisgat Zeev settlement in East Jerusalem. The 10-minute video depicts an Israeli interrogator verbally […]
Posted in World News Tags: academics, concerned, Illinois, pleased, Salaita, settlement, university No Comments »Netanyahu brings neocons and liberal Zionists together again
November 12th, 2015 Awake Goy Eisner and Makovsky remind me of the German elites of 1932-1934. They saw what was happening – the fascism growing in their midst, the slow erosion of Democratic principles, even the beginning of the calls for ethnic cleansing, and for separation of the Arian race. But, on the whole, they did nothing to stop the […]
East Jerusalem is closed for Palestinians, but settlers march unimpeded
October 16th, 2015 Awake Goy Israeli police shut hundreds of Palestinian businesses in the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City Tuesday night hours before a general order from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for “a closure on, or to surround, centers of friction and incitement” went into effect. Yet after the Palestinian stores were shuttered, police escorted more than 200 Israeli […]
Posted in World News Tags: challenging, israel, nyc, Palestine, people, power, Salaita, steven, trouble No Comments »Judge concerned Univ. of Illinois may destroy Steven Salaita evidence
September 30th, 2015 Awake Goy Ali Abunimah Rights and Accountability 29 September 2015 Steven Salaita speaks at the Maryland AAUP’s conference on academic freedom, at John Hopkins University, 25 April. Mike Ferguson AAUP A federal judge has ordered the University of Illinois to preserve all evidence related to the Steven Salaita case. In a ruling issued Tuesday, US District Judge […]
