Notable—unlike other schools, Wesleyan Uni says it will not clear an encampment so long as it remains non-violent:
'This morning you can find pro-Palestinian protestors camped out…as long as we all reject violence, we have opportunities to listen and to learn from one another.'

Glad to see my article about Palestinian women’s strategies of resistance and resilience amid gendered insecurity and neoliberal co-optation in the West Bank now out with Security Dialogue and open access
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

“From the River to the Sea,” tends to be presented as having a singular meaning, as is evident from reportage on the student protests. But as two Israeli scholars explain it has multiple meanings and has even been used by Jewish thinkers and activists.

publicseminar.org/2024/04/from-t…

Challenging questions after my talk at this important conference at the New School held with its encampment event.newschool.edu/anticolonialis…

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'The arrest and interrogation of a leading Palestinian legal scholar based at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem marks a new threat to civil liberties.' She had 'signed a letter calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and describing Israel’s campaign as genocide.' theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

We are honouring our UC Berkeley doctoral adviser Martin Jay on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Some of us started with him (over) 30 years ago. His landmark first book, The Dialectical Imagination, appeared in 1973.

Historian of Russia, the USSR, and the Armenian Genocide, Ron Suny, 'Genocide in Real Time,' linking the Armenian and Palestine cases. thenation.com/article/world/… #Gaza #PermanentSecurity

The policy and planning committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences released a statement on Tuesday condemning all discrimination, reaffirming students’ right to “speak and assemble freely,” and criticizing “sensational” reporting by outside news outlets.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/2…

Powerful critique of German memory and (geo)political culture by Yassin Al Haj Saleh “written out of concern for values & principles, the same values & principles I struggled for in my country, Syria – the values that are being actively & repeatedly
betrayed by the privileged in Germany”

I’m proud to be a member of this organisation.

'Folgt nicht aus der Schuld der Vergangenheit, dass gerade deutsche Regierungen die Rechte von Menschen ungeachtet ihrer Herkunft, Nationalität, Hautfarbe und Religion vor Verfolgung, Traumatisierung und Tod schützen sollten?' berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesell…

German media displaying its well-learned lessons of the past.

The arrest and continuing campaign against Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian is an attack on all of us. It is also a threat to anyone who cares about democratic values.