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Huguette Caland (أوغيت الخوري), Appleton I, (mixed media on canvas), 2009 [© Huguette Caland]

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Displaced (1957) by Palestinian revolutionary Ghassan Kanafani

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As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. You will go out in joy     and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.

Isaiah 55:10-12

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🔻 "Resistance is the deepest form of love."

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First Communion - Chalma, State of Mexico 1984. Graciela Iturbide.

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Hosni Radwan, 1980 Arabic: ولا بد القيد ان ينكس English: The chains must [inevitably] break (A famous line from Tunisian poet Abu Al-Qasim Al-Shabbi's The Will to Life)

[ID: A poster illustration depicting a keffiyeh hanging out of a barred prison window. The window frame is cracked and the bars are in the process of transforming into leafy green shoots, with the keffiyeh's pattern extending onto them. The background is a brown-orange-yellow gradient, with orange Arabic text at the top. /end ID]

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A fighter from the ‘Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades’ (The armed wing of the ‘Hamas’ movement) kisses the forehead of an ex-prisoner released by the Hamas-Israel prisoner swap

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Eric Lee Johnson

Cat Nap (Cat sleeping on porch), 1950s

New Zealand

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Joel 2:25 (RSV)

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black panther party (bpp) newspaper , April 25, 1967

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aaliyah for blues & soul magazine, july 2000

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"this house will remain palestinian"

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The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and Filipino revolutionary forces consider the missile and drone attacks of the Islamic Republic of Iran against the Zionist regime’s military bases as a just and measured response to Israel’s attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria last April 1, which killed 18 officers and men of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

Iran’s attacks penetrated the much-vaunted Iron Dome defense system and punctured a big hole on the arrogance of the Zionist regime. It has emboldened and inspired millions of people around the world, especially the Palestinian people. They see Iran’s attacks as just retribution for the relentless and genocidal US-backed war being waged by Israel in Gaza, which have killed more than 33,000 Palestinians since October 2023.

Iran’s retaliation comes after decades of restraint over continued attacks by the Zionist regime. In years prior, the Zionist Israel carried out at least six assassinations against Iranian nuclear scientists, killing five. It also worked hand-in-hand with US military forces which carried out the 2020 drone assassination against Iranian top general Qassem Soleimani in Iraq.

After carrying out her retaliation, Iran declared that “the matter can be deemed concluded.” We join in condemning threats of further escalation coming from Israel and the US government which has publicly declared “ironclad support” to Israel.

We express our solidarity with the Palestinian people as they continue to intensify their resistance, armed and otherwise, to push back against US-supported Israel from Gaza and regain the rest of their homeland.

We urge the Filipino people and peoples around the world to continue rallying support for the Palestinian people and demand that the US government, Benjamin Netanyahu and his officers be held accountable and punished for the countless war crimes committed by the Zionist Israel.

Marco Valbuena | Chief Information Officer | Communist Party of the Philippines | April 14, 2024

#palestine #anti-zionism #zionism #anti imperialism

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Is Israeli academia about to enter a whole new phase? All signs are that it already has. In the past few weeks, Haaretz spoke with more than 60 Israeli scholars from a wide range of disciplines and academic institutions, from young scientists and university presidents about their experiences with colleagues abroad since the war broke out in the Gaza Strip after Hamas' massacre on October 7.

They recounted dozens of incidents: cancellation of invitations to conferences, a freeze on their appointments in foreign institutions, rejection of scientific articles on political grounds, disruption of lectures abroad, cessation of collaborative efforts with colleagues abroad, refusal by such colleagues to take part in the promotion process their Israeli counterparts must undergo at local institutions, and even a sweeping boycott of local colleges and universities. The following examples, all from recent months and backed up by documents and emails, are being made public here for the first time. The plethora of events leaves no room for doubt: Israel is feeling the brunt of an unprecedented academic boycott, which is only gathering momentum.

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It once seemed as if the social sciences and humanities are more vulnerable to political struggles. Indeed, such departments in Israel were familiar with the impact of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement long before October 7. However, the cessation of collaboration – whether in conducting research, co-authoring articles or in other areas – is now being seen as a widespread phenomenon in all fields.

A few months ago, Nir Davidson, a physics professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, suggested to an Italian colleague that they try together to request a grant from a competitive research foundation. "Because of the atrocities your country is perpetrating against innocent civilians, thousands of professors and researchers have signed a petition calling for all research collaboration to be blocked," the colleague replied, noting that he "fondly recalls" a visit he made to Israel in 2020, but adding, "I'm afraid that what your country has done and is continuing to do will never be forgotten or forgiven."

About a month ago, a scientist from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev was ejected from an international group that submits research proposals to the European Union in the realm of environmental studies. The explanation he was given by one of his colleagues was, "I'm really sorry, but I'm going to have to not select Israel as a partner for the project. In fact, some partners do not wish to be involved in the project if Israel is a partner, particularly given the current political context. I am truly sorry, and I hope that we will have the opportunity to work together on another research project. Thank you for your understanding and I wish you all the best for the future."

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"I am writing to let you know that I have decided to step down from the Ph.D. committee [reviewing a student's thesis]," a foreign social sciences scholar wrote the Hebrew University recently. "Following the university's recent declaration of commitment to Zionism in the context of the war that is raging in Gaza, I feel I can no longer be associated with this institution. I have enjoyed working with you all and it is with a heavy heart that I am making this decision."

The "commitment to Zionism" the professor cited was part of the fierce public condemnation the university issued against sharp remarks by Israeli-Palestinian Prof. Shalhoub-Kevorkian, of its law faculty, against Israel's conduct in the war in Gaza. "As a proud Israeli, public, and Zionist institution," the university stated, it condemned her comments and suspended her, before reinstating her two weeks later.

The email from the foreign academic who asked to stop advising the Hebrew University doctoral student is only one example of an apparently growing phenomenon whereby scholars overseas no longer want to help prepare the next generation of lecturers and researchers at Israeli institutions: Sources at a few such institutions admit that they find it increasingly difficult to obtain the letters of evaluation from academics abroad that must be submitted in advance of discussions of staff promotions in Israel.

For the present, it looks as though the latter trend is particularly noticeable in the social sciences and the humanities: in sociology and anthropology, Middle Eastern studies and literature. But according to a source at one university, the field of law is also falling victim to such dwindling collaboration with foreign schools.

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"If the Israeli government commits irrevocably to either a two-state (within 1967 borders) or one-state solution in which all Palestinians in both Israel and the occupied territories have equal rights to Israelis – I will be happy to engage with Israeli institutions," a senior researcher at a prestigious institution in Europe wrote recently, in response to a request to write an evaluation for an Israeli academic. "Until that day, no." Another European academic wrote: "I do not believe that this suffering of civilians can be justified and I believe that Israel is not acting in accordance with international human rights law. In light of that, I feel I cannot collaborate with any Israeli institution at the moment."

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"The dam has burst," Drori declares now. "Talking about an academic boycott of scientists in Israel has become legitimate. It's a whole new world. We are in a very extreme situation, and I don't know whether and how it will be possible to reverse things. The boycott is severing our ability to be involved in the forefront of research. All scientific research that does not involve the international community is research that is less good. The severance from the world is suffocating us."

If the pool of international experts who are willing to cooperate with Israel does continue to shrink, Israeli academics will face discouraging alternatives: to approach less senior academics from less well-regarded universities (which, according to a knowledgeable source, is already happening in some cases), or to increase the proportion of assessments provided by local faculty – not a particularly palatable solution.

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A number of universities and academic organizations in Belgium, Spain, Italy and Norway recently announced full boycotts or a suspension of ties with Israeli institutions until they receive clarifications with regard to topics ranging from the state of academic freedom on their campuses, to their moral, financial and material support for Israel's defense forces. For one, Ghent University recently requested such information from its counterpart in Haifa.

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"The best-case scenario is that within a short time we will return to some sort of stability," says American studies professor Milette Shamir, vice president of Tel Aviv University and director of its international academic collaborations. "Our standing in the world will be rehabilitated and we will be able to return to the situation we were in, to very extensive international activity."

But Shamir acknowledges that she "doesn't know whether that scenario is realistic." Two weeks ago, she was in Australia to attend an academic fair at the University of Sydney. When she arrived, pro-Palestinian demonstrators shouted that Tel Aviv University shares in crimes against the Palestinians and that all collaborations with Israel should end.

"The worst-case scenario is that we are headed in the direction of South Africa [in the apartheid period]," she says, "with boycotts that keep mounting to the point of paralyzing the system. The result will be a mortal blow to Israeli academia. It will take on a provincial character and we will not be able to integrate into the forefront of the world's research."

— 'I Won't Work With You. You're Committing Genocide': Israeli Academia Faces an Unprecedented Global Boycott. Or Kashti, Haaretz, April 14 2024

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