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2025.04.29: Read Palestine! Writing Workshop

Room of One’s Own Annex, 6-8 pm

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Carrefour closes all branches in Jordan due to BDS pressure

Carrefour Group is a French multinational retail and wholesaling corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, grocery, and convenience…

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2024.09.17: Growing Repression of Dissent on Palestine

10 am CT Online Join this online briefing to learn more about growing repression of…

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Israeli documents show expansive government effort to shape US discourse around Gaza war

Lee Fang and Jack Poulson, The Guardian, Mon 24 Jun 2024

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All Eyes on Rafah

Israel’s International Isolation and Drift Towards Authoritarianism Joel Beinin, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History…

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Campus in Crisis

Jewish Currents, May 3, 2024 Eli Valley is a Jewish Currents contributing writer. His comics collection Diaspora Boy: Comics…

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Observations about the Campus Protests

PETER BEINART, MAY 06, 2024 Six Observations about the Campus Protests by Peter Beinart Read…

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2024.04.18: Israel Has Formed a Task Force to Carry Out Covert Campaigns at US Universities

William I. Robinson , TRUTHOUT, March 23, 2024

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“Language Is Inadequate” to Describe the Horror, Part 2

DEMOCRACY NOW!, MARCH 06, 2024

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CNN staff say network’s pro-Israel slant amounts to ‘journalistic malpractice’

Chris McGreal, The Guardian, 4 Feb 2024

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Israel is not targeting “terrorists” hiding behind “human shields.”

On the contrary, it’s targeting the “human shields” themselves. NORMAN FINKELSTEIN, DEC 27, 2023 Media…

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2023.11.29-12.05: #ReadPalestine Week

PUBLISHERS FOR PALESTINE Join us for an international #ReadPalestine week, starting Wednesday, November 29, on…

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“We Need Eyes on Us for Protection”

Unhinged, Murderous Settlers Terrorize Palestinians in the South Hebron Hills As Gaza faces genocide, extremist…

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OPINION: Israeli–Palestinian conflict not a “two-sides” issue

Nevine El Nossery, Madison365, Nov 2, 2023

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Writing while expecting to die

“Can you kindly publish the attached stories if I die?” This is what we have…

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Gaza shatters the facade of ‘calm’

Mohammed R. Mhawish, +972 Magazine, October 8, 2023

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The violent lies of Israel’s president

Yuli Novak, +972 Magazine, July 31, 2023

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The only answer to the Israeli right’s war: A state for all its citizens

Ameer Fakhoury, +972 Magazine, July 30, 2023

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Jenin by American Jewish Cartoonist Eli Valley

Jenin by Eli Valley, July 7, 2023 Jewish Cartoonist Eli Valley Sparks Angry Debate…

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