Fresh on the heels of the Gaza visits by Congressmen John Kerry, Brian Baird, and Keith Ellison, another sign that President Obama is telling officials to change our policy visavis Israel/Palestine. Obama plans to name an Arabist, Chas Freeman, former…
From their website. No reasons are given for the decision. There is no apparent agreement with the NYU administration… News accounts suggest that NYU ended the occupation with arrests.
The student occupation of the NYU student center is continuing, although the administration has closed the center, and cut off internet access and electricity to the students. Despite this, negotiations between the students and the NYU administration have begun. Here’s…
Notice how moderate the pro-Gaza language was in the NYU students’ demands. Nothing about divestment. By demanding investigation into war and genocide profiteers, providing aid to Gaza, and offering scholarships to Palestinian students, we are demanding that the University heed…
Inspired by a French Jew we wrote about 10 days ago, Osha Neumann (along with brother Michael) demand that Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, remove the name of their grandmother. Our grandmother was a victim of that very…
Ellison and Baird, take photos of the rubble of the American International school in Beit Lahiya in the northern of Gaza Strip. Photo: Adel Hana, Associated Press Brian Baird(D-WA-03), and Keith Ellison, (D-MN-05) have issued their first statement since visiting…
This morning BBC radio had a good report on Senator John Kerry’s visit to Gaza, along with Congressmen Brian Baird of Washington and Keith Ellison of Minnesota, a Muslim. Kerry announced to a press conference exactly what Barack Obama announced…
The worldwide student movement of occupying university centers after the war in Gaza continues to spread in the US. Two weeks after a student occupation at the University of Rochester, students at NYU have taken the Kimmel Center for University…
The belief that the US and Israel share common values seems to be unraveling in the wake of Avigdor Lieberman’s success in the recent Israeli elections. Two days after former US ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer admitted it would be…