The UC Student Association is the official voice of the student body of the University of California, and represents hundreds of thousands of undergraduate and graduate students across the UC system. Over the weekend it became the first multi-campus student association to vote in favor of divestment from companies engaged in the systematic violation of Palestinian rights in the Occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. This landmark vote is undoubtedly the largest victory thus far in the campus divestment movement in the United States.
For second time in less than two weeks, Israeli Druze who serves as IDF soldier attacked by group of Jews after speaking Arabic.
Did you think Isaac Herzog of Labor was running to Netanyahu’s left on the occupied territories? Guess again: Herzog slams Netanyahu for not hitting Gaza early enough and hard enough last summer.
Civil rights activist Sami al-Arian, the first American charged in a high profile terror case after 9/11 was deported to Turkey. Al-Arian spent 12 years incarcerated, but was never convicted of any crime. He penned an open letter on the day he left the country.
You had to RSVP to an AIPAC email address to attend Ari Shavit’s talk at a Scarsdale Reform temple last Thursday, and the event was a celebration of the rightwing Israel lobby group. And you thought Shavit was a liberal Zionist?
There’s more leftwing anti-semitism than rightwing anti-semitism, according to a new British study. But what is that alleged anti-semitism? Sharp criticism of Israel.
Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy says that a Labor victory in Israel will only entrench the occupation because the world will think there’s been change, and take off the pressure
Author and physician Alice Rothchild says that Zionism is turning out to be dangerous for both Palestinians and Jews, in a packed event at Hunter College
Yitzhar is an extremist Jewish settlement in the northern West Bank that was founded by rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg, who has commended a text condoning the killings of non-Jews. Israeli police raided it Tuesday, seizing weapons they said could be used on Palestinians or Israeli forces