The following report was written by a delegate on a recent National Lawyers Guild delegation to Gaza. The Second Nakba By: Reem Salahi History repeats itself. With the key to her demolished home around her neck, the middle-aged Palestinian woman…
The movement for divestment at Hampshire college has been led by the local chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. I emailed Brian Van Slyke (right), a SJP member, to learn more about the campaign, what lessons have been learned…
Hampshire students continue to challenge their administration’s attempt to backtrack on their decision to divest from the Israeli occupation. As part of this effort they have set up a web page called “Voices of Hampshire, Voices of Divestment”. Notice the…
Yesterday the Hampshire College administration was trying to distance itself from the monumental action the school’s Board of Trustees took in divesting from the Israeli occupation. Today Hampshire students have responded. From the SJP statement: Divestment from Apartheid South Africa…
Yesterday the story leaked that Alan Dershowitz was calling members of Hampshire Students for Justice in Palestine and threatening to organize an international boycott of the school following its decision to divest from the Israeli occupation. Dershowitz has clarified his…
From the Hampshire SJP blog: This is a monumental and historic step in the struggle for Palestinian equality, self-determination and peace in the Holy Land by non violent means. I see what these students have accomplished as a replica of…
The Jerusalem Post has picked up on the Hampshire divestment movement and reports that: A pro-Palestinian student group at Hampshire College in western Massachusetts irked the college administration by disseminating a message on-line Thursday congratulating the school for becoming the…
More news from the student actions that are still expanding across UK universities. What started on January 13th as a a 24-hour occupation at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London has now spread to the London School…