Angela Davis on the importance of solidarity with Palestinians as they face genocide in Gaza.
Mark Ruffalo, Susan Sarandon, Angela Davis, and Peter Gabriel are among the public figures who have praised Barcelona’s mayor for cutting ties with Israel.
Participants from the first delegation to visit occupied Palestine of feminists from Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and Asian communities reconvened on the 10 year anniversary of the trip to recount what they saw and share how visiting Palestine continues to impact them to this day.
Students at Butler University say an event featuring Angela Davis was abruptly canceled by the school following pressure from Zionist students.
Palestine Writes Literature Festival, a celebration of Palestinian writing past and present, will take place on December 2-6, 2020. The Festival will be hosted on a cutting-edge virtual platform with 3-D virtual spaces, live chats, networking rooms, and more.
Marc Lamont Hill seems emboldened by his firing by CNN last year for daring to imagine equal rights in Israel and Palestine. On Wednesday night, he spoke of “Gettin’ rid of the settler colonial project altogether” and mocked the term, “liberal Zionist, whatever that is.” He will appear on a star-studded panel about Palestine on Saturday May 4 at UMass Amherst.
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute has now gone full circle: It announced today that it has voted to give a human rights award to Angela Davis after all! The institute rescinded the award to Davis on Jan. 4 due in part to her support for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) targeting Israel.
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, over 350 scholars of the Civil Rights and Black Freedom Movements, and veterans of these historic struggles, along with educators and human rights advocates, issued the following statement in support of Palestinian human rights, and in defense of, Angela Y. Davis, who was publicly dishonored three weeks ago by the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute when it abruptly reversed its decision to recognize her with its annual award because of her stand on Palestinian rights.
Marc Ellis writes that the rescinding by the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute of an award to Angela Davis raises issues about the Black-Jewish alliance and the ability of Jews to set parameters for African Americans to speak on Jewish questions, including Israel. There is a war over that question. The Jewish establishment sees Angela Davis as an enemy. Jews of Conscience see her as an ally.