Fatima Mohammed’s criticism of Israel, white supremacy, and the NYPD have led to public condemnations from U.S. politicians and pro-Israel groups. Many are calling for the university to be defunded over the speech.
On May 15th, as people worldwide commemorated the 75th anniversary of the ongoing Nakba, the City University of New York ramped up its repression of student-led Palestine solidarity organizing.
Georgia’s General Assembly failed to pass a bill adopting the IHRA’s controversial working definition of antisemitism for the third time, but Israel lobby groups are continuing to push similar laws across the country.
Two Lloyds Bank employees were penalized for their Palestine support. Now they’re suing the bank for discrimination.
Zionist watchdog groups like Honest Reporting have launched smear campaigns to silence the voices of Palestinian journalists, often causing many of them to lose their jobs. Media organizations have to ask themselves: will they continue to allow such groups to dictate their journalism, or will they dare to be as fearless as the Palestinian journalists they claim to support?
Dr. Tomomi Kinukawa shares their opening and closing statements in their grievance hearing against San Francisco State University for the silencing of “Whose Narratives? Gender, Justice, & Resistance: A Conversation with Leila Khaled.”
A Google employee in California says she was relocated to Brazil after calling on the company to terminate its contract with the Israeli government.
Recent headlines have only confirmed people’s fears: Israel is monitoring and censoring everything about Palestinian life — both online and in the digital sphere. Mondoweiss speaks with 7amleh’s Nadim Nashif about the launch of the first open source online platform to monitor, document, and follow up on the digital rights violations of Palestinians.
On behalf of 400 medical, public health, and community leaders, the Massachusetts Coalition for Health Equity is calling on Scientific American to immediately re-publish an article on Palestine solidarity that it removed, and to end its censorship of Palestinian voices.
The Scientific American has removed a piece calling for solidarity with Palestinians from its website after being pressured by pro-Israel groups.