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James Bridle: ‘The Denial of Genocide Is on the March Everywhere’ on ArtReview

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  2. It is also impossible to separate causes and politics in the way that the Schelling Foundation, and other institutions, want to. The theme of this year’s prize was ‘Deep Transformations – Earth, Landscape, Architecture’. In their public statement announcing the rescinding of my prize, they wrote that my ‘publications on the complex relationships between society, technology and ecology have significantly enriched the current discourse’. They fail to understand, or choose to ignore, how my politics are of a piece with my philosophy. I write about the beauty, personhood, intelligence and vitality of all beings on this Earth. In Gaza and the West Bank, and now in Lebanon, they are burning the olive groves. Since 1967, an estimated 800,000 Palestinian olive trees have been destroyed in the West Bank and Gaza Strip by Israeli authorities and settlers. Genocide is ecocide; ecocide is genocide.

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Aug 25. Press Release: Responding to New Student Conduct Document by NYU SJP

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  2. NEW YORK, August 25, 2024 – We are alarmed by NYU’s updated guidance on student conduct shared by Provost Gigi Dopico and Executive Vice President Martin Dorph on August 22, 2024… The new NDAH guidance represents an intensification of NYU’s year-long effort to censor criticism and criminalize protest of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. This intensification is itself the predictable outcome of the University’s misguided decision to fully incorporate the problematic IHRA definition of antisemitism into its NDAH policy, and appears likely to be connected to the closed-door settlement the University made in response to Ingber et al. v. NYU. Since the terms of that settlement remain sealed, we cannot know to what extent these new policies are mandated by the suit. 

Continue reading at https://facultyforpalestine.education/2024/08/25/aug-25-press-release-responding-to-new-student-conduct-document/

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Censoring Palestine: human rights, academic freedom and the IHRA by Lana Tatour

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  1. The racial logic of the IHRA that conflates calls for justice for Palestine with antisemitism, and the McCarthyist environment it has created, is further demonstrated in the recent responses to and the handling of student encampments on our campuses. Inspired by the global student solidarity movement for Palestinian liberation, eleven encampments have been recorded across Australia, demanding that universities divest from companies that benefit from the genocide of Palestinians and boycott Israeli universities and institutions. This immediately triggered an orchestrated right-wing campaign calling the encampments antisemitic and Nazi and labelling the students as terrorism supporters and terrorists.Footnote36 Rather than focusing on the students’ demands, accusations of antisemitism dominated much of the public conversation in the media, by politicians, and in universities about the legitimacy of the encampments. 

Continue reading at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1323238X.2024.2385504#abstract

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Barnard: Stop Legitimizing Apartheid! Cancel Kenneth Stern’s Events! by JVP Columbia

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The fact is, Zionism is a distinct, ethno-nationalist political ideology that many Jews of all kinds—from Orthodox Jews to secular socialist Jews—have opposed since its inception. As Jewish students, it is deeply painful to see our Judaism, an incredibly meaningful part of our identities, be weaponized to fuel a violent, settler-colonial project that has resulted in the displacement, subjugation, and genocide of millions of Palestinians. Conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism does not protect Jews.

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Israel Admits its Guilt (and Other Arguments) by Jim Miles

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There are two solutions left.  First is the status quo, a slow genocide and ethnic removal of the Palestinian people, preferably to surrounding Arab states (Saudi Arabia, a US-Israeli ally would certainly not welcome them), or less preferably to small islets of apartheid.  The whole process could be sped up by a regional war, say with Iran, under cover of which Israel could attempt to expel masses of Palestinians.

The second solution is what many have demanded of Canada (remember, no double standards):  justice and restoration – of rights, of property, of health and education, of infrastructure, of legal equality as well as full political participation in the governance of the country. Simple solution, but entirely against the beliefs of the current Israeli system.

Continue reading at https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israel-admits-its-guilt-and-other-arguments/

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Defend free speech! Stop the criminalization of solidarity with Palestine! by the Committee for Revolutionary International Regroupment (CRIR)

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IHRA’s efforts to equate the institutions of the Jewish religion and its cultural tradition with the policies of the state of Israel will only intensify the oppression, exploitation and genocide suffered by the Palestinian people at the hands of the Israeli government, parliament and army. This campaign’s goal is to provide immunity for Israel’s actions while criminalizing all those who stand in solidarity with the Palestinian cause.

Continue reading at https://socialism.com/statement/defend-free-speech-stop-the-criminalization-of-solidarity-with-palestine/

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Trump’s new executive order promotes white supremacy by Yoav Litvin

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American Jews are US citizens with full rights and obligations, while enjoying freedom to practise Judaism as a religion similar to all other religious groups. Defining Israel as a Jewish instead of a Zionist project and Judaism as a race or nationality immediately raises profoundly problematic issues of dual loyalty, and exposes American Jews to criticism, manipulation and potential abuse due to Israel’s reactionary agenda of apartheid and genocide of Palestinians. 

Continue reading at https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/trump-executive-order-promotes-white-supremacy-191212101618261.html