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After the Encampments—A Roundtable with Student Organizers on Palestine, the University and What Comes Next by Maya Wind, Students from Collettivi Autorganizzati Universitari (Italy), Stop Academic Complicity Collective (France), KCL Stands for Justice (UK), UCI Rank and File (USA), Academic Opposition (Germany)

PLEASE TAKE ACTION RIGHT NOW AND SEND YOUR LETTER TO THE UN OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL ADVISER ON THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT PROSECUTOR.

We are almost three years into the genocide now, and over a year into organizing, and these student bodies have only solidified and become stronger. I am Palestinian, and it is so heartening to see the Palestinian struggle inspire so many people to become organized. I’m very optimistic about where we’re going. I think, ultimately, we’ll see the downfall of Israeli academia and of Israel as a whole. Israeli academia will never be seen in universities in the same way and that is because of this type of organizing. It’s not if it is going to happen, it is inevitable. We’re just making it quicker. I’m so inspired by everyone here. And I hope that’s a high note we can end on.

Continue reading at https://www.merip.org/2026/04/after-the-encampments-a-roundtable-with-student-organizers-on-palestine-the-university-and-what-comes-next/

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Israel Is Waging War on Palestinian Prisoners by Lisa Hajjar and Basil Farraj

PLEASE TAKE ACTION RIGHT NOW AND SEND YOUR LETTER TO THE UN OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL ADVISER ON THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT PROSECUTOR.

  2. Interrogators dispensed with “moderate physical pressure”—the Israeli euphemism for its torture tactics—in favor of the crudest forms of physical violence, including beatings, protracted shackling in painful positions, suffocation and sexual assault.[3] Brute violence became endemic throughout every prison and detention center. Since October 7, at least 60 Palestinians died or were killed in Israeli custody, a figure that does not include an unknown number of Palestinians from Gaza whose reported deaths in military facilities are unconfirmed.

In the current moment—as Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has killed tens of thousands, and military assaults and state-supported settler pogroms are rampant across the West Bank—the level and scope of violence and dehumanization perpetrated by Israeli soldiers, security agents and IPS staff against detainees and prisoners has extended the hot war into prisons.

Continue reading at https://merip.org/2024/09/israel-is-waging-war-on-palestinian-prisoners/