RT | March 26, 2017 The influential Science Council of Japan (SCJ) adopted a statement rejecting research at civilian institutions for military purposes. It comes in response to government investment in dual-use technologies. The SCJ, which was created in 1949 as an independent body representing academia, warned Japanese universities and research institutions against participating in […]
Press TV – March 25, 2017 Hundreds of Jordanians have staged a protest rally to voice their outrage at Amman’s gas agreements with the Israeli regime, calling on the government to scrap the ‘deals of shame.’ The protesters took to the streets of the capital, Amman, on Friday, carrying national flags and holding signs to […]
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network – March 17, 2017 Activists gathered in Leuven’s crowded Oude Markt in the Belgian university city on Thursday, 16 March, to demand an end to participation by KU Leuven (the Catholic University of Leuven) and Belgian police and prosecutors in an EU-funded collaboration with Israeli police. Titled LAW-TRAIN, the project aims […]
Blockaders cover the Front Gate at the Luftwaffe’s Buchel Air Base in Germany, which deploys and trains to use up to 20 U.S. B61 hydrogen bombs on Germany Tornado jet fighter By John Laforge | CounterPunch | March 17, 2017 On March 26, nuclear disarmament activists in Germany will launch a 20-week-long series of nonviolent […]
Photo: EFE teleSUR | March 2, 2017 One year after the assassination of Honduran Indigenous leader Berta Caceres, human rights organizations and Indigenous communities continue to demand justice in the case, while the international branch of the struggle pressures to an end of U.S. funding for police and military forces accused of human rights abuses […]
By Murray Dobbin | CounterPunch | March 3, 2017 Foreign policy is one of those areas of democratic governance that doesn’t often get on the public’s radar. But when it does it provides citizens with a kind of unsullied opportunity to apply their values. That is, unsullied by considerations of self-interest, we get to ask […]
By Ann Wright | Consortium News | March 1, 2017 An often-used tactic to squelch criticism of Israeli state policies toward the Palestinians is to call the criticism anti-Semitic. The sponsors of the event become afraid of the label, anti-Semitism, false as it is, and cancel the event to avoid any controversy. The tactic is used widely […]
Press TV – February 28, 2017 Two British universities have been accused of undermining freedom of speech after cancelling an annual pro-Palestinian event aimed at raising awareness about human rights violations in the occupied territories. The accusation was leveled on Monday after the University of Exeter and the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) announced the […]
RT | February 22, 2017 British universities have been advised to “manage” Palestinian activism on campus in order to comply with the UK government’s ‘Prevent’ counter-extremism strategy. “Vocal support for Palestine,” “Opposition to Israeli settlements in Gaza,” and “Criticism of wars in the Middle East” are included in a list of “contentious topics” on the […]
If Americans Knew | February 17, 2017 Alison Weir provides the following report back on an event that almost didn’t happen: After I was invited by the Social Justice Committee of the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists (BFUU) to give a public presentation, extremist pro-Israel activists went to work to get the event canceled. They put up blog posts […]
