updated Wed. September 11, 2024
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JNS.org
April 1, 2018
The Lawfare Project reports that the General Union of Palestine Students president, Mohammad Hammad, wrote “graphic and lurid Tumblr posts ... attorneys representing five student and two non-student plaintiffs filed a second amended complaint against San Francisco State University March 29 allegingÃâà...
Middle East Monitor
March 29, 2018
An Israeli occupation military court renewed the detention of Omar Al-Kiswani, head of the Students' Council, who was kidnapped by undercover Israeli forces from Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank, Al-Resalah newspaper reported yesterday. Lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners' Club MamounÃâà...
University World News
March 23, 2018
Speaking at the University of Cape Town on 14 March as part of the university's Palestine Solidarity Forum's 14th Israeli Apartheid Week, South Africa's ... less funding, fewer teachers, and Arab students and lecturers are underrepresented in Israel's universities and other institutes of higher education”.
Haaretz
March 20, 2018
Nur and Mohammed are two of the thousands of Israelis Arabs who are getting their higher education in the West Bank. At a time when the number of students attending universities in Israel is dropping, in general (students are also flocking to private colleges instead), a report from the Palestinian EducationÃâà...
JNS.org
March 6, 2018
“Dalal Mughrabi is a role model, like other heroic female martyrs in Palestine,” Madeline Manna, coordinator of Fatah's “Sisters of Dalal” university committee,” said last month on the P.A. television program “Palestine This Morning.” She continued: “In the Palestinian universities, especially in the FatahÃâà...
Arizona Daily Sun
March 6, 2018
The lawsuit filed in federal court here says the university won't allow Hatem Bazian to speak on campus about the "boycott, divest, sanction'' movement aimed at pressuring Israel to change its policies, particularly in regard to Jewish settlements on the West Bank. That's because Bazian won't sign anÃâà...
Washington Examiner
March 6, 2018
An Antifa mob stormed a lecture hall at the King's College in London Monday night, forcing an Ayn Rand Institute event to be evacuated. .... Brook's talk was organized by the KCL Socialist Students, Intersectional Feminist Society, Kashmir Solidarity Movement, KCL LGBT+, KCL Action Palestine Society,Ãâà...
Palestine Herald Press
March 6, 2018
City officials on Monday named Gayle Cooper the new executive director of the Palestine Economic Development Corporation. The former director ... Cooper, who holds a masters degree in global technology from Arizona State University, cited Palestine's beauty and potential for growth. “I was attracted toÃâà...
Idaho Business Review
March 6, 2018
Bryce Blair has been promoted to manager of the Hayden branch of Mountain West Bank. ... He holds a bachelor's degree in business administration with a concentration in management at Post University in Waterbury, Connecticut and a master's degree in organizational leadership through Colorado StateÃâà...
Arizona Daily Sun
March 6, 2018
The lawsuit filed in federal court here says the university won't allow Hatem Bazian to speak on campus about the "boycott, divest, sanction'' movement aimed at pressuring Israel to change its policies, particularly in regard to Jewish settlements on the West Bank. That's because Bazian won't sign anÃâà...
Santa Barbara Edhat
March 6, 2018
The Humanist Society of Santa Barbara February talk covered the conflict between Israel and Palestine. ... Their work was then passed to two prominent historians: Moshe Ma'oz (Professor Emeritus in Middle East History and Islam at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem) and Palestinian historian and authorÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 6, 2018
The Knesset passed legislation on February 12 that applies Israeli law to settler academic institutions in the occupied West Bank, such as the Ariel University found in an Israeli settlement of the same name near the Palestinian town of Salfit. Simultaneously, the justice ministry is advancing a law that wouldÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 6, 2018
The University of Cambridge has apologised to a Palestinian academic, who it prevented from chairing a talk on the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement in November last year. Ruba Salih from the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS) in London was stopped from moderating the eventÃâà...
Daily Free Press (blog)
December 31, 1999
While many students are aware that conflict exists between Israel and Palestine, far fewer understand the complex origins of that political tension. Thursday, Boston University community members gathered to hear Boston College professor Eve Spangler lecture about Palestine and recount her experiencesÃâà...
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
According to Palestinian statistics, by 2020 there will be 7.12 million Arabs and 6.96 million Jews living in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. .... Asad Ghanem of the political science department at the University of Haifa, said: "The Jews were a minority [in Palestine] in 1948, but following proper organizing andÃâà...
Al-Monitor
December 31, 1999
According to statistics of the Ministry of Education, from the 2016-17 academic year, the number of higher education institutions in Gaza recognized and licensed by the Ministry of Education and Higher Education amounts to 15: five traditional universities, four university colleges and six community colleges.
WAFA
December 31, 1999
RAMALLAH, March 31, 2018 (WAFA) – Palestinians observed a general strike in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem on Saturday heeding a call ... Shops shuttered their doors, universities and schools suspended their classes and most businesses observed the general strike in protest against theÃâà...
The Electronic Intifada (blog)
December 31, 1999
Last week, students at the University of Virginia protested during a campus event featuring a group of Israeli soldiers. The soldiers were part of Reservists on Duty, an organization that aims to counter the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights on US college campuses.
