Heavy construction equipment is used to sift through rubble to uncover valuables before it is transported away from the scene of a building destroyed by Israeli air strikes
THOUSANDS of university departments and academics around the world have joined the global outcry against Israel’s latest violence against Palestinians.
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) — a group with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement — has described the recent surge of support on campuses for Palestinian rights as an “unprecedented wave of solidarity.”
The campaign group highlights the action being taken at Cambridge University, where 1,600 faculty members, staff, students and alumni have urged management to “sever formal links and partnerships” with firms complicit in Israeli apartheid.
Given the recent rejection of peace proposals by Israel the world must provide an immediate and resolute response to force accountability on Gaza, argues RAMZY BAROUD
The struggle for Palestinian freedom has become a defining issue for everyone committed to justice, democracy and peace, says PETER LEARY ahead of the Stop the War International Conference on Saturday
On International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, HUGH LANNING warns that the US-led “Comprehensive Plan” entrenches decades of Western complicity in Israel’s domination and denial of Palestinian land and rights