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Tuesday Talk*: What’s Poor Harvard To Do?
After a laundry list of Harvard student associations issued an open letter blaming the rape, kidnapping and murder of women, children and the elderly on Israel and the United States, opening with the sentence, “Today’s events did not occur in…
The prospects of establishing a truth-seeking mechanism in addressing the legacies of human rights atrocities in the Israel-Palestine conflict
Kaye Vassallo The Israel-Palestine conflict is a complex and long-standing dispute that centres around competing claims to land and sovereignty as both Palestinians and Israelis claim historical and religious ties to the territory. The conflict has been ongoing for seven…
Homemaking, Identity, and Social Economy – A History of Arab Migration to the United States
By Nick Urick
Meet Ribhia Abdelhady, my grandmother: a Palestinian-American whose migration narrative taps into the nuanced history of the Arab movement from the Middle East to the United States. On the eve of the 1967 Six-Day War, the Israeli military…
Cuba Libre and The Grocery Clerks
When it happened, K.C. Johnson was outraged. Not only was the resolution blindly, by which I mean ignorantly, biased, but what business did the Professional Staff Congress of CUNY, the union representing faculty in labor negotiations, have taking a public…
Osgoode admin, Jewish and Muslim students’ associations issue statement on Israel and Palestine
Joint statement expresses commitment to ensuring law school community engages in respectful dialogue
Trump Releases Middle East Peace Plan Including Plans For Jerusalem and Holy Sites
President Trump today released his his 181-page Israeli- Palestinian peace plan titled Peace To Prosperity. (Full text of plan.) The briefer Fact Sheet released by the White House summarizes the plan’s provisions on Holy Sites in Jerusalem:
Israel…
Karawan brand Tahini recalled over Salmonella worry
By Bill Marler
Brodt Zenatti Holding LLC of Jupiter, Florida is recalling all retail and bulk Karawan brand Tahini, sold in Jars: 450g (15.87 oz) and Buckets: 17kg (599.6 oz) that were imported from Palestine between the dates of December 2018 to April…
Israeli Legislation Allowing Israeli Settlements on Privately-Owned Palestinian Land Said to Contravene International Law
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today deeply regretted the adoption by Israel’s legislative body, the Knesset, of the so called “Regularisation bill,” saying the measure contravenes international law and will have “far-reaching legal consequences” for the country.A statement from the…
UK’s OFSI Renews Palestine Terrorist Asset Freezes
With effect from 7 December 2016, HM Treasury’s Office of Financial Sanctions has renewed for 12 months the UK asset freezes which apply to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Popular Front for the Liberation…