Justice for Palestine
August 9, 2024 - By Kerry Sinanan
I have crossed an oceanI have lost my tongueFrom the root of the old oneA new one has sprung Epilogue, Grace Nichols (Please donate to the Grenada Disaster Fund) Caribbean hybrid identities are characterized by survival and creativity out of monumental loss, including various languages from Arawakan, to Patois to Kreyòl. But very rarely are Caribbean people . . .
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July 26, 2024 - By Jim Hicks
The UMass4Palestine press conference in front of the Eastern Hampshire County Courthouse in Massachusett, July 17, 2024. Photo: courtesy of UMass FJP. On February 25, 2024, Aaron Bushnell, a member of the US Air Force, set himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. to protest the U.S. . . .
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July 13, 2024 - By sabine broeck
schutzbunker she says sternly facing us on tagesshau public television paid with our taxes both parts of this untranslatable german noun a blatant lie there is no bunker in gaza for the maimed, hurt, terrorized, killed, abandoned, starving, crazy with terror and fear palestinian all-gender people and their children nor is there . . .
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June 21, 2024 - By SABINE BROECK
Willy-Brandt-Platz, Frankfurt, 03.02.2024. Banner reads: “Stop the criminalisation of Palestinian resistance and solidarity” Attribution: conceptphoto.info, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Vogliamo Tutto Since I wrote “Staatsraison: Dispatch From Germany” six months ago, Germany has seen an avalanche of staatsraison attacks, supported across the political spectrum. These attacks have often been mobilized and . . .
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June 14, 2024 - By Kerry Sinanan
Photo: Free Derry/ Palestine (crop), by Ktoma. CC BY-SA 3.0 When the Tree rises up, the branchesShall flourish green and fresh in the sunThe laughter of the Tree shall leafBeneath the sunAnd birds shall returnUndoubtedly, the birds shall return. —Fadwa Tuqan, from “The Deluge and the Tree” The very title of Adam . . .
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May 31, 2024 - By Haya Abu Nasser
I met Haya Abu Nasser in January 2024 under the auspices of We Are Not Numbers, a youth-led literary mentorship program founded in Gaza in 2015. We Are Not Numbers, or WANN as it is called by its members, pairs young Palestinians who are writing in English with international mentors. The goal is . . .
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May 24, 2024 - By Christian Appy and UMass Faculty for Justice in Palestine
(Repressive State Apparatus in action 5/7/2024, FJP photo) I have been a history professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst for twenty years. On May 7, I was one of a handful of faculty members arrested for standing in support of hundreds of students who were engaged in nonviolent protest of university . . .
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May 17, 2024 - by Farah-Silvana Kanaan
(Photo by Victorgrigas – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0) (An earlier version of this essay, titled “They tried to kill the truth, but it came back stronger” was published in Issue 4 (Spring 2024) of the print magazine, Discontent.) 1. Every time I’ve opened this document to continue writing, I’ve had to turn . . .
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May 16, 2024 - by Jewish Voice for Peace Academic Advisory Council
As Jewish academics, researchers, and higher education professionals, we are appalled by, and refuse to accept, the deliberate mischaracterization, and weaponization of persisting fears about Jewish safety and well-being on campuses across the United States as the singular excuse for a series of misguided and dangerous policies by university administrators. These include . . .
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May 10, 2024 - by UMass Amherst Chapter of Faculty for Justice in Palestine
Drawing by Grant Hoskins, published with permission from the artist Students Called for Divestment from Weapons Manufacturers as State Police Entered Campus AMHERST, MASS.—Over 130 students, faculty, and community members were arrested by state police on the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus on Tuesday evening and into the early hours of Wednesday . . .
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