Concerned academics

May 1, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Ramzy Baroud |Binoy Kampmark |Don Fitz |Concerned academics

The mass protests at dozens of US universities cannot be reduced to a stifling and misleading conversation about antisemitism. Thousands of American students across the country are not protesting, risking their own futures and very safety, because of some pathological hate for the Jewish people. They are doing so in a complete rejection of, and justifiable outrage over the mass killing carried out by the state of Israel against defenseless Palestinians in Gaza.

Apr 30, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Rebecca Gordon |Andre Damon |Aviral Anand |Concerned academics

He’s a funny little chap: a sharp dresser with a sleek grey jacket, a white waistcoat, red shorts, and a small grey crest for a hat. With his shiny black eyes and stubby black beak, he’s quite the looker. Like the chihuahua of the bird world, the tufted titmouse has no idea he’s tiny. He swaggers right up to the feeder, shouldering bigger birds out of the way. A few weeks ago, I wouldn’t have known a tufted titmouse from a downy woodpecker.

Apr 29, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Darren Byler |Simon FRASER |Concerned academics |Michael Smith |Michaël Smith

We, the undersigned, stand in solidarity with members of the Columbia University community demanding that the University divest from Israel’s US-backed genocide in Gaza and the West Bank. We write to announce our initiation of an academic and cultural boycott of Columbia University and Barnard College. Israel has undertaken a systematic campaign to destroy the Palestinian education system.

Apr 28, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Marwan Asmar |Chris Hedges |VladislavB Sotirovic |Concerned academics

The Jewish  daily based on senior sources says Benjamin Netanyahu is deeply worried the ICC is on the verge of issuing a warrant for his arrest and other senior politicians in his government. Amid reports that the Israeli government is worried about the ICC issuing an arrest warrant against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top officials, the Israeli premier had issued a belligerent message slamming the ICC. Here's the story.

Apr 28, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Chris Hedges |VladislavB Sotirovic |Concerned academics |Binoy Kampmark

This is a sermon I gave Sunday April 28 at a service held at the encampment for Gaza at Princeton University. The service was organized by students from Princeton Theological Seminary. In the conflicts I covered as a reporter in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans, I encountered singular individuals of varying creeds, religions, races and nationalities who majestically rose up to defy the oppressor on behalf of the oppressed. Some of them are dead. Some of them are forgotten.