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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
- Nicolò Machiavelli
By Mary Rizzo* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Obama, before he actually "did" anything, had a reputation. And, [...]
By Yousef Munayyer* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
'TO CUT down on gang-related crimes, policies could be put in place to curb the African-American population growth in places like Harlem and Compton. The government could consider cutting off welfare benefits for families in these urban areas to discourage births of blacks and cut down the supply [...]
By Mohamed Khodr* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
"Right and wrong are the same in Palestine as anywhere else. What is peculiar about the Palestine conflict is that the world has listened to the party that has committed the offence and has turned a deaf ear to the victims."
–Prof. Arnold Toynbee, Foreword to the Transformation of [...]
By Nora Barrows-Friedman* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
In 2009, Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, became the first American higher educational institution to successfully pressure its Board of Trustees to divest from Israel-tied mutual funds. The victory came three decades after the college similarly disinvested from funds linked to apartheid South Africa. Across North America, student-led [...]
Masafer Yatta/South Hebron Hills – On Sunday, 20 December 2009, the Israeli army disrupted transportation of children and teachers from Al-Fakheit school to their homes. The Palestinian driver, accompanied by one CPTer, was on his way to pick up children and teachers after school when, at about 1:00 p.m. soldiers in a Humvee stopped the [...]
Tagged Bus, Children, Education, Hebron, Israeli, Kids, Palestine, palestinian, School, Terrorism, ZionistA dose of their own (academic) medicine might help the message sink in
By Stuart Littlewood* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Poor Berlanty. What did she do to deserve this crushing blow to her hopes and life chances?
The Israeli High Court has denied her justice – again – and prevented Berlanty Azzam returning to Bethlehem University for [...]
By David Green* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Chancellor Richard Herman of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign recently resigned due to his cooperation with political influence-peddlers seeking to gain admission for less qualified but privileged applicants. But Herman also participated in a more acceptable form of political corruption — publicly displayed with the invocation of [...]
By Paul J. Balles* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Paul J. Balles views the twisted logic and demeaning tone of American Zionists who casually falsify history and dismiss the rights of the Palestinian people in defence of Israel.
Several days ago (9 November 2009), David Harris, Executive Director of the American Jewish Committee, wrote an article for [...]
How the "Most Moral Army in the World" Wages War on Students (Part 1)
By Stuart Littlewood *
The Israeli embassy in London has finally made its excuses for the "senseless outrage" of preventing Berlanty Azzam, a fourth-year student of Bethlehem University, from continuing her studies and robbing her of her degree. She was arrested at an [...]
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"Right and wrong are the same in Palestine as anywhere else. What is peculiar about the Palestine conflict is that the world has listened to the party that has committed the offence and has turned a deaf ear to the victims."
–Famed British Historian Professor Arnold Toynbee
"In the name of justice there cannot be [...]
By Stuart Littlewood *
If there's one thing the Israelis are good at it's making war on women and children.
They killed 952 Palestinian kiddies in their homeland between 2000 and the start of the Gaza blitzkrieg in December 2008 (according to B'Tselem statistics). They murdered at least 350 more during their Cast Lead onslaught and have [...]
By Catherine Rottenberg and Neve Gordon*
Educating children in a conflict zone is no simple matter. More often than not, those responsible for the curricula succumb to the masters of war and adopt a pedagogical approach that exacerbates rather than diffuses strife. Israel, unfortunately, is no exception.
Consider the way Jewish and Palestinian children are educated. Segregation [...]
From theatre in a Bethlehem refugee camp to the Venice biennale, Palestinians are making art out of adversity – and doing it with grace, finds Ahdaf Soueif, organiser of the Palestine festival of literature
Leaning against padded walls in a darkened room we eavesdrop on an argument: "the elite think they can get independence without resistance [...]
The Israeli government has moved quickly to quash protests over the appointment of the army's senior adviser on international law to a teaching post at Tel Aviv University. Col Pnina Sharvit-Baruch is thought to have provided legal cover for war crimes during the recent Gaza offensive.
Government officials fear that recent media revelations relating to Col [...]
Quebec university profs & workers demand an academic boycott of Israel:
We are a group of teachers and employees at Quebec colleges and universities who stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people, and with the people of Gaza who have suffered through the Israeli siege as targets of Israel’s brutal military attack. It will take more [...]
