Students

9/11 ANALYSIS: From Ronald Reagan and the Soviet-Afghan War to George W Bush and September 11, 2001

by Michel Chossudovsky September 10, 2010

By Michel Chossudovsky* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz This article summarizes earlier writings by the author on 9/11 and the role of Al Qaeda in US foreign policy. For further details see Michel Chossudovsky, America’s “War on Terrorism”, Global Research, 2005 “The United States spent millions of dollars to supply Afghan schoolchildren with textbooks filled [...]

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Richard Falk Salute UC Berkeley Divestment

by Richard Falk April 14, 2010

April 13, 2010 To the Senate of the Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley (ASUC): I am writing to encourage renewed support for Senate Bill 118A (“A Bill in Support of ASUC Divestment from War Crimes”), including the override of ASUC President Will Smelko’s veto on March 24, 2010. The earlier passage of [...]

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu to UC Berkeley: Divesting is the Right Thing To Do

by Haitham Sabbah April 11, 2010

Sent from Emily Schaeffer, human right lawyer in Israel/Palestine, who asked Archbishop Tutu to write the letter. Dear Student Leaders at the University of California – Berkeley It was with great joy that I learned of your recent 16-4 vote in support of divesting your university’s money from companies that enable and profit from the [...]

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An Open Letter to Margaret Atwood from Gaza: Don’t Stand on the Wrong Side of History

by Haitham Sabbah April 6, 2010

Besieged Gaza, Palestine April.4.2010 Dear Ms. Atwood, We are students from Gaza representing more than 10 academic institutions therein. Our grandparents are refugees who were expelled from their homes in the 1948 Nakba. They still have their keys locked up in their closets and will pass them on to their children, our parents. Many of [...]

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How the “Most Moral Army in the World” Wages War on Students

by Stuart Littlewood November 1, 2009

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 [...]

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Narratives Under Siege: Gaza’s 700 Stranded Students

by Haitham Sabbah June 7, 2008

Hadeel Abu Kwaik is one of 7 students whose Fulbright scholarships were recently withdrawn, then swiftly reinstated by the US State Dept. But almost 700 other students remain stranded in Gaza Few days ago, on 1 June, Hadeel Abu Kwaik was sitting in her computer lab at Al-Azhar University in Gaza looking worried, and perplexed. [...]

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