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UC Berkeley Vote: A travesty of the “Democratic” process

by Debbie Menon May 2, 2010

By Debbie Menon* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Disappointing, but this shows the immense power that “the Organization” has to overturn popular demand against amazing majority numbers in the face of all reason and “democratic” principle. And, it also illustrates the cupidity, weakness, and failures of moral principles of elected representatives worldwide to stand up [...]

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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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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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Uphill battle for academic freedom in US universities

by SR Editor January 15, 2010

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, [...]

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Propaganda disguised as academic inquiry at the University of Illinois

by SR Editor December 6, 2009

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 [...]

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A thorn in the world’s side

by SR Editor November 16, 2009

Israel in midst of freefall on global front, yet we’re preoccupied with nonsense By Sever Plocker | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz I’ve been invited to deliver a lecture about Israel’s economy and society at Oxford University. As it is a short lecture, and a respectable forum, I gladly accepted the offer. The invitation was extended [...]

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SIGN PETITION: A Plea to Norway’s University of Trondheim to Boycott Israel

by SR Editor November 3, 2009

SIGN THE PETITION: http://www.petitiononline.com/boycott9/petition.html “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 [...]

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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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Jonathan Cook – Israeli University Welcomes “War Crimes” Colonel

by Jonathan Cook February 13, 2009

By Jonathan Cook * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz 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. [...]

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Matthew Taylor – Historical Meaning of The Palestinian Flag

by Haitham Sabbah December 7, 2008

By Matthew Taylor Political Zionism-the quest to establish and hold a Jewish-majority state within historic Palestine-has largely been predicated on the belief that Palestinians should not have the right to live on their ancestral lands. In 1948, Israel’s founders carried this philosophy to its logical conclusion and used military force to drive more than 700,000 [...]

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UK trade union backs total boycott of Israel

by Haitham Sabbah June 21, 2007

The UK’s largest trade union, UNISON, advocated on Wednesday a total boycott of Israel over its continued occupation of Palestinian territories. A statement issued by delegates meeting in Brighton read: “The conference believes that ending the occupation demands concerted and sustained pressure upon Israel including an economic, cultural, academic and sporting boycott”. In addition, delegates [...]

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