"Columbia's capitulation has turned a university that was once a site of free inquiry and learning into a shadow of its former self, an anti-university, a gated security zone with electronic entry controls,” writes Professor Rashid Khalidi.
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I Spent Decades at Columbia. I’m Withdrawing my Fall Course Due to Its Deal With Trump
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Gaza’s high school students prepare for final exams by candlelight from shelters, under bombardment, grief, and blackout. Others shoulder family burdens after loss. For many, education is not just learning. It is survival. Suha Sami’s full report:
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Tawjihi in Gaza: The High School Exam That Hangs over the Rubble
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Join us tomorrow for an emergency webinar: Israel’s Famine in Gaza: What the World Must Know [@yara_m_asi](
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 ) & Bushra Khalidi will discuss the scale, causes, and long-term impact of Israel’s man-made famine in Gaza. 🗓 Wednesday, July 30 🕑 2:00 PM EST 🔗 https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_srTn2pGfTTq0bOjiG01W6w#/registration image
In Gaza, even language is weaponized. Israeli soldiers leave behind graffiti that degrades, mocks, and haunts. Donya Abu Sitta reflects on how words, like bombs, can wound and occupy the ruins of homes and minds. 🔗
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Graffiti of Control
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When the classroom is a tent and the dream is survival. In Gaza, students study by flashlight, under bombs, and through grief. This powerful essay by @Taqwa Ahmed AL-Wawi honors their defiance and asks: how do you dream when your school no longer exists? ⬇️
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When the Classroom Is a Tent and the Dream Is Survival
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Alaa went to get flour for his family. He came back wrapped in empty flour bags—shot dead by Israeli forces. In this heartbreaking essay, his sister Areej Almashharawi writes about famine, survival, and the cruelty of engineered hunger in Gaza. 🔗
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Gaza: Pursuit of Survival
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Recognition without rights is not justice. As Western governments symbolically “recognize” Palestine, this essay by Jwan Zreiq asks: what is being recognized, and at whose expense? 🔗
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The Politics of Recognition and the Erasure of Palestine: How the West Uses Recognition to Manage Palestine and Demand Israel’s Legitimacy
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🧵A new Highlight from #PalQuest explores the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism—its historical development, adoption, implementation, and the critiques it has provoked—emphasizing its role in delegitimizing criticism of the State of Israel:
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The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism
Highlight - Delegitimizing Criticism of Israel - After the June 1967 War , the relationship between speech or conduct targeting the State of Israe...