Forum: When the Power Goes Out
The visit this week of former Israeli U.N. Ambassador Ron Prosor to the Slifka Center at Yale is a good time to reflect on Israel’s management of its relationship with Gaza since it “ended...
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A Tale of Two Strikes
Many New Haveners are well aware of the recently concluded hunger strike waged by graduate student teachers on Beinecke Plaza. Theirs is a fight for decent, secure wages and comprehensive benefits. In spite of...
Forum: Hunger strikes, hunger deaths
The hunger strike of Local 33 at Yale makes me think about a much larger hunger strike going inside the prisons of Israel. A few weeks ago Omar Barghouti’s Gandhi Peace Award acceptance speech...
“When the human rights abuses end, BDS will end”
Having just this month bicycled the length of the West Bank in Palestine from Jenin in the north to Hebron in the south, I feel no need to play “they say, I say” with...
“Why I Support BDS”
Published in the New Haven Register April 30, 2017 The Israeli government’s policies towards Palestinians, and the behavior of some Israeli settlers, do not reflect the Jewish moral code by which I was raised....
Omar Barghouti, Welcome to New Haven
Omar Barghouti was in New Haven last week to receive the Gandhi Peace Prize from a local organization, Promoting Enduring Peace. The award was presented in a Yale building, but Yale quickly declared that...
Dancing Under Occupation
Approximately 750,000 Palestinians were displaced and became refugees as a result of the 1948 war which led to the founding of Israel. None of these displaced persons were ever allowed to return to the...
Defend Your Right of Free Speech
Please contact our senators to let them know that you do not approve of the U.S. Congress legislating away your first amendment right of free speech. Do not pass bill S.170. Richard Blumenthal (860)...
Tell the Truth About Israel and Palestine Too…
For nearly 50 years, Israel has occupied the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. Occupiers have very specific responsibilities under international law: Their presence should be brief and solely for the benefit of the...
Children of the Stone/ DAL’OUNA ENSEMBLE Concert & Book Tour
September 21 – 30, 2016 featuring Palestinian musician/composer Ramzi Aburedwan & DAL’OUNA ENSEMBLE with vocalist Nidal Ibourk, violinist Michael Dabroski, and author/journalist Sandy Tolan The U.S. Premiere Children of the Stone/DAL’OUNA concert and book tour, celebrates Palestinian musician...