Clashes at Nakba Annual Memorial Ceremony in Tel Aviv University

Under heavy police presence, Hadash and Arab students hold, Wednesday, May 14, the annual Nakba memorial ceremony at Tel Aviv University’s Entin Square, as right-wing counter-protesters attempt to disrupt the rally with loud music and taunts from behind a police barricade. Hadash members of Knesset Aida Touma-Sliman, Ofer Cassif and Youssef Atawneh and Communist Party…

After Protests, University Lifts Suspension on Lecturer Who Criticized War and Occupation

After five days of protests, Ben-Gurion University decided Tuesday, March 11, to lift the suspension of Dr. Sebastian Ben-Daniel. The southern Israeli university suspended the lecturer and announced that it has suspended Ben Daniel “indefinitely” following a series of online statements criticizing the war in Gaza and the occupation of the Palestinian territories on an…

Israeli Academics Face McCarthyistic Campaign

The Israel Police are weighing whether to open an investigation against Tel Aviv University Dr. Anat Matar, a leading member of Academia for Equality. saying her online eulogizing on Tuesday, April 9, the late Palestinian prisoner Walid Daka may constitute “support of and incitement to terror.” Matar, a senior lecturer in the Department of Philosophy,…

With the Suspension of Prof. Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Israeli Academia is Entering the Abyss

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, suspended Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian on Tuesday, March 12, for denouncing Israel’s deadly war in Gaza during an interview. Shalhoub-Kevorkian had been under pressure to resign from the university since late October, when she signed a call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. “Since the war began, Prof. Shalhoub-Kevorkian has expressed herself in a…

Nakba Day Event at Tel Aviv University

Hundreds of protesters carrying Palestinian flags held the Nakba Day rally at Tel Aviv University on Monday. Communist Party of Israel Secretary General Adel Amer and Hadash MK Ofer Cassif took part in the rally as well. The large crowd of Arab students and Jewish supporters, among them dozens of lecturers, waved Palestinian flags and…

University Cancels Disciplinary Proceedings Against Hadash Student

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev canceled on Wednesday the disciplinary proceedings against Watan Madi, a student and leading Hadash activist, for using the word “shahid’ (martyr) during a ceremony last May marking the Nakba Day. The University’s academic secretariat further explained that holding a new procedure would lead to “unreasonable delay of justice”, therefore the…