IMEU Institute for Middle East Understanding
Q&As;
The IMEU offers the following Q&A; with co-founder of the Palestinian civil society Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, Omar Barghouti, on recent developments involving BDS and the BDS National Committee's goals for the future.
about 2 days ago
News Roundup
Real Madrid made a young fan's dream come true this week when they flew Ahmad Dawabsha, a Palestinian orphan, to the Santiago Bernabeu for an extensive tour. The five-year-old was the only survivor of an attack in the West Bank last year that killed his parents and brother.
about 4 days ago
News Roundup
hen Hanan al-Hroub returns to her classroom after a week’s absence on Sunday, her arms full of puppets, socks, wooden clothes pegs, toy cars and a clown’s wig, she will be additionally weighed down with a trophy inscribed with her name as this year’s winner of the $1m Global Teacher prize.
about 5 days ago
News Roundup
On March 17, community members, artists and art lovers gathered at Al Hoash* gallery to attend the exhibition opening of A Black Hole in the Sun. The exhibition, supported by Swiss Development Cooperation and the Danish Center for Culture and Development, featured a collection of art works from different stages of the life of the internationally renowned Palestinian artist, Ibrahim Noubani.
about 5 days ago
Op-Eds & Analysis
Here's a good one for you. On Tuesday, the L.A. Times broke a story describing how the UC Regents, those in charge of the University of California system, are proposing to denote "anti-Zionism" as an unacceptable form of discrimination on its campuses. As you would probably expect, the proposed amendment has incited an absurd amount of strong opinions from every direction.
about 6 days ago
News Roundup
It came as no surprise this week when New York’s Senate backed Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposal to cut state funding to the City University of New York. Few in Albany were prepared, however, when the Senate, in its own budget proposal, criticized CUNY’s handling of alleged anti-Semitism.
about 6 days ago
News Roundup
Defense for Chilldren International-P (DCIP), the only Palestinian organization specifically dedicated to the rights of children, has launched a new campaign called "No Way to Treat a Child." The campaign "is committed to securing a just and viable future for Palestinian children living in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and envisions a world where all children attain rights in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and other international standards,"...
about 6 days ago
News Roundup
The governing board of California's flagship public university system is to vote next week on a statement condemning anti-Zionism as a form of anti-Jewish bigotry, a proposal sparking sharp faculty debate over the line between free speech and intolerance.
about 6 days ago
News Roundup
For almost a year, the University of California has been struggling to address complaints that campus protests against Israel have crossed the line into harassment of Jewish students, but to respond in a way that wouldn't undermine the university's commitment to free speech.
about 1 week ago