IMEU Institute for Middle East Understanding
“I think starting a business here is in itself a political act,” says Christina Ganim. In 2015, Ganim co-founded the Ramallah-based lingerie company, Kenz Woman, with Nicola Isabel. “We could both be in the States or anywhere else doing this, but we chose to do it here, because we want to contribute"...
on September 14, 2016
An independent investigation has vindicated a pro-Palestinian group charged with fostering an anti-Semitic climate at the nation’s largest urban public university. Two lawyers hired by the City University of New York to investigate alleged instances of anti-Semitism...
on September 13, 2016
In recent months, a number of states have passed laws or taken other official actions to punish companies that participate in boycotts against Israel. California soon may do the same. But if it does, it will be making a mistake. You don’t have to support the so-called Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement to be troubled when state governments in this country penalize...
on July 5, 2016
Iraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has recently been trying to mend some fences in Washington — particularly with liberal Democrats. Speaking at the progressive Center for American Progress last month, he put it bluntly: “It's vital to understand how important it is for me that Israel remain an issue of bipartisan consensus in the United States.”
on December 16, 2015
Earlier this week, I painted a section of the Israeli apartheid wall near Qalandiya checkpoint in the occupied West Bank with the colors of the rainbow flag. Later that night, some people from the community painted it over.
on July 2, 2015
Brittany Packnett was sitting anxiously in the Oval Office last month when she decided to disregard friends' advice and tell Barack Obama about her first taste of tear gas. It came on a street in Ferguson, Mo., as she stood next to a petrified eighth-grader. '
on January 21, 2015
In the weeks leading up to the American Studies Association (ASA) annual conference, erroneous reports have alleged that the ASA intends to bar Israeli academics from participating at our upcoming annual conference in Los Angeles in November. A recent commentary in U-T San Diego by Michael M. Rosen said the same, claiming the ASA will “lock the doors” of the conference to Israelis. This allegation is absurd.
on October 29, 2014
Hanan Al-Khatib, lawyer for prisoner affairs committee reports that there are at least 17 female prisoners in Israeli prisons, treated in the worst possible way. The prisoners are banned from seeing their families, not given appropriate medical treatment, not given their rights in courts; a policy to keep them form protesting their imprisonment conditions.
on October 29, 2014
Israeli settlers constructed two setltement units in less than a month on Yanun village, South East Nablus, and seized hundreds of acres to connect the two. Ghassan Daghlas, in charge of Israeli Settlements File at the Palestinian Authority in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, told Wafa news agency that the settlers have constructed two units as a start for the settlements in the areas of Al-Dawa south Yanun, connecting it to another north east Yanun.
on October 21, 2014