IMEU Institute for Middle East Understanding
Since 2010, Unite Lebanon Youth Project (ULYP) has been working on the front lines in refugee camps across Lebanon -- the country with the highest per capita concentration of refugees in the world -- to empower young Palestinians, among others, through a comprehensive set of programs that focuses on education, opportunity, and stability.
on April 18, 2016
Haneen's friends haven't left her side since Sunday, when she walked to a campus building and saw posters taped to the walls and strewn across the sidewalk, calling the Indianapolis college student a terrorist. The Muslim woman's friends have escorted her to all of her classes at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, but still she looks over her shoulders as she walks across the campus...
on April 8, 2016
The noise signaled that Hanan Hroub’s second-grade students were not focusing on their assigned task of scrawling math problems on balloons. Instead, they were staring at the latest interloper, a tall German journalist, treading through their classroom to meet their “Miss,” as Palestinians call teachers, who recently won a $1 million global education prize.
on April 1, 2016
The Israel-Palestine conflict, never absent from most U.S. college campuses, is fueling especially passionate debate in central Ohio this spring. Much of the argument centers on the nationwide “Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions” movement, which aims to punish Israel economically as a way to pressure it to change its treatment of Palestinians. In recent years, the movement has attracted powerful pushback from pro-Israel organizations.
on March 29, 2016
Next week the 2016 Right to Education (R2E) tour will arrive in the United States. During the first two weeks in April, students from universities across Palestine will be speaking at American university campuses about their experiences studying under Israeli occupation and the impact of colonialism on their education; the theme of this year’s Right to Education tour.
on March 29, 2016
In the heart of the old city of Hebron - amid checkpoints, razor-wire fences, military watchtowers and Israeli soldiers - al-Ibrahimiya kindergarten, run by 53-year-old Zleikha Muhtaseb, provides a safe haven for Palestinian children. "I decided to create this space for them just to be kids, because outside the kindergarten, they are not treated very well," Muhtaseb, who grew up in Hebron, told Al Jazeera.
on March 25, 2016
The regents of the University of California unanimously adopted a new policy on discrimination on Wednesday that links anti-Semitism to opposition to Zionism, the ideology asserting that the Jewish people have a right to a nation-state in historic Palestine.
on March 23, 2016
A fierce debate over free speech, academic openness and anti-Jewish sentiment will come to a head on Wednesday when UC regents consider an apparently unprecedented policy statement classifying anti-Zionism -- a viewpoint opposing the existence of a Jewish state -- as a form of bigotry.
on March 23, 2016
University of California regents said Wednesday that anti-Semitism has "no place" on a college campus but declined to endorse a sweeping statement that would have condemned anti-Zionism as a form of discrimination. Instead, the regents unanimously approved a report that decried “anti-Semitic forms” of the political ideology, which challenges Israel’s right to exist on land claimed by Palestinians.
on March 23, 2016