IMEU Institute for Middle East Understanding
News Roundup
Pitzer College faculty have voted to suspend a study abroad program in Israel, sparking widespread controversy over what is believed to be the nation’s first such campus action in support of Palestinian rights.
on December 12, 2018
Stories
It was about 5:00 a.m. in Gaza when Nour Al-Shaer got the news. With nervousness, she logged online to check the scholarship results – and learned she’d earned a 100% scholarship to Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.
on December 11, 2018
News Roundup
Students for Justice in Palestine, the biggest pro-Palestinian student movement in the country, is holding its annual conference this weekend. It will convene from November 16-18 on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles.
on December 3, 2018
Op-Eds & Analysis
Users send letters to Los Angeles Times editors on responses to crackdown of the National Students for Justice in Palestine conference at UCLA.
on December 3, 2018
News Roundup
The National Students for Justice in Palestine were given a cease and desist letter from UCLA for its artwork promoting a national conference being held here.
on November 14, 2018
News Roundup
The University of California, Los Angeles, asked a student Palestinian-rights group to remove UCLA's name and references to the university's Bruin Bear mascot from its promotional materials. The students are pushing back.
on November 14, 2018
News Roundup
Ahmad Aburas was sitting in class one evening in September 2016 when a security officer at Seton Hall Law School, the New Jersey school that Aburas attends, came to get him.
on June 25, 2018
News Roundup
Hiba Anis Mustafa Shurafa guides students in her Gaza classroom, instructing them on the art of how to hold a pen and keep a steady hand when writing out letters. She understands the task is challenging because, like her students, Shurafa has Down syndrome.
on November 30, 2016
Op-Eds & Analysis
As an African American student activist, my decision to join UCLA’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) was an instinctive choice. I believe that all struggles against injustice are connected; our oppression may not be identical, but we are targeted by the same structures of power. I see parallels between unarmed Palestinians protesting the Israeli government’s discriminatory policies and unarmed Black Americans in Ferguson, Baltimore and Charlotte protesting police violence and inequality.
on November 17, 2016