NOVANEWS Submitted by Ali Abunimah 140913 lia koenig Eight activists were arrested after they disrupted a theater performance sponsored by the Israeli embassy in Amsterdam in protest of Israel’s recent assault on the Gaza Strip. A ninth activist […]
NOVANEWS Submitted by Ali Abunimah University of Illinois President Robert Easter The board of trustees of the University of Illinois voted today to reject the appointment of Steven Salaita as dozens of student and faculty supporters of […]
NOVANEWS By Jane Cutter Students demonstrate to reinstate Steve Salaita Supporters of Palestinian rights have for many years faced repression on college campuses. This is not surprising—while the United States postures as a bastion of democracy, […]
NOVANEWS September 11, 2014, Urbana-Champaign, IL – Prof. Steven Salaita and his attorneys responded today to the announcement that the Board of Trustees voted to terminate him from a tenured position at the University of Illinois […]
NOVANEWS Nazi Holocaust in Gaza (Prefatory Note: Earlier today I published a post dealing with the case of Steven Salaita, and its bearing on the misuse of civility as a tactic by Zionist forces to […]
NOVANEWS by Richard Falk I have been following the controversy swirling around the dehiring of Steven Salaita by unilateral fiat of the Chancellor of the Urbana Champaign campus of the University of Illinois, Phyllis Wise. […]
NOVANEWS * Rabbi Ira Youdovin An Open Letter to Rabbi Ira Youdovin: We have exchanged views frequently in the last few years, most often by way of adversary comments written in reaction to posts published […]
NOVANEWS Much fanfare has been made out of the life-saving treatment received by Malala Yousafzai at a Birmingham hospital – and rightly so. But as the Library of Birmingham celebrates its first anniversary by hosting […]
NOVANEWS By Dominic Gover | IB Times Orthodox Jewish pro-Palestinian demonstrators march through central London to call … A Jewish man has been hounded out of his home in an Orthodox community by a campaign of hate after condemning violence […]
NOVANEWS Reconstructionist leader says he’s a ‘lightning rod’ for division in community because of his pro-Palestinian stance. Rabbi Brant Rosen (photo credit: Brant Rosen/Facebook) A prominent rabbi whose outspoken criticism of the Nazi regime became […]