Posted on September 8, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
so i have been getting settled in amman. i have moved yet again. hopefully this will be the last time for a while. it was a very difficult decision for me to leave palestine, though it is one i made some time ago. ultimately, one of my prime motivations for leaving the u.s. was not [...]
Filed under: Academic Freedom, Apartheid, Borderlands, Colonialism, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Jordan, Militarization, Occupation, Palestine, Racism, U.S. Foreign Policy, Universities, Zionism | Tagged: Al Jazeera, allenby bridge, amman, arab american university, ben gurion airport, Bethlehem University, birzeit university, Canada, chronicle of higher education, connecticut, east jerusalem, gaza strip, graham stott, hanadi abu-taha, harlem, irish, Jenin, Knesset, malak hussein bridge, manhattan, Mashantucket Pequot reservation, matthew kalman, Oslo, palestine chronicle, Palestinian Authority, qalandia, Ramallah, right to enter campaign, salwa duaibis, sherine tadros, taba, the faster times, toufic haddad, West Bank, yaffa | 2 Comments »
Posted on August 26, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
the whole point of the academic boycott of “israel” is that palestinians have no rights to education (not to mention the right of palestinian refugees to return to their land among a whole host of other daily violations they endure every day). but critics of the academic boycott always love to shout how much more [...]
Filed under: Academic Freedom, Apartheid, Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions, Colonialism, Human Rights, Justice, Militarization, Occupation, Palestine, Refugees, U.S. Foreign Policy, Universities, Zionism | Tagged: bds, ben gurion university, david ben-gurion, ezra nawi, gideon sa'ar, jewish, jewish voice for peace, Los Angeles, los angeles times, muzzle watch, neve gordon, richard silverstein, rivka carmi, yaakov dayan | 11 Comments »
Posted on August 13, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
last week i was at ucsb (university of california at santa barbara) and there was a protest against the california budget cuts affecting education in the state. one of my favorite scholars, lisa hajjar, a professor at ucsb, and author of courting conflict, explains some of these issues here in this short clip from a [...]
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Posted on May 4, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
friday morning a friend of mine had to make a delivery to nablus for work and offered to drive me down to beit lahem afterward so i decided to go back with him. my friend who i went to visit is a graduate student at al quds university in the european studies program. she [...]
Filed under: Academic Freedom, Apartheid, Colonialism, Economy, Gaza, Imperialism, Literature, Militarization, Occupation, Pakistan, Palestine, Resistance, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Policy, Universities, Zionism, teaching | Tagged: Germany, Gaza, Norman Finkelstein, Ward Churchill, Ilan Pappe, Al Quds University, Al Quds, South Africa, terrorism, Flashpoints, Beit Lahem, ethnic cleansing, Dennis Bernstein, martin luther king, Canada, anti-Semitism, european union, tariq ali, nazi germany, latin america, montreal, church of the nativity, british, israeli terrorists, sari nusseibeh, colombia, european studies, munther dajani, herzliya, aharon yair mcclanahan, pisgat ze'ev, tal sadeh, mohammad dura, mohammad al durra, paolo freire, pedagogy of the oppressed, mcgill university, freire project, peter mclaren, christopher stonebanks, william robinson, ucsb, university of california santa barbara, santa barbara | Leave a Comment »
Posted on April 3, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
i haven’t been following ward churchill’s trial as closely as i would have liked to, but i am so happy to know that justice was finally served in the case of churchill v. colorado university. there were a few issues at stake in the trial, but one of the most significant ones was in [...]
Filed under: Academic Freedom, Afghanistan, Economy, Environment, Hillary Clinton, Human Rights, Imperialism, Indigenous, Iraq, Justice, Media, Militarization, Obama, Occupation, Pakistan, Racism, Resistance, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Policy, Universities | Tagged: 9/11, agusto pinochet, amy goodman, baghdad, Blackwater, capitalism, Chile, cholera, colorado, colorado university, craig silverman, crimes against humanity, cyncorp, david lane, david satterfield, Democracy Now!, el salvador, erik leaver, fascism, George Bush, Jeremy Scahill, john f. kennedy, jose miguel pizarro ovalle, KBR, little eichmanns, malcolm x, max forte, new american century, new york, open anthropology, pentagon, triple canopy, us army, Wall Street, Ward Churchill, water, world bank, world trade center | 2 Comments »
Posted on April 2, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
there are so many fronts on which to fight american zionists even within american universities. for instance, angry arab reported some of the backlash american professors active in the academic boycott of israel have been targeted of late:
A colleague, Lara, sent me this (I cite with her permission): “A friend of mine who signed onto [...]
Filed under: Academic Freedom, Apartheid, Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions, Colonialism, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Militarization, Occupation, Palestine, Racism, U.S. Foreign Policy, Universities, Zionism | Tagged: Al Quds, angry arab, antisemitism, arab american, As'ad AbuKhalil, atlanta, auschwitz, bobigny, california, discrimination, donna rosenthal, education abroad program, Fourth Geneva Convention, haifa university, Hebrew University, israeli consulate, jerusalem, kathleen moore, kristallnacht, michael cowan, muslim american, nazi, Palestinian Authority, paris, seine-saint denis, shimon samuels, simon wiesenthal, simon wiesenthal centre, sondra hale, university of california, West Bank | 1 Comment »
Posted on March 31, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
in honor of يوم الأرض (land day) and the palestinian national boycott movement’s call for land day to be global bds day the campaign has finally be launched in lebanon here is the article that rania and i wrote in al akhbar today explaining our bayan, which you will find below:
في يوم الأرض… فلنقف مع [...]
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Posted on March 25, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
this is a bit overdue, but joel kovel, who i have written about previously, has been fired from bard college because he actively works to resist zionism and its stranglehold on the american academy, media, etc. ironically, that same thing that he wages against is the very thing that got him terminated. below is a [...]
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Posted on February 22, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
you knew it was coming. it’s always sort of present for people in north america but i feel that it would be less so if more people were braver about speaking out. if more people were willing to take risks in their personal lives to help others who cannot in the same way. it is [...]
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Posted on February 17, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
note: below is an article that i wrote with my colleague at the isalmic university of gaza. at the bottom of the email are details about how you can help financially and within the article are ways you can help in other ways.
Akram Habeeb and Marcy Newman, The Electronic Intifada, 16 February 2009
Since Israel’s [...]
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