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An exceptional Bisan Lecture webinar on March 19th – Gaza: A Litmus Test for International Law and the Responsibility of the International Community

Join us for the next webinar of the Bisan Lecture Series, on Tuesday March 19th at 8.30 PM Palestine time (notice the unusual time and date, and the different time difference between US and Palestine due to daylight saving time). You can register here!

7:30 PM Paris & Tunis
6:30 PM London
2:30 PM Boston
11:30 AM San Francisco

An Israeli historian’s testimony of the horrible situation in the Gaza Strip

I, Lee Mordechai, a historian and an Israeli citizen, testify in this document, as events are unfolding, to the horrible situation in the Gaza Strip. I write my personal opinion out of a sense of double responsibility: as a citizen whose country is committing what I consider as grave crimes, and as an academic, who believes that after having dedicated my career to research I am obliged to speak up against injustice, especially when it is so close. I write also because of the disappointing general silence on this issue among many international and Israeli academic institutions, especially those that are well-positioned to comment on it. The relatively few of my colleagues who have bravely spoken out have been an inspiration.1 I do not believe this document will convince many others to change their minds. Rather, I write this publicly to testify that during the war there were and remain Israeli voices who strongly dissented from Israel’s actions.

Defending our students committed to Palestine

As teachers, doctoral students, researchers and faculty members at Sciences Po and other universities, we express our full support for students that participated in the occupation organised the morning of Tuesday 12th March, in response to the call of the Academic Coordination Against Colonization in Palestine (ACACP)to organise a day of academic support for the Palestinian people.