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Check out the new section on Palantir!
This is part one of a two-part book launch.
The diverse pieces in this anthology explore research and experiences at the intersection of Palestine and libraries. Part one examines how Palestinian librarians, archivists, and individuals resist erasure by preserving Palestinian materials and narratives and by ensuring Palestinians’ access to library resources amidst recurring cycles of destruction and confiscation.
Essay on the soldiers who gang-raped a Palestinian prisoner at the Sde Teiman detention facility. The case was recently closed by Israel’s newly appointed Chief Military Advocate. Defense Minister Israel Katz met with the soldiers, apologized to them, and instructed the military to return them to service. Netanyahu issued a statement calling the case a “blood-libel” against heroic fighters confronting, in his words, “the worst of our enemies.”
My first reaction after utter horror, I am so glad my liberal zionist mother did not live to see this.
Just finished watching incredible webinar from +972 and On Call
Journalists Reporting Across Israel-Palestine Amid a Regional War
with journalists Ahmed Dremly from Gaza, Basel Adra from Massafer Yatta, Oren Ziv from +972 , and Ori Ziv Iraqi Jewish Israeli who just published Longing for My Tehran
She stated that Israel is a colonial state that maintains an apartheid regime. It cannot be “normal”, so Israelis choose war, brutality, and fighting to prove we can not give up our superiority. War allows Israelis to be both the aggressor and the eternal victim without accountability.
Of note: With or without a ceasefire, Israel is still targeting Gaza’s journalists
UCLA public health students spent the past year creating a course on Palestinian public health, and it’s now online. In the aftermath of the attacks on the UCLA Palestine Solidarity Encampment in May 2024, public health graduate students organized to develop a class where fellow students with interest in antiracism, anticolonialism, and health justice in Palestine could learn and process together in a productive and respectful manner. The course explores the pathways linking colonization and occupation as a “fundamental cause of health” to a range of issues including mental health; environmental and occupational health; communicable, maternal and perinatal conditions; and violence. Applied exercises center the history, stories, and voices of those individuals currently experiencing the most harm and violence in the region and finding solutions against it: Palestinians in Gaza.
A monthly journal called “The Key” includes a landmark essay from Lama Zuhair Khouri, a Palestinian-Jordanian psychoanalyst, who traces how exile and institutional formation shaped her into a “conscripted container” – a colonized subject conditioned and trained to absorb erasure and call it professionalism. Worth reading – and supporting.
The Institute for the Understanding of Anti-Palestinian Racism released new research on Anti-Palestinian Racism in Healthcare Settings. In a national survey of over 1,000 respondents exposed to anti-Palestinian racism, 21% reported having the experience in a healthcare setting. The study identifies a troubling pattern: exposure to anti-Palestinian racism in healthcare settings is associated with elevated negative health impact for both patients and providers and the reported experiences extend beyond the Palestinian community itself.
documents how torture has become integral to the domination of and punishment inflicted on men, women and children, both through custodial abuse and through a relentless campaign of forced displacement, mass killings, deprivation and destruction of all means of life to inflict long-term collective pain and suffering. A continuous, territorially pervasive regime of psychological terror is being imposed, designed to break bodies, deprive a people of their dignity and force them from their land. This is not incidental violence. It is the architecture of settler-colonialism, built on a foundation of dehumanization and maintained by a policy of cruelty and collective torture.
With the world’s attention focused on the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, Israel is making conditions unlivable for Palestinians in the West Bank. Residents say that every Israeli measure to “strangle” Palestinians feels like it’s “irreversible.”
Just over a week after the US and Israel launched their joint war on Iran, Israeli settlers have ramped up their violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, and Israeli forces have imposed a near-total closure of municipal centers, shutting gates and restricting crossings without warning or perceptible logic.
Israel dropped charges for all five soldiers accused of raping a Palestinian detainee – a decision praised by Benjamin Netanyahu, who said: “Israel must hunt down its enemies, not its own heroic fighters.” The military claimed it would be difficult to have a fair trial due to senior officials’ actions and that it didn’t have sufficient evidence because the Palestinian victim had been released back to Gaza, despite leaked video evidence and a doctor’s report that found the man arrived at the hospital with “a ruptured bowel, a severe injury to his anus, lung damage and broken ribs.”
Excellent webinar which clearly describes Palantir and its foray into healthcare: Briefing launch: The risks of Palantir in the NHS.
The Gazafication of Lebanon... continued violations of the Geneva Conventions. Since 3/2, Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 31 health professionals and wounded 51 others, the Lebanese health ministry said on 3/15. Israel has carried out at least 37 attacks against emergency medical workers. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the W.H.O., the World Health Organization condemned the attacks on health care workers and said it marked “a tragic development in the escalating Middle East crisis.”
Trump continues his attacks on higher education, DEI, science in show of power
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