Posts tagged: palestine-uncensored

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  Becoming Monsters: What happens when the witness becomes the defendant?

  To whom should Palestinians fighting for liberation speak? For our Palestine Uncensored series, Islam Al-Khatib writes that the focus on appealing to an international audience has moderated and censored how Palestinians can imagine their fight for freedom. Instead, she argues that Palestinians must break out of the Western discursive frameworks that police their thinking about how liberation can be achieved.
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  The New McCarthyism: a personal testimony

  In November, Professor Warren Montag gave a talk at his university arguing that "anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism." For Palestine Uncensored, he recounts the ADL's campaign to get him fired as retaliation.
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  Testimonial 20: Cancellation of Anaïs Duplan's exhibition at Museum Folkwang

  Artists respond to the Essen-based Museum Folkwang's cancellation of Anaïs Duplan's exhibition after Duplan spoke out in solidarity with Palestine and condemned Israel's relentless bombardment of Gaza.
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  Sabri Hammoudeh: A life in exile

  Testimonial 19 of our Palestine Uncensored series details the life of Sabri Hammoudeh, a Palestinian refugee who was displaced during the Nakba in 1948.
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  "In Gaza you can witness what the end of the world will look like": A diary from Rafah

  "...there is nothing here except the pervasive smell of death." In December, Hudia, a refugee in Rafah, kept a diary of the horrors Israel has been visiting upon Gaza since October. This is testimonial 18 of our Palestine Uncensored series.

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  Testimonial 17: Daring to speak out for Palestine

  British universities are targeting and punishing their students for expressing support for Palestinians. In Testimonial 17 of our Palestine Uncensored series, a medical student describes being suspended from their university as retribution for their public solidarity with Palestine.
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  Naïve and instrumentalized? Judith Butler on the Mayor of Paris's Cancellation of the Meeting Against Antisemitism and Its Instrumentalization

  Judith Butler was planning to speak at a Palestine solidarity event in Paris in December until the city's mayor unilaterally cancelled it. Here, Butler describes the chain of events leading up to the cancellation and affirms the necessity of resisting political censorship around Palestine.
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  Testimonial 15: In defense of Palestine solidarity

  In testimonial 15 of our Palestine Uncensored series, scholars in Vienna speak out about the University of Vienna's unilateral cancellation of a teach-in series about Palestine. In the face of censorship, they ask "What would it mean for our solidarity to rest not on notional liberal values, but on a materialist commitment to Palestinian life and endurance, justice and liberation?"
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  Testimonial 14: Germany can censor its scholars, but it cannot hide its complicity

  Germany's repression and censorship of Palestinian solidarity has been especially brutal. In testimonial 14, Thamil V. Ananthavinayagan's describes how his chapter for a collection on settler colonialism was rejected for its discussion of Germany's culpability in the ongoing genocide against Palestinians.
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  Open Letter on Police Brutality Against Students and Silencing of Palestine Solidarity at Freie Universität Berlin

  An open letter to Freie Universität (FU) Berlin from students and faculty from across the world denouncing FU Berlin's decision to use armed police to forcibly evict a non-violent, pro-Palestinian occupation of a lecture hall. This is testimonial 13 in our Palestine Uncensored series.
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  Seeing and Believing in Palestine: Testimonial 12

  In the 12th instalment of our Palestine Uncensored series, Adam Kitaji describes how Israel's unrelenting siege in Gaza lays bare the moral and political illegitimacy of liberal international institutions.
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  Florida's right-wing government wants to scare faculty into silence – we won't let them

  Florida university administrations are using the state government's systematic attack on academic freedom to target faculty and students who speak out in solidarity with Palestine. In this testimony, a Florida university professor describes the atmosphere it's creating on campuses and how students, faculty, and staff are working to resist state repression.