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    ارتفاع عدد القتلى الصحفيين في غزة

    Number of Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza rises to 240

    Egyptian citizen Moharam Azab died hours after his arrest.

    Egypt: Death of citizen Moharram Azab just hours after his arrest

    الوصول للمساعدات الإنسانية في السودان محدود جدا

    Sudan: Rising deaths due to malnutrition in Kordofan and Darfur

    غزة.. 115 قتيلاً من الجوع ونداء عاجل لإنقاذ أكثر من مليوني إنسان

    Gaza: Israeli occupation kills dozens more Palestinians in another day of genocide

    سوء التغذية يفتك بأطفال غزة

    UN Officially Declares Famine in Gaza as the World Limits Itself to Issuing Statements

    تحذير أممي من تفاقم الإبادة الجماعية في غزة بسبب الحصار

    Children of Gaza: Trapped Between Bombs, Hunger, and Forced Displacement

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    عزل نائب رئيس محكمة العدل الدولية بات أمرًا ملحًا

    The Dismissal of the ICJ Vice-President Is a Pressing Necessity

    السلطات الإريترية تصعّد حملتها على المؤسسات الدينية الإسلامية بإغلاق مركز تحفيظ القرآن في قندع واعتقال مديره

    Eritrean authorities crackdown on Islamic religious institutions by closing Qur’an memorisation centre in Ghinda and arresting its director

    مجزرة جديدة للصحفيين … حلقة في مخطط الاحتلال لإسكات الحقيقة وتغطية الإبادة الجماعية في غزة

    Another massacre of journalists — a deliberate step in the occupation’s plan to silence truth and conceal the genocide in Gaza

    ندوة: مؤسسة غزة الإنسانية شريك في جريمة الإبادة الجماعية

    Webinar: The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s Role in the Crime of Genocide

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    Israel’s War in Gaza is Not a Valid Act of Self-defence in International Law

    Legal Consequences for Third States of Israel’s breaches of international law in the Palestinian Gaza Strip

    A Perverse and Ominous Enterprise: The Death Penalty and Illegal Executions in Saudi Arabia

    A Perverse and Ominous Enterprise: The Death Penalty and Illegal Executions in Saudi Arabia

    Death Penalty Arab Republic of Egypt

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    The Situation in Palestine before the ICC

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    ندوة: مؤسسة غزة الإنسانية شريك في جريمة الإبادة الجماعية

    Webinar: The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s Role in the Crime of Genocide

    Webinar: The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s Role in the Crime of Genocide

    Webinar: The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s Role in the Crime of Genocide

    تقرير ندوة- تجويع غزة: الجريمة، الصمت، وخيارات المواجهة

    Webinar Report- Starving Gaza: The Crime, The Silence, The Action Needed

    Webinar- Starving Gaza: The Crime, The Silence, The Action Needed

    Webinar- Starving Gaza: The Crime, The Silence, The Action Needed

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    ندوة: مؤسسة غزة الإنسانية شريك في جريمة الإبادة الجماعية

    Webinar: The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s Role in the Crime of Genocide

    تقرير ندوة- تجويع غزة: الجريمة، الصمت، وخيارات المواجهة

    Webinar Report- Starving Gaza: The Crime, The Silence, The Action Needed

    ندوة- 20 شهرًا من الإبادة: جرائم “مؤسسة غزة الإنسانية” ومصير نشطاء سفينة مادلين

    Webinar- 20 Months of Genocide: The Role of the ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ and the Disappearance of the Madleen Boat Activists

    ندوة: هل يكفي التهديد الأوروبي بفرض عقوبات على الاحتلال؟

    Webinar Report: Is Threatening Sanctions Enough? European Complicity in Gaza’s Genocide Under the Spotlight

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    ارتفاع عدد القتلى الصحفيين في غزة

    Number of Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza rises to 240

    Egyptian citizen Moharam Azab died hours after his arrest.

    Egypt: Death of citizen Moharram Azab just hours after his arrest

    الوصول للمساعدات الإنسانية في السودان محدود جدا

    Sudan: Rising deaths due to malnutrition in Kordofan and Darfur

    غزة.. 115 قتيلاً من الجوع ونداء عاجل لإنقاذ أكثر من مليوني إنسان

    Gaza: Israeli occupation kills dozens more Palestinians in another day of genocide

    سوء التغذية يفتك بأطفال غزة

    UN Officially Declares Famine in Gaza as the World Limits Itself to Issuing Statements

    تحذير أممي من تفاقم الإبادة الجماعية في غزة بسبب الحصار

    Children of Gaza: Trapped Between Bombs, Hunger, and Forced Displacement

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    عزل نائب رئيس محكمة العدل الدولية بات أمرًا ملحًا

    The Dismissal of the ICJ Vice-President Is a Pressing Necessity

    السلطات الإريترية تصعّد حملتها على المؤسسات الدينية الإسلامية بإغلاق مركز تحفيظ القرآن في قندع واعتقال مديره

    Eritrean authorities crackdown on Islamic religious institutions by closing Qur’an memorisation centre in Ghinda and arresting its director

    مجزرة جديدة للصحفيين … حلقة في مخطط الاحتلال لإسكات الحقيقة وتغطية الإبادة الجماعية في غزة

    Another massacre of journalists — a deliberate step in the occupation’s plan to silence truth and conceal the genocide in Gaza

    ندوة: مؤسسة غزة الإنسانية شريك في جريمة الإبادة الجماعية

    Webinar: The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s Role in the Crime of Genocide

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    Israel’s War in Gaza is Not a Valid Act of Self-defence in International Law

    Legal Consequences for Third States of Israel’s breaches of international law in the Palestinian Gaza Strip

    A Perverse and Ominous Enterprise: The Death Penalty and Illegal Executions in Saudi Arabia

    A Perverse and Ominous Enterprise: The Death Penalty and Illegal Executions in Saudi Arabia

    Death Penalty Arab Republic of Egypt

    The Death Penalty Arab Republic of Egypt

    The Situation in Palestine before the ICC

    The Situation in Palestine before the ICC

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    ندوة: مؤسسة غزة الإنسانية شريك في جريمة الإبادة الجماعية

    Webinar: The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s Role in the Crime of Genocide

    Webinar: The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s Role in the Crime of Genocide

    Webinar: The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s Role in the Crime of Genocide

    تقرير ندوة- تجويع غزة: الجريمة، الصمت، وخيارات المواجهة

    Webinar Report- Starving Gaza: The Crime, The Silence, The Action Needed

    Webinar- Starving Gaza: The Crime, The Silence, The Action Needed

    Webinar- Starving Gaza: The Crime, The Silence, The Action Needed

  • Multimedia
    ندوة: مؤسسة غزة الإنسانية شريك في جريمة الإبادة الجماعية

    Webinar: The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s Role in the Crime of Genocide

    تقرير ندوة- تجويع غزة: الجريمة، الصمت، وخيارات المواجهة

    Webinar Report- Starving Gaza: The Crime, The Silence, The Action Needed

    ندوة- 20 شهرًا من الإبادة: جرائم “مؤسسة غزة الإنسانية” ومصير نشطاء سفينة مادلين

    Webinar- 20 Months of Genocide: The Role of the ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ and the Disappearance of the Madleen Boat Activists

    ندوة: هل يكفي التهديد الأوروبي بفرض عقوبات على الاحتلال؟

    Webinar Report: Is Threatening Sanctions Enough? European Complicity in Gaza’s Genocide Under the Spotlight

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Student body at major US university backs ‘divestment from Israeli apartheid’

February 11, 2021
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Students at a major US university have voted to divest in companies that work with Israel, calling on the university to drop its shares in businesses including Boeing, Ford, 4M and Lockheed Martin.

The student government at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) voted 19-3 for the measure, which the motion called a “divestment from apartheid”, on Tuesday, 9 February. It also noted that the call was in “no way related to Judaism”.

The motion states: “Israel has terrorized, displaced, and killed hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from its founding in the 1947-1949 Palestine War until the modern day”, and goes on to compare Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to white South Africa’s treatment of the black majority under the apartheid regime.

Activists noted Israel’s policies of voter suppression, restrictions of the Covid-19 vaccine and restrictions on movement as examples as to why the state should be described as using apartheid against Palestinian communities.

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The motion added that the “millions spent on apartheid” should instead be used to provide students with their basic needs.

The policy is another victory in the international campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against the Israeli state. The BDS movement has repeatedly come under fire from governments allied to Israel, such as the United States and Britain, with many inaccurately describing it as “antisemitic”.  

This is the second time that such legislation has been passed by the student body. In 2019-2020, a similar motion was passed, only for it to be overturned at a later meeting, due to it being “hastily written to dismiss the voices of students”.

The university itself adopted the Principles for Responsible Investment, backed by the United Nations, in 2014. This calls for environmental, social and governance to be considered when making decisions related to investments.

The BDS campaign was launched by a coalition of 170 Palestinian human rights organisations in 2005, and has since spread across the globe.

Last year alone, the UK’s Trades Union Congress backed the call, as did the World Federation of Churches, while the UK’s Supreme Court said local authorities have the right to divest in companies complicit in Israel’s human rights violations. The European Court of Human Rights also ruled that calls to boycott Israeli goods were protected under freedom of expression rules.

Read also: Ending war in Yemen: Why the UK must ban arms exports to Saudi?

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