Three years ago, I walked through the ruins of Palestinian homes on a mountain top in the occupied West Bank. The shepherds and olive farmers were expelled in 1967, forbidden from returning, and the land was designated a “closed military site.” A sign in Hebrew casually marked their dispossession. ...
On Tuesday, November 7, Associate Chair of the biology department Dr. Scott Michaels sent an email out about a "small, but possibly growing, movement on campus to remove the name of David Starr Jordan from Jordan Hall." In the past weeks, members of the campus group Students against State Violence posted ...
On Thursday, October 13th a group of IU students came together for a letter-writing event hosted by Jstreet at IU, a pro-Israel, pro-human rights group advocating a two state solution for the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Their issue was the small, Palestinian village of Khirbet Susya, which is under ...
"There's a new sheriff in town." Nikki Haley, one-time governor of South Carolina and now U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, received standing ovation after standing ovation at the 2017 AIPAC policy conference. Every year, the pro-Israel lobby convenes an annual gathering of supporters, boasting ...
A week ago, Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, signed into law a contentious bill decriminalizing domestic violence between family members. No longer in the Russian criminal code, domestic violence is now treated like any other case of battery, an "administrative violation." Battery ...
