London, 1st May 2024- This week, the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) wrote to eighty-two British universities alerting them of the potential risk of criminal liability over any investments held in both arms companies and Israeli settlements. The letters inform universities that profiting off investments made in companies supplying weapons to a military that uses them in the commission of […]
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History Repeating at Columbia: Student Gaza Protests Inspire the World
JF: Back in 2010 while working as a central government press and communications officer I interviewed one Manouche Shafik, then head of the now defunct Department For International Development. Fast forward fourteen years and I see her name again, this time at the heart of the maelstrom surrounding the current US student protests in support of the Palestinians that are […]