Week in Review
11/16/24
Scholar Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian Named as 2024 AMEU/Mahoney Award Winner
Legal scholar, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian who left Hebrew University after coming under attack for "incitement" has been awarded the 2024 AMEU/Mahoney Award Winner.
No, there were no ‘antisemitic pogroms’ in Amsterdam. Here’s what really happened.
What really happened in Amsterdam.
November 17 musical event to feature Gazan and Kenyan artists making music together
Health care workers in Gaza ask why the international community ignores their suffering
I am quoted....
Dr. Alice Rothchild is a retired OB-GYN and a member of Jewish Voice for Peace...“There is a genocide, there [are] now academic papers documenting the deliberate targeting of all health care institutions, health centers, health care workers” in Gaza. Gaza’s two schools of medicine, she added, have been bombed and its universities reduced to rubble. “Medical institutions [should] say this is egregious behavior, and we need to call it out. And we need to pressure Congress and Biden and anyone who has any power to stop this. The way to stop this is not to give Israel a free pass and not to send them billions and billions of dollars of weaponry that allow them to continue this genocide.”
JVP HAC Webinar: Why the Gaza Conflict is now a Regional and soon to be Global Conflict
Urgent health update: Consequences of war on Gaza, West Bank/East Jerusalem, and Lebanon 11/8/24
Please read, share with colleagues, family, elected officials, political groups, medical organizations...every week is more horrifying than the last...
Israeli air, land, & sea bombardment continues across Gaza, causing further civilian casualties, displacement, & destruction of houses & other civilian infrastructure. The siege of Northern Gaza has choked off almost all humanitarian aid, and intense ground attacks increase casualties as Israel issues evacuation orders – with nowhere to go.
The extension of the war to the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen is a health and human rights emergency, and an escalation that threatens world war.
What did you think would happen when you screamed “Death to Arabs” in Amsterdam?
7 poems and readings from my new memoir 'Inspired and Outraged' published by New Village Press, Hardcover, 432 pages. Available November 18, 2024.
Heritage Foundation’s Christian Nationalist ‘Project Esther’ Won’t Combat Antisemitism — But it Will Weaponize Jews
The latest from the Heritage Fund, Project Esther, a 33-page document that calls on the federal government to use counterterrorism, immigration, surveillance, intelligence gathering and other apparatuses to “disrupt and degrade” Palestinian rights organizations and a range of progressive funding infrastructure.
'Old Enough to Know' book review in Skipping Stones, a multicultural literary magazine for kids.
DOCTORS REJECT RFK JR. APPOINTMENT TO SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
If you are a physician, please sign and oppose RFKs appointment to secretary of health and human rights
As physicians, we understand the grave danger RFK Jr.'s false claims and misinformation pose to our public health infrastructure. Collectively, we must tell the Senate that this appointment is reckless and dangerous, and that they must protect and defend our patients' access to quality health care by rejecting his appointment.