David Project News Today

As pro-Palestine demos sweep US university campuses, university authorities at the behest of Israeli lobbies have intensified the purge of pro-Palestine professors.

As an alum, I’ve paid close attention to the ongoing discourse on our campus regarding the Israel-led genocide in Palestine. I began this essay after The Hustler’s April 11 coverage —  “Alumni, faculty open letters criticize student BDS efforts, call for campus civility.” I find much of what I’m reading and seeing alarming, as I...

The ruthless police crackdown on pro-Palestinian protests in universities across the US is a continuation of years of silent repression and malign Zionist influence on American academia.

I lived through a similar college crisis after 9/11. The lessons of that era are urgent.

The Palestinian Feminist Collective condemns sophicide and scholasticide in Gaza - the deliberate annihilation of Indigenous knowledge traditions and the physical destruction of centers of knowledge.

A major Israeli news site says Israel’s foreign affairs and diaspora affairs ministries are behind the operation.

Former Berkeley chancellor Nicholas Dirks discusses his forthright new book, which recounts a tumultuous career in higher education on both coasts. In his new book, City of Intellect: The Uses and Abuses of the University (Cambridge University Press), Nicholas B. Dirks candidly reflects on his short and challenging tenure (2013–2017) as chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley.

The same forces targeting Palestine solidarity work are trying to end all campus discussions of anticolonial politics.

As a Vanderbilt sophomore in 2016, I was recruited for a seemingly great opportunity: I could go on a nearly free trip to Israel with a national organization called The David Project (TDP). The program, called “Israel Uncovered,” specifically targeted non-Jewish students with an interest in activism and a desire to learn more about Israel...

Jewish communities, despite their history of prioritizing questions above answers, are not immune to this new climate that discourages diversity of viewpoint and the questioning of certain ideologies.