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A Santa Barbara man was arrested Thursday on a warrant alleging that he committed multiple felony sex crimes in 2022 and 2023, according to the Santa
French writer and Nobel prize winner Annie Ernaux, US academic and writer Judith Butler, and deputy director of the French National Museum of Modern Art Catherine David are the most prominent of the 1,500 signatories to have put their names to the “Strike Germany” statement to date.
Palestinian socialist activist Sally Abed, one of the leaders of Standing Together, has rightly said: “Whatever the ICJ verdict says, it cannot change the unfathomable, catastrophic dehumanisation and massacres in the context of decades of systematic, violent oppression. It is up to us, the people on the ground, to lead the fight and build the power for change.”
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), one of the organisations at the centre of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, has issued a call for a global boycott and no-platforming of Standing Together, a left-wing social movement in Israel, several of the leaders of which are Palestinian. This means a boycott of one of the main anti-war voices in Israeli society. The prime beneficiaries can only be the right-wing government and the settler movement.
A proper understanding of the long history of the two peoples reveals their shared heritage and centuries of peaceful coexistence.