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  • Palestine Uncensored: Testimonial 5, The corporate clamp-down on academic freedom

    Palestine Uncensored: Testimonial 5, The corporate clamp-down on academic freedom

    Eventbrite de-platformed an event with Omar Barghouti and Neve Gordon after a previously planned talk's title was changed to "Carnage in Palestine: Oppression, Complicity and Ethical Responsibility” following Hamas's October 7 attacks. Neve Gordon explains the danger of such suppression in Testimonial 5 of our Palestine Uncensored series.
  • Palestine Uncensored: Diaries of Censorship

    Palestine Uncensored: Diaries of Censorship

    Across the world, people standing in solidarity with Palestine in the face of Israel's genocidal siege are being silenced and punished for their principled stance. We are launching a call for stories of censorship and retribution for demanding justice for Palestinians. This is Palestine Uncensored.
  • Zionism’s Political Unconscious

    Zionism’s Political Unconscious

     â€śFrom the river to the sea” is “threatening” and “intimidating” speech; it is a call to “genocidal violence.” Perhaps such interpretations are revealing in ways those voicing them cannot quite hear—or admit.
  • Palestine Uncensored: Testimonial 4

    Palestine Uncensored: Testimonial 4

    'This city and this country cannot criminalise and mute our voices and still expect our cultural work to continue its active resonance. Mine will most definitely not.' Dr. Khyam Allami declares an indefinite strike against German state-funded cultural institutions until Germany stops their violent suppression of pro-Palestine solidarity.
  • From the River to the Sea: A Historical Inquiry

    From the River to the Sea: A Historical Inquiry

    Attacks and smears against those who proclaim “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” were always part of a strategy for erasing and undermining Palestinian self-determination. 
  • Palestine Will Be Free

    Palestine Will Be Free

    Today there is only one progressive way out: to democratize the entire territory, to grant all of its inhabitants equality of political, social, and economic rights, to allow the refugees to return, and to make decisions on the future based through the basic principle of one person one vote.
  • Working in the grey area

    Working in the grey area

    Naomi Braine draws parallels between the current state of affairs for many self-managed abortion activists and her own experience in harm reduction through syringe distribution.

  • Leftists of one form or another

    Leftists of one form or another

    Lynne Segal considers the conflicts rumbling within second wave feminism in the 1970s, not least Selma James’ disruptive Wages for Housework campaign.

  • Palestine Uncensored: Testimonial 3

    Palestine Uncensored: Testimonial 3

    Since October 7, pro-Palestine students at universities across the world have faced unprecedented levels of censorship from their institutions, often fueled by their billionaire donors. As part of Verso's Palestine Uncensored series, Francesco Anselmetti details Harvard's policy of censorship and repression.
  • Palestine Uncensored: Testimonial 2

    Palestine Uncensored: Testimonial 2

    At LSE, an arcane rule barring event chairs from "expressing their own views on the subject matter of the event," prevented Dr Ayça Çubukçu from delivering the following remarks denouncing Israel's horrific siege in Gaza and highlighting the enormous solidarity demonstrations that have taken place over the past month.