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H-PAD Notes 11/22/24: Links to recent articles of interest
View in browser Links to Recent Articles of Interest “When Does Power Concede? Thwarting MAGA Will Take More than Protest and Symbolic Resistance” By Van Gosse, The Nation, posted November 19 On the mixed history of “states’ rights” in the US, evoking the legacy of northern resistance to fugitive slave…
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Action Alert! Netanyahu Arriving in DC Today! Our Voices Needed!
HPAD members, Netanyahu Arriving in DC Today! Our Voices Needed! The crisis in Gaza and the West Bank continues, although eclipsed by election news. Netanyahu is arriving in Washington today and will meet with a now weakened President Biden. In a disgraceful development, leaders of the House and Senate (including…
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H-PAD Notes 7/22/24: Links to recent articles of interest
Links to Recent Articles of Interest “The Regional Origins of America’s First Comprehensive Immigration Law” By Devin E. Naar, Made by History – Time, posted July 6 On the background of the Immigration Restriction Act of 1924 and its author, Rep. Albert Johnson (R-Wash). “Even as the…
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H-PAD Notes 6/18/24: Links to recent articles of interest
Links to Recent Articles of Interest “UN Commission of Inquiry: Israel Guilty of Crimes against Humanity, Hamas Guilty of War Crimes” By Juan Cole, Informed Comment, posted June 13 A detailed summary of the June 12 UN investigatory report that detailed war crimes committed by Hamas and allied groups on October 7 and…
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On Gaza : Urgent Phone Calls needed Today!
Responding to President Biden’s ambiguous threat to cut off weapons to Israel, if its military proceeded with the offensive in Rafah, House Republicans have introduced a bill to block Biden from freezing arms transfers. If passed, this would be an unprecedented attempt by Congress to prevent human rights from even being…
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H-PAD Notes 5/10/24: Links to recent articles of interest
Links to Recent Articles of Interest “In Harvard Yard” By Walter Johnson, New York Review of Books, posted May 8 A complex account of the dynamics of the pro-Palestinian encampment that began April 24 at Harvard University and the administration’s response to it. The author teaches African and African American Studies at Harvard. “Why…
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H-PAD Notes 4/18/24: Links to recent articles of interest
Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Israeli Massacres Continue in Gaza as Returnees to North Are Targeted and Refugee Camp Is Bombed” By Juan Cole, Informed Comment, posted April 15 A reminder of the ongoing collective punishment in Gaza amid media focus on Israel-Iran tensions. The author teaches Middle East…
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H-PAD Notes 3/12/24: Bancroft Prize; links to recent articles of interest
Note: Carolyn “Rusti” Eisenberg, author of one of the articles in the following list and a longtime Steering Committee member of H-PAD and its predecessor, Historians Against the War, has been announced as a winner of the prestigious Bancroft Prize awarded annually by the Organization of American Historians. The award…
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Save UNRWA Funding Call 202-224-3121
Legislative Alert: Preserve UNRWA Funding ! Despite the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, the Biden Administration has cut off funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency ( UNRWA,) the primary organization carrying out relief inside Gaza. Representatives Raskin, Carson and Jayapal are circulating a Congressional letter calling for the preservation…
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Legislative Alert: Preserve UNRWA Funding
Legislative Alert: Preserve UNRWA Funding ! Despite the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, the Biden Administration has cut off funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency ( UNRWA,) the primary organization carrying out relief inside Gaza. Representatives Raskin, Carson and Jayapal are circulating a Congressional letter calling for the…
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H-PAD Notes 2/6/24: Links to recent articles after 1/12
Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Top 3 Things Biden Could Do Instead of Intensively Bombing Iraq and Syria” By Juan Cole, Informed Comment, posted February 3 A short piece arguing the futility of US air strikes in Iraq and Syria and advocating the withdrawal of US troops from both…
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Urgent: Upcoming House Vote on Military Aid to Israel
In the next day or two, the House of Representatives will be voting on a bill which gives $17.6 billion in additional military aid to Israel. Granting Israel another huge gift of money for weapons at a time when its military is massacring Palestinian civilians is beyond horrific. Dissenting voices are urgently…
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Please sign this scholars’ letter to President Biden!
HPAD members & supporters, This letter to President Biden urges immediate action on Gaza, and we hope all of our supporters with an academic affiliation (e.g. an “.edu” email) will sign and forward to colleagues. It closes February 7–no time to lose! Margaret Power and Van Gosse, H-PAD Co-Chairs
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In Defense of the Right to Learn
[Passed at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, January 6, 2024] Whereas, the AHA’s Guiding Principles on Taking a Public Stance (2017) specify that “in a wide range of situations, whether involving the rights and careers of individual historians, historical practice in diverse venues, or the role of…
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TIME SENSITIVE: Call your Senators Today to Vote for Sanders Resolution
TIME SENSITIVE : CALL YOUR SENATORS TODAY! Senator Bernie Sanders has called the Israeli bombardment of Gaza a “mass atrocity . . . being done with bombs and equipment produced and provided by the United States and heavily subsidized by American taxpayers.” The Senator recently introduced S. Res. 504 mandating the Biden Administration…
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H-PAD Notes 1/12/24: Links to recent articles of interest
Links to Recent Articles of Interest “History Tells Us How the Israel-Hamas War Will End” By Ian S. Lustick, Time, posted January 10 “An American order to stop is not what Israeli leaders fear, it is what they expect, and it is what the country always needs. And history shows…
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Contacting Congress is More Urgent Than Ever!!!
Contacting Congress is More Urgent Than Ever! Within 24 hours of the American veto of a UN Ceasefire Resolution, Israel was accelerating its air attack on southern Gaza, where they had previously told people to seek safety. Thousands of children have been killed, and tens of thousands are dying of…
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H-PAD Notes 11/29/23: webinars on Israel/Palestine; links to recent articles of interest
Two Notes on Webinars: On Thursday, November 30 (7-8pm Eastern time), H-PAD and Massachusetts Peace Action will present a webinar on “Why There Will Be No Winners in the Israel-Gaza War.” The speaker is Andrew Bacevich, a retired US Army colonel and a professor emeritus of history and international relations…
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H-PAD recommended reading on Palestine and Israel (October 2023)
The Steering Committee of Historians for Peace and Democracy (H-PAD) has compiled some of the most important statements, interviews, and articles on Palestine and Israel that have appeared since October 7. The following is a sampling of some of the best English-language analysis from progressive and anti-imperialist voices. We know…
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H-PAD Statement on Escalation of Violence in Israel and Palestine (joint statement with other organizations, October 15, 2023)
The H-PAD steering committee endorsed the following sign-on statement on October 15, 2023. We, the undersigned organizations, write to express our urgent concern regarding dire and escalating violence in Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territory, which continues to result in significant human suffering and loss of civilian life. We condemn all…