Obama and Academic Freedom in Palestine

Readers and comrades -

I have not posted for a long time, due to intense work commitments.  But the world continues to turn, surprisingly enough, even when I am not paying attention to it. 

Here is a recent piece from Electronic Intifada, on academic freedom in the Palestinian Territories, and Obama's moronic musings on Israel:

Obama must end support for Israeli apartheid against Palestinian scholars

 

And, from the same journal, an earlier piece to remind us that problems of academic and educational access in an occupied zone can be of the most quotidian kind:

Jerusalem students face constant harassment by Israeli forces

Conor