Historians for Peace
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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 needed. Please call your Congressional…
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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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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 to provide information “on Israel’s…
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Dear friends of H-PAD, This is a preliminary report. On Saturday evening, January 6, the Business Meeting at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association voted unanimously in favor of our resolution. We had agreed to support two amendments proposed by AHA’s Council, and there was an additional one from the floor which amended…
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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 it will come – eventually.”…
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Dear friends, We wanted to share this excellent webinar from December, sponsored by the American Historical Association. Titled History Behind the Headlines: Approaches to Teaching Israel–Palestine, the discussants are Omer Bartov, Michelle Campos, Ussama Makdisi (who gave a powerful presentation in our “Is Israel Turning Fascist” roundtable at AHA), Katherina Matro, James Ryan, and AHA Executive Director James Grossman.…
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HPAD members & supporters, We’re writing today with an invitation to another webinar on the conflict in Israel/Palestine, titled The Gaza War, Short & Long-Term Diplomatic Imperatives, & Implications for the Middle East and Geopolitics. The webinar is taking place next Wednesday, the 10th of January @7pm EST, features panelists Richard Falk, Irene Gendzier, and Assaf Kfoury, and is sponsored by The…
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Good source of resources on upcoming events From the national Ceasefire Caucus Get Outlook for iOS From: Odeliya Matter <OMatter@fcnl.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2023 1:30:06 PM To: #CeasefireNow Attendees <CeasefireNowAttendees@fcnl.org> Subject: Thank you for joining seventh #CeasefireNow call + resources EXTERNAL MESSAGE Hello colleagues, Thank you so much for attending our seventh weekly…
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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 starvation. Meanwhile Congress is close…
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HPAD members & supporters, We’re writing today with information about a mini-conference at the American Historical Association’s Annual Meeting this year, sponsored by the Radical History Review, an affiliate organization of the AHA, with support from Historians for Peace and Democracy. See below for further details about the “mini-conference”. The full schedule for its eighteen sessions is available on the…