1967 photo of an Israeli military tank in the Palestinian city of Nablus at the beginning of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank; the photo was taken by the father of historian Dana Sajdi

Why I’m Voting Yes on BDS

BY DANA SAJDI Part of my choosing to be a premodern historian is precisely to escape the reality of having been born and raised until adolescence in Nablus, in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.  As a schoolgirl, it was a daily routine for me to carry in my lunch tiffin an onion, the root vegetable considered…

MESA Condemns Raids on Universities

Below is the text of a June 30 letter signed by Nathan Brown, President of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA), and addressed to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.  The letter protests recent Israeli incursions into Palestinian universities on the West Bank, which it calls…