January 2024
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[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 history in public culture, the…
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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…