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PJA-Stellungnahme zur Finanzierung und Förderung der NOVA Music Festival Exhibition durch den Berliner Senat
Der Verein palästinensischer und jüdischer Akademiker*innen (PJA) ist äußerst besorgt über die Bereitstellung von knapp 1,4 Millionen Euro an öffentlichen Mitteln durch das Land Berlin für die NOVA Music Festival Ausstellung (1), die vom 7.10. bis 16.11.2025 stattfand, sowie über die an Schulen, Hochschulen und Jugendeinrichtungen gerichtete Aufforderung der Senatsverwaltung für Bildung, Jugend und Familie, Continue reading
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PJA Statement on the Berlin Senate’s Funding and Promotion of the NOVA Music Festival Exhibition
The Association of Palestinian–Jewish Academics (PJA) expresses its profound concern regarding the City of Berlin’s allocation of nearly 1.4 million euros in public funds to the NOVA Music Festival Exhibition (1), which ran from 7.10 to 16.11.2025, as well as the directive from the Senate Department for Education urging schools, universities, and youth institutions to Continue reading
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Statement on the Cancellation of the Event “The Targeting of the Palestinian Academia” at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
The Association of Palestinian and Jewish Academics (PJA), together with the Alliance for Critical and Solidary Scholarship (KRISOL) and the German Middle East Studies Association Committee on Academic Freedom (DAVO/GFW), has today released a public statement regarding the recent cancellation of the lecture The Targeting of the Palestinian Academia at LMU Munich. The statement criticizes Continue reading
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Event: Gaza Tribunal 2025 – Responsibility and International Law
Palestinian Jewish Academics (PJA) is pleased to be taking part in Gaza Tribunal 2025 – Responsibility and International Law, organized by Deutsche Juristinnen für das Völkerrecht. The tribunal will focus on Germany’s responsibilities under international law in relation to the situation in Gaza. It brings together legal experts, scholars, and civil society voices to address Continue reading
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Makdisi Street Podcast: “A little more than nothing is better than nothing” with Michael Barenboim
Palestinian Jewish Academics (PJA) member Michael Barenboim appears on the latest episode of the podcast Makdisi Street. The Makdisi brothers feature Michael in a wide‐ranging conversation in which he reflects on the intersections of classical music, dissent, Palestinian identity and the realities of anti-Palestinian racism in Germany, and PJA. 📍 Listen here: https://youtu.be/NaFY7ywJF-c Continue reading
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Erklärung der Vereinigung palästinensischer und jüdischer Akademiker*innen (PJA) zu den Gerichtsverfahren gegen protestierende Studierende der ETH Zürich
Der Verein palästinensischer und jüdischer Akademiker*innen (PJA) vertritt jüdische und palästinensische Wissenschaftler*innen in deutschsprachigen Ländern. Am 7. und 31. Mai 2024 veranstalteten zwischen 60 und 100 Studierende Sitzstreiks an der ETH Zürich, um gegen die Komplizenschaft der Universität am anhaltenden Völkermord Israels in Gaza zu protestieren. Diese Komplizenschaft lässt sich auf finanzielle und institutionelle Verbindungen Continue reading
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Statement by the Association of Palestinian and Jewish Academics (PJA) on the trials of ETH Zurich student protesters
The Association of Palestinian and Jewish Academics (PJA) represents Jewish and Palestinian scholars in German-speaking countries. On May 7 and 31, 2024, between 60 and 100 students staged sit-ins at ETH Zurich to protest the university’s complicity in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza through its financial and institutional ties to Israeli institutions, which are instrumental Continue reading
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Two PJA Members Among Voices in nd‑aktuell on Palestine Recognition
A new article in nd‑aktuell (Erster Schritt, aber zu spät?) presents a range of left-wing voices on Germany’s recognition of Palestine—featuring two PJA members: Nahed Samour and Michael Barenboim. Samour critiques the two-state framing for overlooking legal responsibilities, on-the-ground realities, and the demands of Palestinian civil society. Barenboim urges a human-rights-focused, decolonial path that prioritizes Continue reading
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Interview with PJA Members in Berliner Zeitung: On Gaza, Scholasticide, and Solidarity
Berliner Zeitung has published an in-depth interview with PJA founding members Aurélia Kalisky and Nahed Samour, on the occasion of our upcoming first annual conference in Berlin. The article, Gaza: ‘There is no other conflict in which all universities have been destroyed’, addresses the unprecedented destruction of all eleven universities in Gaza during Israel’s current Continue reading
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Resisting Complicity: The Role of Academia in Times of Genocide. An Interview with Ilan Pappé
In this critical moment of twenty months of unfolding genocide in Gaza and intensified debates within German academic and cultural institutions over the boundaries of political expression, academic freedom, and institutional culpability, we spoke with the Israeli historian Ilan Pappé. Pappé’s work has long unsettled official narratives and broken silences around the foundational injustices of Continue reading
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