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Dana Segall

Apr 25, 2018, 9:33 AM

University of Sydney student representative council votes: ‘We must act against anti-Semitism’

On April 4 2018, the Student Representative Council (SRC) of the University of Sydney voted to pass the motion ‘We Must Against Against Antisemitism’, the first of its kind in the university’s history. The motion was drafted by the Australasian...

Feb 6, 2018, 9:37 PM

The case for dialogue over boycott

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the most inflammatory topics when it comes to hosting events on university campuses in the UK. When former IDF officer Hen Mazzig was invited to speak at University College London recently, pro-Palestinian students...

Jan 30, 2018, 7:18 PM

Just a little bit of respect (is all we’re asking for)

Anybody who is interested in student politics and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict knows what happened when Hen Mazzig was invited to speak at UCL recently. Similar to his visit last year, pro-Palestinian students aggressively and loudly protested against somebody whom...

Dec 19, 2017, 1:07 AM

A response to Susan Abulhawa’s Al Jazeera article, ‘The Invention of the Mizrahim’

Susan Abulhawa posits in her 2017 Al Jazeera article, The Invention of the Mizrahim, that the term ‘Mizrahi’ was invented by European Zionists as a way to effectively strip Middle Eastern Jews of their distinctive national cultures and identities...

Nov 5, 2017, 1:30 PM

The enduring relevance of the Balfour Declaration: exploring the settler-colonialist myth

This week marks the centenary of the highly acclaimed Balfour Declaration. A hundred years ago, British foreign secretary Lord Balfour pledged to ‘view with favour’, the establishment of a ‘Jewish national home’ in Palestine. The declaration was met with controversy...

About Me

Dana Segall was recently awarded a Bachelor of International Relations from the University of Sydney with Highest Distinction, and will be pursuing her Master's in Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.