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BRICUP is an organisation of UK based academics, set up in response to the Palestinian Call for Academic Boycott. Its twin missions are:
- to support Palestinian universities, staff and students, and
- to oppose the continued illegal Israeli occupation of Palestinian
lands with its concomitant breaches of international conventions of
human rights, its refusal to accept UN resolutions or rulings of the
International Court, and its persistent suppression of Palestinian academic
freedom.
What is BRICUP - find out more
BRICUP Newsletter
Previous editions
BRICUP Newsletter 4
BRICUP Newsletter 3
BRICUP Newsletter 2
BRICUP Newsletter 1
BRICUP open letter to Branford Marsalis posted 23 June 2008
BRICUP has sent an open letter to Jazz Musician Branford Marsalis. We are asking him not to play in Tel Aviv in July as part of Israel's 60th birthday celebrations
Independent publishes rebuttals of Fitzsimons posted 12June 2008
The Independent published four letters from BRICUP supporters rebutting the article they published a week earlier by Lorna Fitzsimons. Fitzsimons, Chief Executive of BICOM - the well funded pro-Israeli propaganda and PR organisation - had seriously misrepresented the decisions of UCU congress.
Jean-Luc Goddard refuses to go to Israel
Prominent Frenc nouvelle vague film director, Jean Luc Goddard has supported the cultural boycott of Israel by rwefusing to go to the Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival.
Read the report in the Washington Post
UCU congress passes complicity and greylisting motion posted 3 June 2008
On 28 May the UK Universities and Colleges Union (UCU) Annual Congress in Manchester overwhelmingly passed a motion re-affirming its opposition to Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and its determination to highlight the extent of the complicity of Israeli Higher Education Institutions in the occupation.
- Read full report
- Read PACBI's reponse to the vote
- Listen to a podcast of BRICUP's eve of congress meeting
Medical ethical violations in Gaza posted 27/05/08
Article in the Lancet December 22-29 2007
Uri Davis motion to Israeli Anthropological Association posted 26/05/08
Professor Uri Davis has proposed a motion suppporting the academic boycott to the Israeli Anthropological Association. This has not yet been debated but is being posted on their website.
Report of debate at Institute of Social Studies, The Hague posted 22/05/08
Acknowledging the past, Imagining the future: Confronting the impasse between Israel and the Palestinians
A public debate with Omar Barghouti, Independent Palestinian Analyst and Commentator and Salomon Bouman, former correspondent for NRC Handelsblad in Israel.
Video and audio streams of the debate
Statement from End The Occupation South Africa posted 19/05/08
End The Occupation South Africa sent a message out to supporters of the Palestinian liberation movement. The advertisement appeared on page 41 of the Citizen (15 May 2008). Read this powerful statement signed by many prominent veterans of the struggle against apartheid
Breaking News: Russel Banks refuses to go to Israel
Writer Russell Banks refuses to attend the International Writers' Festival in Israel in May soon after BRICUP publishes an open letter requesting him to boycott the event. This contrasts with Nadime Gordimer rejecting our plea which has attracted much negative comment in South Africa and elsewhere.
Breaking News: BRICUP launches its podcast service
Podcasts will now be available on this site. The first two feature Palestinain academics who visited us as part of the UCU tour and the third an Arab Israeli UCU member talking about her experiences
- Lisa Taraki speaking at Lambeth College on 25 April 2008
- Samia al Botmeh in conversation with Mike Cushman on 27 April 2008
- An Arab Israeli FE lecturer and UCU
member talking about her experience of abuse as a student at Tel
Aviv University
BRICUP sends open letter to Nadine Gordimer posted 15 April 08
BRICUP sends an open letter to Nadine Gordimer deploring her decision to participate in the International Writers' Festival in Israel in May.
Take Archaeology in Jerusalem out of the Hands of Elad
Posted 14 April 08
For nearly a decade, all archaeological work in the Wadi Hilwe area of Silwan in East Jerusalem—that is, the City of David, the core of ancient Jerusalem and one of the most sensitive archaeological sites in Israel—has been controlled by Elad, an organization of right-wing Israeli settlers. Read more details and sign the petition
UCU announces details of tour of Palestinan academics: Revised 22 May 08
UCU have posted details of the re-arranged tour of Palestinian academics, as mandated by 2007 congress on their website
UCU have published their account of the tour with a programme for follow up action
Breaking News: Posted 27th Feb 08
LSE students vote for divestment
Breaking News:
General Union of Palestine Workers endorses BDS
original
text -PDF Document
Posted: 27th Feb 2008
Israel cooks up secret research security deal with Europe
Israel's
new security deal _ Word Document
Posted: 25th Feb 2008
Palestinian academic tour to go ahead! The postponed tour is taking place at he end of April - UCU branches wanting to invite Palestinian academics to visit and discuss conditions under occupation and their responses should contact UCU Head Office as soon as possible.
Posted: 27.02.08
Appeal to U2's Bono: It's all About Justice - Don't Honor Israel!
PACBI appeals to Bono to refuse to attend Israel's 60th celebrations.
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here to read - www.pacbi.org
