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BRICUP

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.
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BRICUP Newsletter

Latest Newsletter

Previous editions
BRICUP Newsletter 1
BRICUP Newsletter 2

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

  1. Lisa Taraki speaking at Lambeth College on 25 April 2008
  2. Samia al Botmeh in conversation with Mike Cushman on 27 April 2008
  3. 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: Posted 14 April 08

UCU have posted details of the re-arranged tour of Palestinian academics, as mandated by 2007 congress on their website

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.
Click here to read - www.pacbi.org

Why Boycott?

Arrest

The construction of the Israeli wall across and through Palestinian land in flagrant violation of the rulings of the International Court and despite international condemnation, notably from the EU, is making everyday life, to say nothing of teaching and research, ever more difficult for our Palestinian colleagues. . . . .
Why Boycott page

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What's Coming Up?

ABUSES OF MEDICAL CARE UNDER ISRAELI OCCUPATION
Panel Discussion with Physicians for Human Rights-Israel

Royal Society of Medicine
1 Wimpole St, London, W.1

Tuesday 29 April, 6.15—9.00
What's Coming Up page