CAMPAIGN IN DEFENCE OF CAMPUS FREEDOMS

PALESTINE

DEFEND THE PALESTINIAN VOICE

‘NO!’ TO CENSORSHIP AND SUPPRESSION

ON UK CAMPUSES

for Freedom of Palestine Advocacy on UK campuses

for Academic Freedom to Teach and Research on the Conflict

        SUPPRESSION OF THE PALESTINIAN VOICE IN UK UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES and INTERFERENCE IN TEACHING AND RESEARCH

Colleagues will have registered the disturbing growth of political suppression of Palestine advocacy on UK campuses.

Student societies are being deregistered

Students are being subjected to disciplinary investigations

Demonstrations are being outlawed

Meetings are being banned on institutional property

Lectures from visiting professors are being banned

Staff articles are being censored

Staff social media posts are being monitored

Academic staff are under pressure for lectures and readings

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BRICUP, with a number of partner organisations, is launching a campaign in defence of campus freedoms –

  • freedom to teach and research on Middle East conflicts without fear of external or internal political interference; and
  • freedom of students and staff to support calls for Palestinian liberation on campuses, to oppose Israeli policies, and to criticise the political ideology of Zionism

LAUNCH MEETING 25 January in-person in London with Live Streaming to all UK Institutions 

PREPARATORY MEETING for campus groups Thursday 7 December

FULL DETAILS TO FOLLOW

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