OU managers cravenly yield to UKLFI, academics around the world are vigorously pushing back. Sign the petition!

13 February 2026

Even after more than two years of Israel’s genocidal aggression in Gaza it seems that managers at some British universities are still only half aware that Israel’s supporters are doing everything they can to suppress the truth about the land theft, ethnic cleansing, mass hostage taking and genocide taking place in Gaza and the OPT. OU senior managers, disregarding their obligation to safeguard free speech, casually failing to seek the advice of qualified faculty, and apparently sympathetic to the views of a foreign lobby group, yielded to a request from UK Lawyers for Israel and agreed to censure language used by its faculty and students about Palestine. Faculty at the OU are now pushing back and invite academics at the OU and elsewhere to sign their petition set out below.

Open Letter to OU Vice-Chancellor

Open Letter to the Vice‑Chancellor of The Open University, UK: Call for Urgent Compliance Action under the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 regarding “Ancient Palestine”

Sign here

12 February 2026

Dear Vice‑Chancellor of The Open University,

We, the undersigned, write with profound concern to demand an urgent public retraction of all commitments The Open University in the UK (OU) has made to UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI). These include commitments to not use the term “ancient Palestine” in future learning materials and to add caveats to existing content on grounds of the term being newly “problematic.” A Freedom of Information request confirms the OU’s commitments as stated on UKLFI’s website.

There is a significant risk that these commitments could be interpreted as inconsistent with the OU’s statutory duties under the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 (HEFSA). The commitments expose staff to harassment, set harmful precedents for further attacks on academic freedom, and make the OU complicit in the spread of disinformation and a politically motivated attempt to erase Palestine from history. Erasing historical facts can help legitimise Israel’s ongoing and unlawful annexation of Palestinian territories. Moreover, evidence of external interference in academic affairs damages institutional reputation, undermines academic integrity, weakens public trust and discourages open debate, which is central to Universities’ mission. We therefore ask the Vice-Chancellor to urgently and fully retract all commitments the OU has made to UKLFI.

The Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 (HEFSA) exists precisely to protect providers and their constituents (students, staff and visiting speakers) against the ideological influence of external lobby groups. UKLFI is a known lobbying entity under investigation for “strategic lawsuits against public participation (slapps)” […] intended to limit freedom of expression on matters of public interest”, as reported in The Guardian, with its charitable wing also under investigation. Under the duties imposed by HEFSA, and in accordance with the Regulator’s Framework for Assessment, UKLFI’s request should have been promptly rejected with no concessions made. We remind the Vice-Chancellor of established interpretations of the Equality Act (2010), and that academic content should not be restricted or modified on the basis of offence, and this includes offence purported by an external lobbying entity.

Requirements to add context notes as a result of external pressure amounts to compelling academics to frame or present their teaching in a way that reflects the ideological preference of an external lobby group, rather than their own professional judgment. The Office for Students’ Regulatory Advice, Section 3, Point 207 makes clear that “[a]cademic staff should not be constrained or pressured in their teaching to endorse or reject particular value judgements.” Proscription of an academically recognised term (“ancient Palestine”) as a result of external pressure not only constitutes downright censorship but could have a chilling effect on lawful speech and academic freedom.

Despite repeated appeals from concerned members of staff for a public statement, the OU’s continued public silence has allowed its ill-judged commitments and associated disinformation to spread across national and international media, The Telegraph, Israel National News, Talk TV, and others.

Under the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023, Vice-Chancellors have a ”positive duty” to take “reasonably practicable steps” to secure and protect lawful speech and academic freedom from improper external influence, with risk of financial penalties for non‑compliance. We therefore respectfully request you fully, publicly and urgently retract all commitments made to UKLFI, issue a public defence of the historical accuracy and importance of the term “ancient Palestine”, and reaffirm the University’s commitment to its statutory duties under the HEFSA. To occasion institutional learning and reduce risk of recurrence, we also demand a thorough, independent inquiry into how this incident occurred.

Sincerely,
The undersigned

Please Sign our Letter Here: https://forms.gle/BGkJBD5YiPheedf99 (names will be updated online regularly)

#	Title	Name	Position	Affiliation	Additional information
1	Prof.	Kristina Hultgren	Professor of Sociolinguistics, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow	The Open University, UK	PI of UKRI-funded project Universities Fit for the Future? Democratising Governance in Neoliberalised Higher Education
2	Prof.	Nur Masalha	Formerly Director of the Centre of Religion and History	St. Mary’s University, UK	Author of Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History
3	Prof.	Tahrir Hamdi	Director of Arab Open University in Jordan	Arab Open University, Jordan	Author of Imagining Palestine
4	Dr.	Marchella Ward	Lecturer in Classical Studies	The Open University, UK	Author of ‘How the Past Became a Weapon of Genocide in Palestine’, see also ‘Israel is Trying to Rewrite History – and British Institutions Risk Helping them Do It.’
5	Prof.	Rashid Khalidi	Edward Said Professor Emeritus of Modern Arab Studies	History Department, Columbia University, US	Author of 8 books, including The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine, see also: Rashid Khalidi in The Guardian
6	Prof.	Ilan Pappé	Professor, Israeli Historian and Political Scientist, Founder and Co-Director of The European Centre for Palestine Studies	University of Exeter, UK	Author of numerous works on Israel/Palestine, including The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine; Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic; Ten Myths about Israel
7	Prof.	Avi Shlaim	Emeritus Professor of International Relations, Israeli British Historian, Fellow of the British Academy	Oxford University, UK	Author of numerous works, including The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World, War and Peace in the Middle East: A Concise History
8	Prof.	Sari Hanafi	Professor of Sociology, Chair of the Islamic Studies program, Lifetime Fellow of the British Academy, former President of International Sociological Association	American University of Beirut, Lebanon	Author/editor of numerous books on the Middle East, including the Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East; UNRWA and Palestinian Refugees.
9	Dr.	Ramzy Baroud	American-Palestinian journalist and writer; Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow	Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA) at Istanbul Zaim University (IZU), Türkiye	Author of numerous works, including Before the Flood.
10	Prof.	Yanis Varoufakis	Professor of Economics, Honorary Professor of Political Economy, Honoris Causa Professor of Law, Economics and Finance, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Political Economy	University of Athens, Greece; University of Sydney, Australia; The International University College of Torino, Italy; Kings College, University of London, UK	Former Minister of Finance in Greece; author of numerous works, including Raise your Soul: A Personal History of Resistance; Secretary-General of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025.
11		Raja Shehadeh	Lawyer and Author, Human Rights Activist	None	Author of numerous works on Israel/Palestine, including Going Home: A Walk Through Fifty Years of Occupation, Forgotten: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials.
12	Prof.	Judith Butler	Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School	University of California, Berkeley	Author of Gender Trouble; Bodies that Matter
13	Prof.	Karma Nabulsi	Emeritus Fellow in Politics and International Relations	University of Oxford, UK	Author of The Invisible History: Prevent and the Persistance of Empire
14	Dr	Carmen Caruso	Academic Researcher and Librarian	University of Roehampton, UK	Author of a number of publications regarding the MENA region, including ‘Sixteenth Century Jerusalem: A Model of Coexistence?’
15	Prof	Rachad Antonius	Professor Emeritus	Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada	Expert on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, author of numerous works, including Identity, ‘race’, freedom of expression
16	Prof.	Laleh Khalili	Al Qasimi Professor of Gulf Studies	Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, UK	Author of Sinews of War and Trade; Corporeal Life of Seafaring; Extractive Capitalism
17	Rt Hon	Jeremy Corbyn	British Politician	Independent MP for Islington North since 1983
18	Dr	Julia Molinari	Lecturer in Professional Academic Communication in English	The Open University, UK	Member of The Open University Palestine Solidarity Group
19	Prof.	Sindre Bangstad	Research Professor	KIFO Institute For Church, Religion and Worldview Research, Oslo, Norway	Author of ‘The Palestine Exception to Academic Freedom and the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism’
20	Prof.	Neve Gordon	Professor of International Law and Human Rights	Queen Mary University of London, UK	Author of ‘The weaponisation of antisemitism: The Jewish Chronicle and the production of a moral panic’
21	Prof.	James Dickins	Chair of the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (Emeritus Professor of Arabic)	University of Leeds, UK	British Committee for the Universities of Palestine
22	Dr	Roberto De Vogli	Associate Professor	Università degli studi di Padova, Italy	Author of Lancet-article ‘Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza’
23	Prof.	Ariella Aïsha Azoulay	Author, art curator and filmmaker; Professor of Comparative Literature and Modern Culture and Media	Brown University, US	Author of Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism; From Palestine to Israel; The One State Condition.
24	Dr	Edward Skidelsky	Lecturer in Philosophy	University of Exeter, UK	Director of the Committee for Academic Freedom
25	Prof.	Elton Barker	Professor of Greek Literature and Culture	The Open University, UK	Author of ‘New Worlds from Old Texts: Revisiting Ancient Space and Place’
26	Prof.	Nicola Pratt	Professor of the International Politics of the Middle East	University of Warwick, UK	Almost 30 years of experience researching and teaching about the Middle East, including specialist courses on the history and politics of Israel-Palestine
27	Prof.	David Mond	Emeritus Professor of Mathematics	University of Warwick, UK	Campaign Against Misrepresentation in Public Affairs, Information and News, CAMPAIN. British Jew.
28	Prof.	Rebecca Ruth Gould	Distinguished Professor of Comparative Poetics and Global Politics	SOAS, University of London, UK	Author of Erasing Palestine: Free Speech and Palestinian Freedom
29	Prof.	Alana Lentin	Professor of Cultural and Social Analysis	Western Sydney University, Australia	Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism
30	Prof.	Alison Phipps	Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies	University of Glasgow	UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Education, Languages and Arts
31	Dr	Maria Relaki	Associate Lecturer/Teaching Associate in Archeology	The Open University/University of Sheffield, UK	Editor of From the Foundations to the Legacy of Minoan Archaeology
32	Dr	Tracie Farrell	Senior Research Fellow, UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship	The Open University, UK	PI of UKRI-funded project Shifting Power
33	Dr.	Jonathan Montomoli	Medical Doctor	Romagna Local Health Authority, Italy	Author of Lancet-article ‘Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza’ ICM Letter ‘From the pandemic to a war: a call for solidarity with all healthcare workers ’
34	Dr	Eleni Dimou	Senior Lecturer in Criminology	Open University, UK	Member of The Open University Palestine Solidarity Group
35	Dr	Ben Wiedel-Kaufmann	Lecturer in Art History	The Open University, UK	Member of The Open University Palestine Solidarity Group; Open University UCU Executive Committee (Ordinary Member); Secretary, Lambeth Trades Union Council
36	Dr	Aneeza Pervez	Betty Behrens Research Fellow and Associate Lecturer	University of Cambridge and The Open University	Author of Witnessing silence: the Palestinian genocide, institutional complicity, and the politics of knowledge
37	Dr	Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores	Assistant Professor of Curriculum Studies	Texas Tech University, US	Author of ‘The Coloniality of Academic Freedom and the Palestine Exception’
38	Dr	Jakob Bro-Jorgensen	Senior Lecturer	University of Liverpool, UK	Director, BEAST (Biodiversity in Egyptian Archaeology during Societal Transitions)
39	Prof.	Seth Anziska	Mohamed S. Farsi-Lindenbaum Professor of Jewish-Muslim Relations	University College London, UK	Author of Preventing Palestine; Chair of UCL Academic Board Working Group on Racism and Prejudice (2020-2021)
40	Dr	Kamil Mahdi	Retired Director of Gulf Studies	University of Exeter, UK	Former Director of Center for Gulf Studies & of Middle East Studies programmes
41	Prof.	Mark Berry	Professor of Music and Intellectual History	Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
42	Dr	Doerthe Rosenow	Lecturer in International Relations	King’s College London, UK
43	Dr	Terri Ginsberg	Assistant Teaching Professor, Cinema and Media Studies	Rutgers University, USA	Advisory Board, Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism
44	Dr.	Syed Mustafa Ali	Lecturer in Computing	The Open University, UK	Member of The Open University Palestine Solidarity Group
45	Dr	Salma Al-Nims	Chief Consulting Officer	Inclusive Scopes Advisors	Women, Peace and Security
46	Prof.	Penny Green	Professor of Law and Globalisation	Queen Mary University of London, UK
47	Dr	Clive Gabay	Reader in International Politics	Queen Mary University of London, UK	PhD Open University (2010); Author of A Family in Fragments: Race, Zionism and Retrievable Futures (Forthcoming with Rutgers University Press)
48	Dr	Lewis Turner	Senior Lecturer in International Politics	Newcastle University, UK
49	Mr	Ivan Finney	Associate Lecturer (Geology) and Curriculum Manager	The Open University, UK	Undergraduate dissertation on the Palestine-Israel conflict, lived and worked in Palestine-Israel in 1982 witnessing the military action of Israel in invading Lebanon
50	Dr	Emma Barker	Senior Lecturer	The Open University, UK
51	Prof.	David Johnson	Emeritus Professor	The Open University, UK
52	Prof.	Suman Gupta	Professor of Literature and Cultural History	The Open University, UK
53		Ray Corrigan	Senior Lecturer in Computing & Communications	The Open University, UK
54		Simon Carter	Senior Lecturer in Sociology	The Open University, UK
55	Dr	Kim Charnley	Senior Lecturer Art History	The Open University, UK
56	Prof.	Chris Cunneen	Professor of Criminology	Jumbunna Institute for indigenous Education and Research, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
57	Prof.	Thalia Anthony	Professor of Law	University of Technology Sydney, Australia
58	Dr	Lucy Hollingworth	Staff Tutor in Music	The Open University, UK
59	Prof	Carol Azumah Dennis	Professor of Education, Policy and Practice	The Open University, UK
60	Prof.	Steve Tombs	Emeritus Professor	The Open University, UK
61		Farnaz Rais	Stakeholder Engagement & Delivery Lead	The Open University, UK
62	Dr	Kristen Reid	Senior Lecturer	The Open University, UK
63	Ms	Alison Higgs	Senior Lecturer, Social Work	The Open University, UK
64	Mrs	Lubna Asif	Associate Editor	The Open University, UK
65	Dr	Nela Smolović Jones	Senior Lecturer in Organization Studies	The Open University, UK
66		Allie Kerper	Development Editor	The Open University, UK	OU UCU Rep for Learner and Discovery Services
67	Dr	George Sandifer-Smith	Lecturer in Creative, Lifelong Learning Tutor	The Open University, UK and Aberystwyth University, UK
68	Dr	Barry Powell	Associate Lecturer	The Open University, UK
69		Rachel Garnham	Senior Manager, Office of PVC (Students)	The Open University, UK
70	Ms	Jackie Andrew-Barrett	MSC Alumna of OU and previous Assistant Tutor	The Open University, UK
71		Imogen Charnley	Development Editor	The Open University, UK
72		Sonia Hawkey	Development Editor	The Open University, UK
73		Lizzie Evans	Development Editor	The Open University, UK
74	Dr	Mayssoun Zucaria	Reader in Development Studies	King’s College, London, UK
75	Dr	Warren Carter	Lecturer/Staff Tutor	The Open University, UK
76	Mrs	Celeste Thompson	Editor (Production)	The Open University, UK
77	Dr	Amanda Sciampacone	Lecturer in Art History	The Open University, UK
78	Dr	Sandy Fraser	Senior Lecturer Health and Social Care	The Open University, UK
79		Suresh T. Nesaratnam	Retired Senior Lecturer in Environmental Engineering	The Open University, UK
80		Daniela Ciccarello	Quality Coordinator	The Open University, UK	OU Palestine Solidarity Group
81	Prof.	Rosalind Edwards	Professor of Sociology	University of Southampton, UK	British Jewish academic
82	Dr	Ece Kocabicak	Senior Lecturer	The Open University, UK	Member of The Open University Palestine Solidarity Group
83	Ms	Olwyn O’Malley	Associate Head of School for Students and Tuition, Languages and Applied Linguistics	The Open University, UK	Member of The Open University Palestine Solidarity Group
84	Mr	Martin Ferns	OU alumnus (MEd) and retired staff member	Member of The Open University Palestine Solidarity Group	Former OU Partnership Manager for Arab Open University partnership
85		Katy Laythorne	Development Editor	The Open University, UK
86	Dr	Amy Jane Barnes	Senior Lecturer and Staff Tutor in Art History	The Open University, UK
87		David Chapman	Retired Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing and Communications	The Open University, UK
88	Mrs	Elizabeth Hindle	Administrator	The Open University, UK
89	Dr	Andrew Murray	Lecturer in Art History	The Open University, UK
90	Ms	Christina Collins	Product Owner	The Open University, UK
91		Anusha Patel	Student-activist	OU Student	Co-chair of the Open University Friends of Palestine student club
92	Mr	Saleem Rashid	Associate Lecturer	The Open University, UK
93	Drs	Emilie Gossye	PhD researcher in Criminology	Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
94	Ms	Lynn Rooney	Associate Lecturer	The Open University, UK
95	Ms	Patricia McCarthy	Curriculum Manager (retired)	The Open University, UK
96		Helen Timlin	Library Assistant	The Open University, UK	Member of The Open University Palestine Solidarity Group
97		Fiona Hobden	Staff Tutor & Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies	The Open University, UK
98	Prof.	Stephen Smith	Emeritus Fellow and Professor of HIstory	All Souls College, Oxford, UK
99		Brunilda Pali	Assistant Professor	University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
100		Frank Monaghan	Honorary Associate, School of Languages and Applied Linguistics	The Open University, UK
101		Anna Judd-Yelland	Learning Designer LDA	The Open University, UK	Member of the OU Palestine Solidarity Group
102		Amy Charlesworth	Lecturer	The Open University, UK
103	Dr	Kathryn Medien	Senior Lecturer	The Open University, UK
104		Barbara Spicer	Postgraduate Researchers	The Open University, UK
105	Dr	Sadaf Rizvi	Associate Lecturer	The Open University, UK
106		Abbé Farrell	Post Graduate Student	The Open University, UK
107	Miss	Rowan Damaschin	Undergraduate and prospective OU Student	The Open University, UK
108		Arlene Thomas- Ramasut	Lecturer in Education (retired)	Cardiff University, UK
109	Mr		History student	The Open University, UK
110	Prof	Ben Rogaly	Emeritus Professor of Geography	University of Sussex, UK
111	Dr	Caroline Bennett	Assistant Professor in Anthropology and International Development	University of Sussex, UK
112	Dr.	Lambros Fatsis	Senior Lecturer in Criminology	City St George’s University of London, UK
113	Dr	Amjad Alsyouf	Dean of Scientific Research	Arab Open University, Jordan
114	Prof.	Jane Poyner	Professor	University of Exeter, UK	South African literature & culture (apartheid and post-apartheid); World literature
115	Dr	Joe Turner	Senior Lecturer in International Politics	University of York, UK
116	Dr	Caitlin Biddolph	Lecturer in International Relations	University of Technology Sydney, Australia
117	Prof	mitra tabizian	Professor of Photography	University of Westminster, UK	Mitra Tabrizian
118	Prof.	Richard Hall	Professor of Education and Technology	De Montfort University, UK
119	Dr	Afaf Jabiri	Senior Lecturer	University of East London, UK
120	Prof	Suzanne Aspden	Associate Professor	University of Oxford, UK
121	Ms	Ana Velasco	Research Associate	University of Bremen, Germany
122	Dr	Dalia Mostafa	Honorary Research Fellow	University of Manchester, UK
123	Prof.	John Holmwood	Emeritus Professor of Sociology	University of Nottingham, UK
124	Dr	Sami Al-Khawaldeh	Assistant Professor of Linguistics	Arab Open University, Jordan
125	Prof.	Alfredo Saad Filho	Professor of International Political Economy	Queen’s University Belfast, UK
126	Dr	Petter Ericson	Staff scientist	Umeå University, Sweden
127	Dr	Norma Rantisi	Professor of Geography & Planning	Concordia University, Canada
128	Dr	Lesley Doyle	Senior Lecturer in Education	University of Glasgow, UK
129	Dr	Anne-Noel Samaha	Professor of Pharmacology & Physiology	Université de Montréal, Canada
130	Dr	Dror Warschawski	Research Associate in Biophysics	Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
131	Dr	Carlos Azevedo	Researcher	Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies	A former PhD student and Visiting Fellow at The Open University and a former member of The Open University Palestine Solidarity Group
132	Dr	Iman Hamam	Independent Scholar
133		Ben Pietras	Senior Research Platforms Engineer	University of Liverpool, UK
134	Dr	Peaks Krafft	Lecturer in Sociology	University of Edinburgh, UK
135	Ms	Gabriella Ibba	PhD candidate	University of East London, UK
136		Mays Ishnaiwer	Activist	Independent
137		Shaista Chishty	PhD student	Cardiff University, UK
138	Dr	Simone Rowe	Lecturer, Social Work	Australian Catholic University, Australia	Anti-genocidal, Decarceral and Anti-Colonial Criminologies (ADAC) Network, Member
139	Dr	Natalia Maystorovich Chulio	Teaching Fellow in Criminology	The University of New South Wales	ISA RC48 Necropolitics of Mass Violence Research Network Coordinator
140	Dr	Ola Kittaneh	Assistant Professor of English Literature	Arab Open University, Jordan
141	Dr	Maria Gianacopoulos	Associate Professor	University of New South Wales, Australia	Director Centre for Criminology Law and Justice
142	Prof.	Jude McCulloch	Professor Emerita	Monash University, Australia
143	Prof.	Elena Marchetti	Professor	Griffith University, Australia
144	Dr	Samuel Lawton	Lecturer	University of Glasgow, UK
145		Sharon Hartles	Alumna	The Open University, UK
146	Prof.	Murray Lee	Professor of Criminology	University of Sydney, Australia
147	Dr	Taylor G. Hill	Lecturer in Psychology	University of Dundee, UK
148		Jenna Mizzi	Research Associate	Flinders University, Australia
149		Sanna Ryynänen	PhD Researcher	University of Jyväskylä	Research interests: racism and coloniality
150	Mr	Daniel Jeffery	Vice Chair (Lambeth UNISON)	UNISON
151	Dr	Nancy Tamimi	Senior Lecturer	King’s College London, UK
152	Dr.	Sadia Habib	Senior Lecturer	University of Manchester, UK
153		Lila Tamea	PhD Candidate	Liverpool John Moores University, UK
154	Dr	Kevin Biderman	Lecturer (UAL)	UAL UCU, UK
155	Mrs	Fatimah Boateng	Local Government Worker	Lambeth LA, UK
156		William Crosby	Lecturer in Music and Media Studies	Anglia Ruskin University, UK	UCU Rep / Doctoral Researcher at University of the Arts, London
157	Miss	Antonia Listrat	Student Union President	University of Birmingham Guild of Students, UK
158	Dr	Lana Tatour	Senior Lecturer in Global Development	University of New South Wales, Australia
159	Dr	Antje Deckert	Associate Professor	Auckland University of Technology, Australia	Co-editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Decolonisation of Criminology and Justice
160	Dr	Naama Carlin	Senior Lecturer	University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia
161	Miss	Faiza Abdulkadir	MPhil/PhD Doctoral Researcher	Birkbeck, University of London, UK
162	Prof	James Dickins	Professor of Arabic (Emeritus)	University of Leeds, UK
163	Dr	Nick Riemer	Senior Lecturer, Departments of English and Writing and Linguistics	University of Sydney, Australia
164	Mr	Jeremy Drinkall	Retired educator	UNISON, UK
165	Dr	Katharine Johnston	Senior Lecturer	University of Lincoln, UK
166	Mr	Mike Cushman	Research Fellow (rtd)	London School of Economics, UK
167	Dr	Alice Mills	Associate Professor	University of Auckland, New Zealand
168	Dr	Emily Clifford	Lecturer	City St George’s, University of London, UK
169		Jessie Yeung	International Students Officer	Bristol SU, UK
170	Ms	Jocelyn Rhoda	UNISON shop steward in Children’s social care	UNISON, UK
171	Prof	Miriam David	Professor Emerita, Sociology of Education	University College London Institute of Education	Editor, Sage Encyclopaedia of Higher Education (4 volumes)
172		Luka CJ	Student-activist	OU Student, The Open University, UK	Chair of the OU Friends of Palestine student group
173		Jan O’Malley	Activist	Lambeth and Southwark Palestine Solidarity Campaign
174	Miss	Thulile Mazosiwe	Student	UAL Pro-Palestine group
175	Miss	Hilary James	OU Student	The Open University, UK
176	Mr	Steven McCubbin	Activist	Milton Keynes branch of Palestine Solidarity Campaign
177	Mrs	Sara Vaghefian	Lecturer	Central Saint Martins, UAL
178	Mr	John Lardner	Retired History Teacher	Defend Our Juries	Poetry, Fascism: its psychological, sociological and historical significance (and dangers).
179	Dr	Malcolm MacLean	Academic Director, Doctoral College/Hon Associate Professor	University Of Wales Trinity St David/The University of Queensland, Australia	Historian with work focused on anti-apartheid struggles and cultural boycotts
180		Shyrina Rantisi	Local Authority Worker	Lambeth Unison, UK
181		Cara Evelyn	Student	The Open University, UK
182		Megan Champion	Student	The Open University, UK
183		Natalia Espinosa Correa	Student	The Open University, UK
184		Elly Ní Fhaoláin	Member GMB	UWU
185		Eden byrne	Student	The Open University, UK
186		Ioanna Kalogeraki	Student	The Open University, UK
187		Nickla Lamb	Arts and Humanities Student	The Open University, UK
188	Miss	Amaya Nain-Laycock	Student	NA
189	Prof.	Keith Attenborough	Emeritus Professor	The Open University, UK
190		Astrid Coppock	Alumnus	The Open University, UK
191		Lara Krause-Alzaidi	Assistant Professor	Leipzig University, Germany
192	Dr	Prithvi Shrestha	Senior Lecturer in English Language and Applied Linguistics	The Open University, UK
193		Marie Suard	Social Psychology Student	The Open University, UK
194		Ana Beatriz Garcia	Student	The Open University, UK
195		Luay Salman	Associate Lecturer (STEM)	The Open University, UK
196	Dr	Ahmed Tarek	Research Fellow	CERN, Switzerland
197	Prof.	Alessandro Ferretti	Associate Professor	Università di Torino, Italy	INFN
198	Dr	Bill Guariento	Senior Lecturer, English Language and Linguistics	Northumbria University, UK
199	Prof.	Miguel Pérez-Milans	Professor of Language, Discourse and Communication	University College London, UK
200	Prof.	Lauren Hall-Lew	Personal Chair in Sociolinguistics	The University of Edinburgh, UK
201	Prof.	John Gray	Professor of Applied Linguistics and Education	University College London, UK
202	Mx	Kahlo Demmenie	Student	The Open University, UK	Criminology and Psychology
203	Prof.	Theresa Lillis	Professor Emerita, English Language and Linguistics	WELS, The Open University, UK
204		Colette Ansell	Student
205	Dr	Deirdre Byrne	Staff Researcher	Atlantic Technological University, Ireland, UK
206	Prof.	Miguel Fuster	Professor of English Linguistics	University of Valencia, Spain	Researcher in Corpus Linguistics
207	Dr	Steffen Hope	Researcher	University of Bergen, Norway
208	Dr	Giuliana Ferri	Associate Professor	University College London, UK
209	Dr	Kate Mathis	Lecturer in Celtic	University of Edinburgh, UK
210	Prof.	John P. O’Regan	Deputy Director, International Centre for Intercultural Studies	University College London, UK
211	Dr	Gina Gwenffrewi	Lecturer in Culture and Media, Trans and Queer Studies	University of Edinburgh, UK
212	Mrs	Nikki Murphy	Teacher	None
213	Dr	Tim Hammond	Lecturer in English Literature	The Open University, UK
214	Mrs	Eve McGowan	Teacher/Lawyer	No university
215		Anna Lilley	Open University undergraduate student	The Open University, UK
216		Taylor Gray	Assistant Research Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Jewish Studies	Penn State, U.S., University of St Andrews, UK alumn	Biblical Scholar
217	Dr	Ian Poole	Independent Writer	None	Research into early Christianity
218	Dr	Susan Poole	Self-employed	Liverpool University, UK	PhD Architectural History
219		Pauline Lybert	Concerned human	Liverpool John Moores University, UK
220	Dr	Nicholas S. M. Matheou	Lecturer in Global Medieval History	University of Edinburgh, UK
221	Dr	Jeremy Dell	Lecturer in African History	University of Edinburgh, UK
222	Prof.	John Clarke	Emeritus Professor of Social Policy	The Open University, UK
223	Prof.	Quentin Williams	Director, Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research (CMDR)	University of Western Cape, South Africa
224	Mrs	Gill Boden	Retired	Cardiff University, UK
225		Yarden Azoulay Katz	Assistant Professor	University of Michigan
226		Michael Sweeney	Student	The Open University
227		Luan Carey	UG Student	University of Edinburgh, UK
228	Prof.	Ann Sheffield	Professor Emerita of Chemistry	Allegheny College, US
229	Dr	Geetha Reddy	Senior Lecturer	The Open University, UK
230	Dr	David g. Robertson	Senior Lecturer	The Open University, Religious Studies
231	Ms	Majella Kavanagh	Associate Lecturer	WELS, The Open University
232	Dr	Christine Plastow	Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies	The Open University, UK
233	Dr	Niall Oddy	Staff Tutor in History	The Open University, UK
234	Dr	Sinead Eccles	Staff Tutor	The Open University, UK	Member of the Palestinian Solidarity Group
235	Prof	David Block	Honorary Professor in Sociolinguistics	Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
236	Dr	James Dooley	Lecturer in Music Technology	The Open University, UK
237	Dr	Anthony Howell	Staff Tutor	The Open University, UK
238	Mrs	Lucy Sledge		University of Cumbria, UK
239	Dr	Naomi Barker	Senior Lecturer in Music	The Open University, UK
240	Dr	Dogan Yuksel	Research Fellow	The Open University, UK
241	Dr	Jaspal Singh	Associate Lecturer	University of the West of England, UK
242	Dr	Bethan Michael-Fox	Staff Tutor	The Open University, UK
243	Prof.	Orri Vésteinsson	Professor of Archeology	University of Iceland, Iceland
244	Dr	Paul Breen	Senior Digital Learning Developer	University College London, UK	Ed Tech and teacher development; Social Justice
245	Prof	David Kazanjian	Department of English and Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory	University of Pennsylvania, US
246	Ma	Felicia M. B. Campos	History Tutor	University of Edinburgh, UK
247	Dr	Angeliki Lymberopoulou	Senior Lecturer in Art History	The Open University, UK
248	Prof.	Mimi Tatlow-Golden	Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies of Childhood and Youth	The Open University, UK
249	Dr	Robert Boyce	Emeritus Reader	London School of Economics, UK	Secretary, British Committee for the Universities of Palestine
250	Dr	Stuart McKie	Lecturer in Ancient History/Associate Lecturer	University of Exeter/The Open University, UK
251		Marino Bertuccelli	Student	The Open University, UK	History and Politics Student
252	Dr	Cheona Putter	Associate Lecturer	The Open University, UK	UCU
253		Charlotte Berwick	Doctor	None
254	Mr	Patrick McMullan	NA	NA
255	Prof.	Byron Dueck	Professor of Music	The Open University, UK
256		Chris Downs	Associate Lecturer	The Open University, UK
257	Dr	Claire Launchbury	Visiting Fellow	University of Leeds, UK
258		Nani	Student	The Open University, UK
259	Prof.	Rebecca Earl	Professor in History	University of Warwick, UK
260	Dr	Dan Stewart	Associate Professor of Ancient History	University of Leicester, UK
261	Dr	Mark Abel	Senior Lecturer	University of Brighton, UK
262	Dr	Lucia Pradella	Reader in International Political Economy	King’s College, London, UK
263	Prof.	Raphael Salkie	Emeritus Professor of Language Studies	University of Brighton, UK	Language and Law.
264	Prof.	Ursula Rothe	Professor of Roman Archeology and History	Classical Studies, The Open University UK
265	Prof.	Craig Brandist	Professor of Cultural Theory and Intellectual History	University of Sheffield, UK
266	Dr	Marie Thompson	Senior Lecturer in Popular Music	The Open University, UK
267	Dr	Baraa Khuder	Senior Lecturer	Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
268	Dr	Peter E Jones	Emeritus Fellow	Sheffield Hallam University, UK
269	Dr	Gillian Scott	Retired Lecturer	University of Brighton, UK	UCU Retired
270	Prof.	Salim	National Research Foundation Chair	University of Johannesburg, South Africa
271	Prof	Malose Langa	Professor	University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
272	Dr	Hylton White	Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology	University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
273	Dr	Shuaib Manjra	Honorary Senior Lecturer	University of Cape Town, South Africa
274		Aleks Palanac	Head of Sanctuary	University of Leicester, UK
275	Dr	Jane Quin	Aged-out academic	None
276	Dr	Rinella Cere	Reader in Media and Cultural Studies	Sheffield Hallam University, UK
277	Dr	Lisa Fitzpatrick	Senior Lecturer in Drama	Ulster University, UK
278	Prof.	Alex Tickell	Professor of Global Literatures in English	The Open University, UK
279	Dr	Zimitri Erasmus	Associate Professor	University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
280	Dr	Saajidha Sader	Academic	University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), South Africa	Coordinator of the annual UKZN Decoloniality School
281	Prof.	Graham Smith	Professor of Oral History	Newcastle University, UK
282	Dr	Zadoc Nava	Associate Lecturer	University of the Arts London, UK
283	Dr	Erin Geraghty	Postdoctoral Associate in History	The Open University, UK
284	Prof.	Mica Nava	Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies	University of East London, UK
285	Dr	Brian Kelly	Reader in History	Queen’s University Belfast, UK	Birzeit University PALS Fellow, 2024-25
286	Ms	Noreen McGowan	Student	The Open University, UK	Health and Wellbeing
287	Dr	Anupama Ranawana	Research Associate	Durham University, UK
288	Dr	Jonte Hance	Lecturer	Newcastle University, UK
289	Mr	Tim Stephens	Senior Education Developer	University of the Arts, London, UK
290	Dr	Marika Asgari	Lecturer	Newcastle University, UK	Newcastle, UCU
291	Dr	Retno Larassati	Post-doctoral Research Associate	The Open University, UK
292	Prof	Björn Heile	Professor of Music	University of Glasgow, UK
293	Dr	Ted Swedenburg	Professor Emeritus	University of Arkansas, US
294	Dr	Deepa Driver	Lecturer, Governance, Financial Regulation & Riski	University of Reading
295	Dr	Christian Hogsbjerg	Senior Lecturer in Contemporary History	University of Brighton, UK
296	Prof	Izzat Darwazeh	Professor of Communications Engineering	University College London, UK
297	Dr	Saeed Abuzour	Senior Lecturer	Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
298	Ms	Geraldine Neakse	History Graduate		Pro-Palestine Activist
299	Dr	Sara MacKian	Senior Lecturer in Health & Wellbeing	The Open University, UK
300	Prof.	Ray Bush	Emeritus Professor of African Studies and Development Politics	University of Leeds	UCU and Editor, Review of African Political Economy
301	Dr	Thanasi Hassoulas	Associate Professor of Medical Education	Cardiff University, UK
302	Prof.	Martha Mundy	Emerita Professor of Anthropology	London School of Economics, UK
303	Dr	Barry Heselwood	Honorary Senior Lecturer, Linguistics and Phonetics	University of Leeds, UK
304	Ms	Geraldine Neakse	History Graduate		Pro-Palestinian Activist
305	Prof	Felia Allum	Professor of Comparative Organised Crime and Corruption	Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies, University of Bath, UK
306	Dr	Lori Watson	Lecturer	University of Edinburgh, UK	Celtic and Scottish Studies
307	Prof.	S. Sayyid	Professor of Decolonial Thought and Social Theory	University of Leeds, UK
308	Prof.	Allan Moore	Emeritus Professor	University of Surrey, UK
309	Dr	Lena Wånggren	Teaching Fellow	University of Edinburgh, UK
310	Dr	Hatem Bazian	Senior Lecturer	University of California, Berkeley
311	Dr	Sabrin Hasbun	Lecturer Creative Writing	Cardiff Met University, UK
312	Dr	Richard Gray	Independent Researcher	SOAS Alumnus
313	Dr	Robert Newton	Sr. Research Scientist, Lecturer	Columbia University, US
314		Zeerak Talat	Chancellor’s Fellow in Responsible Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence	University of Edinburgh, UK
315	Prof.	Amy Chazkel	Associate Professor of History	Columbia University, UK
316	Prof.	Janet CE Watson	Emerita Professor	University of Leeds, UK	Honorary Professor, University of St Andrews; Visiting Professor, Sultan Qaboos University. 40 years studying and writing on languages of Arabia
317	Mr	Danilo Paganelli	Student	University College London, UK
318	Prof	Alison Drew	Professor Emerita	University of York, UK
319	Dr	Mari Greenfield	Research Fellow	The Open University, UK
320	Prof.	Ania Loomba	Global Professorial Fellow QMUL	Queen Mary University, London, UK	Catherine Bryson Emerita Professor, University of Pennsylvania
321		Zina Sackur	EAP Lecturer	King’s College, London, UK
322	Prof.	Alison Buckler	Professor of International Education	The Open University, UK
323	Prof.	Suvir Kaul	A M Rosenthal Professor Emeritus	University of Pennsylvania, US	Global Visiting Professor, Queen Mary University, UK
324	Prof.	Rochelle Kapp	Emeritus Associate Professor	University of Cape Town, South Africa
325	Ms	Marie Atkinson	University of Edinburgh Alumna
326	Mr	Tom Hickey	Honorary Research Fellow	University of Brighton	Principal Lecturer and Course Leader in Philosophy and Critical Theory (rtd); University and Colleges Union (former Chair and Chief Negotiator).
327	Dr	Julia Chukwuma	Senior Lecturer in Economics	The Open University, UK
328	Prof.	Kelwyn Sole	Emeritus Professor	University of Cape Town, South Africa	Many publications: academic articles and poetry collections
329	Dr	Leena Helavaara Robertson	Associate Professor	Middlesex University, UK
330	Dr	Gerry Howley	Staff Tutor and Lecturer	The Open University, UK
331	Dr	Annapurna Menon	Teaching Associate	University of Sheffield	Sheffield, UCU
332	Dr	Jason Toynbee	Senior Lecturer, retired	The Open University, UK
333	Mr	Ben Andersen	Advanced Practitioner	Royal Holloway, London, UK
334	Prof.	Peter Hallward	Professor of Philosophy	Kingston University, London, UK
335	Dr	Lindsey Moore	Reader in Postcolonial Literatures	Lancaster University, UK
336	Dr	Dónall Mac Cathmhaoill	Lecturer	The Open University, UK
337	Dr	Sofya Shahab	Senior Lecturer in International Politics and Heritage, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow	University of Stirling, UK
338	Dr	Jonathan Gilhooly	Lecturer (retired)	University of Brighton, UK
339	Prof.	Katherine Baxter	Professor of English Literature	Northumbria University, UK
340	Prof.	Katherine Baxter	Professor of English Literature	Northumbria University
341	Dr.	Conor McCarthy	Associate Professor of English	Maynooth University, Ireland
342		Angela Garrod	Manager, Office of the PVC (Students)	BA(Hons) Theological Studies
343	Dr	Henry Dee	Research Fellow	Northumbria University, UK
344	Dr	Joe Street	Associate Professor of American Studies	Northumbria University, UK	UCU Branch Vice Chair
345	Mr	Ben Stoll	Visiting Teacher and Graduate Student	Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
346	Dr	Madeline Clements	Senior Lecturer in English Studies	Teesside University, UK
347	Ms	Ellizabeth Taylor	Retired academic	Manchester University, UK and American University in Cairo, Egypt
348	Dr	Anna Judson	Assistant Professor in Classics and Ancient History	Durham University, UK
349		Kate Oakley	Staff Tutor and Associate Lecturer	The Open University, UK
350	Prof.	John Chalcraft	Professor of Politics	London School of Economics, UK
351		Allison Drew	Professor Emerita	University of York, UK
352		Andy Stafford	Professor of French and Critical Theory	University of Leeds, UK
353	Mrs	Fariha Asghar	Assistant Professor	HED Punjab, Pakistan
354	Dr	Nicholas Taylor	Fellow	New College Edinburgh, UK	Academic Biblical Scholar
355	Dr	Katherine Parker	Cartographic Collections Manager	Royal Geographical Society, UK
356	Mr	Simon Hampshaw	Student	The Open University, UK
357	Dr	Timothy Brennan	Professor	University of Minnesota, US
358	Mrs	Margaret Clements	Retired	Graduate of OU and King’s College, London, UK
359	Mr	Mike Clements	Retired	None
360		Annabel Gottfried Cohen	PhD Student	University of Edinburgh, UK
361	Dr	Eli Jany	Recent PhD Graduate	University of Toronto, Canada
362	Prof.	Anna Stavrianakis	Professor of International Relations	University of Sussex, UK
363		Jamie Marshall	Faculty Co-ordinator	The Open University, UK
364	Prof.	Sana Salous	Chair of Communications Systems	Durham University, UK
365	Prof.	Gurminder K Bhambra	Professor of Historical Sociology	University of Sussex, UK
366	Prof.	Salwa Ismail	Professor of Politics with reference to the Middle East	SOAS, University of London, UK
367		Camila Supervielle	Education Coordinator	University of Sussex, UK
368	Dr	Paul Robert Gilbert	Education Coordinator	University of Sussex, UK
369		Nico Edwards	Postgraduate Research Associate	Newcastle University, UK
370	Dr	Alice Wilson	Associate Professor of Anthropology	University of Sussex, UK
371	Dr	David Kaposi	Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology	The Open University, UK
372	Prof.	Luc Rocher	Associate Professor	University of Oxford, UK
373	Dr	Paul Robert Gilbert	Reader in Development, Justice and Inequality	University of Sussex, UK
374	Dr	Davide Castiglione	Associate Professor	Vilnius University, Lithuania	Stylistics, linguistics, poetry
375	Dr	Glen Thompson	Research Fellow, History Department	Stellenbosch University, South Africa
376	Dr	Uri Horesh	Lecturer in Arabic	University of St. Andrews, UK
377	Dr	Daniela Soto	Postdoctoral Researcher	University of Sussex, UK
378	Prof	Peter Hick	Professor of Inclusive Education	Edge Hill University, UK
379	Prof	Philip Seargeant	Professor of Language and Communication	The Open University, UK
380	Dr	Anne-Marie Debbane	Independent Researcher	Geographers for Justice in Palestine	PhD, York University; former asst. prof. San Diego State University
381	Dr	Raoul Bianchi	Reader	Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
382	Dr	Rama Hussein	Research Associate	University of Briston, UK
383	Prof.	Leon Wainwright	Professor of Art History	The Open University, UK
384	Mrs	Alison Montague	Teaching Fellow in Italian Studies	Lancaster University, UK	Member of Lancaster and National Palestine Solidarity Campaign
385	Dr	Kevin McSorley	Senior Lecturer in Sociology	The Open University, UK
386		Tom Mudd	Reader	University of Edinburg, UK
387	Prof	Stephen Regan	Emeritus Professor	Durham University, UK	Former Lecturer in Literature, Open University
388	Ms	Vera Tamari	University Professor, Art Historian	Birzeit University, Palestine
389	Dr	Jean-Pierre Gauci	Senior Fellow and Director of Training	BIICL
390	Dr	Paul-Francois Tremlett	Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies	The Open University, UK	Religion, religious literacies, disinformation
391	Dr	Rosanna Ware	Staff Tutor Social Work	The Open University, UK
392	Prof.	Nigel Clark	Chair of Social Sustainability	Lancaster University, UK	former member of Open University Geography Dept.
393	Prof.	Saoud El Mawla	Retired	Lebanese University, Lebanon
394	Prof.	Jimena Gorfinkiel	Professor of Computational Molecular Physics	The Open University, UK
395	Prof.	Ana Deumart	Professor of Linguistics	University of Cape Town, South Africa
396	Prof.	Ahmed Elgindy	Associate Professor, Director of Studies of Arabic, Islamic, Middle Eastern and North African Studies	University of Leeds, UK	Sociology of translation
397	Prof.	Stephanie Jones	Professor of Literature and Law	University of Southampton, UK
398	Dr	Vicencio Oostra	UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, Senior Lecturer	Queen Mary University of London, UK
399	Dr	Helen Beetham	Lecturer	University of Manchester, UK
400		Pijus Girdenis	Student	The Open University, UK
401	Prof.	Peter Keogh	Professor of Health & Society	The Open University, UK
402	Prof.	Frederick Neuhouser	Professor Emeritus	Dept. of Philosophy, Barnard College, US
403	Prof.	Carlos Machado	Professor of Ancient History	University of St. Andrews, UK	I am a historian of the Roman Empire, specialised on the late antique period.
404		Nigel Jones	Post-graduate student	The Open University, UK
405	Ms	Emma Playfair	Retired Lawyer
406	Dr	Andrea Brock	Lecturer	University of Sussex, UK
407	Prof.	Roger Kemp	Emeritus Professor	Lancaster University, UK
408	Dr	Ophira Gamliel	Senior Lecturer	University of Glasgow, UK	Religious studies, Jewish studies
409	Miss	Samantha Wright	Senior Representation Officer	Open SU	Member of the OU Friends of the Palestine Solidarity Group
410		Celeb Day	Doctoral researcher	Durham University (Theology and Religion)
411	Dr	Thom Davies	Associate Professor in Geography	School of Geography, University of Nottingham	Editor of Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space
412	Prof	David Alderson	Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies	University of Manchester, UK
413		Kit Renard	Student	The Open University, UK
414		Coomerene Muilerman-Rodrigo	Doctoral Researcher	OU Student, UK
415	Dr	Philip O’Sullivan	Senior Lecturer	The Open University, UK	Member of The Open University Palestine Solidarity Group
416	Dr	Patricia Nabuco Martuscelli	Lecturer in International Relations	University of Sheffield, UK
417	Mr	Terry Brotherstone	Research Fellow Emeritus	University of Aberdeen, UK	University and College Union Scotland
418	Dr	Stasha Lauria	Lecturer	Brunel University, UK
419	Dr	Hannah Sender	Leverhulme Early Career Fellow	University of Sheffield, UK
420	Prof.	Saida Affouneh	Former Deputy president of Technical Educational Support Initiative for Higher Education Students	AN Najah National University, Palestine
421	Dr	David Toorawa	Retired Medical Practitioner	Graduate, University of London, UK
422	Mr	Ewan Mackenzie	Teacher	NASUWT, UK
423	Dr	Kalpana Wilson	Senior Lecturer	Birkbeck, University of London
424	Dr	Lesley Dawson	Retired Principal Lecturer in School of Health Professions	University of Brighton, UK	OU Graduate in Social SciencesAssociate Professor, Bethlehem University, Occupied Palestinian Territories, Faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences
425	Prof.	Rowland Atkinson	Chair in Inclusive Societies	University of Sheffield, UK
426	Mr	Bevan Cope	Project Manager	The Open University, UK
427		Miranda Pinch	Retired Social Worker	Graduate of Warwick University and The Open University, UK	British Jew and active human rights campaigner with several organisations. Producer of film ‘From Balfour to Banksy’
428		Alex Charnley	Author and Researcher	Bath University, UK
429	Ms	Lilith Roberts	PhD Student	University of Sheffield, UK
430	Prof.	Umberto Albarella	Professor of Zooarchaeology	University of Sheffield, UK	As an archaeologist and a citizen of the world, I’m offended by this political manipulation of the past
431	Dr	Laura Stanley		University of Sheffield, UK
432	Dr	Samantha Purchase	University Teaching Associate	University of Sheffield, UK	Archeology
433	Dr	Aerin Lai	Research Associate	University of Sheffield, UK
434	Mrs	Carol Mackerness	Former Student	OUPSC
435	Ms	Nishad Karim	Science Communicator	University of Leicester, UK	Physics
436	Dr	Elina Akalestou	Assistant Professor	University of Leicester, UK	Cardiovascular Sciences
437	Dr	Fatima Ali	Clinical and Professional Practice Tutor	University of College London, Medical School
438	Prof.	Patrick Alexander	Professor of Education	Oxford Brookes University, UK
439	Dr	Aspa Paltoglou	Senior Lecturer	Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
440	Miss	Daisy Laws	Student	The Open University, UK
441	Ms	Jennifer Forbes	Lecturer	Former Student
442	Dr	Greg Pasco	Senior Postdoctoral Researcher	Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
443	Mr	Stefano Macchi	House Husband	Alumnus of the Sorbonne University
444		Claire Ashdown	Student and Education Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Project Manager	University of Leicester, UK
445	Mr	Robin Foster	Proprieter	Concerned Citizen
446	Dr	Uracha Chatrakul Na Ayudhya	Reader	Birkbeck, University of London, UK
447	Dr	Thoraya Ammar	Consultant	King’s College London, UK
448	Ms	Waheeda Islam	Alumni	The Open University, UK
449	Dr	Kate West	Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice	King’s College, London, UK
450	Ms	Cheryl Ann McKenna	English for Academic Purposes Tutor	University of Southampton, UK
451	Ms	Amanda Grey	Researcher	Used OU in 20s
452	Mr	Abbas Hussein	Retired Lawyer	None
453		Naeim	Researcher	University of East Anglia, UK
454	Lady	Kim Williams	Solicitor	Higgs LLP
455	Prof	Michel Michaelides	Professor	NHS and University College London, UK
456	Ms	Janet Russell	Retired	None
457	Dr	Joanne Baumber	Lecturer	University of Leeds, UK
458	Dr	Harriet Clarke	Associate Professor	University of Birmingham, UK
459	Mr	Philip Adams	Senior Assistant Librarian	De Montfort University, UK
460		Vicki Marston	Health & Wellness Consultant	BAOT British Association Occupational Therapy	Health and wellness advocate. Peace Campaigner over many decades, all my adult life!!
461	Ms	Anne-Marie Newland	Yoga instructor	Leicester University retired	Author of 2 books on yoga philosophy and practices
462	Mrs	Josephine Barnes	Admin	Alumni
463	Mr	John Slater	Retired Teacher	NEU
464	Prof.	Sarah Whitehouse	Professor	University of Sheffield, UK
465	Mrs	Maud Waret	Classroom teacher	University College London, UK
466	Dr	Gyasiwa Arhin	Researcher	N/A
467	Mr	Mumtaz Ayub	Lecturer	King’s College London, UK
468	Mr	David Flack	Head Teacher	Open University alumni, UK	Psychology, MSc
469	Dr	Eleanor Tiplady Higgs	Lecturer in Religion, Philosophy and Ethics	University of Gloucesterhire, UK
470	Prof.	Severine Hubscher-Davidson	Professor	Director of Postgraduate Studies	The Open University, UK
471	Mr	Andrew Belegrinos	Researcher / Tutor (past role)	The University of Melbourne, Australia
472	Ms	Susan McDowell	Teacher	British University Foundation, UK
473	Dr	Niccolò Mugnai	Assistant Professor	University of Tübingen, Germany
474	Dr	Sarah Shalan	Counselling Psychologist	King’s College London, UK
475	Dr	Vera Kubenz	Associate staff and PhD graduant	University of Birmingham, UK
476	Mr	John C Pettit	Retired Airline Pilot and frequent pilgrim to Holy Land	None	A firm belief in equal rights for Palestinians and Israelis of any religion
477	Dr	Andrew Lawrence	Senior Lecturer	University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
478	Mr	Osman	Project Manager	Lancaster
479	Mr	David Piela	Alumni	Alumni
480	Mr	Paul Brangwyn	Researcher of Social Anthropology	Former OU alumni. Voluntary advisor on the UK Human Rights Act.	Former research assistant to Social Anthropology Professor Jan Broegger of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Oslo, Norway.
481	Dr	Amna Kaleem	Leverhulme Early Career Fellow	University of Sheffield, UK
482	Mr	Samuel Squires	State Education	NA	NA
483	Dr	Michael Pierse	Reader	Queen’s University, Belfast, UK
484	Dr	Timothy Hampson	Researcher	University College London, UK
485	Ms	Ayesha Peeran	Careers Consultant	The Open University, UK
486	Prof.	Diana Jeater	Professor of African History	University of Liverpool, UK	Taught at Open University 2013-2017
487		H Crowdey	Alumni	Middlesex University, UK
488	They/them	ana Heyatawin	Ex student of OU	Take Back Power, Defend Our Jury, Unite, The Green Party
489	Ms	Carol Archer	Defend Our Juries
490	Mr	Paul Lane	Individual	None
491	Mrs	Marji Mansfield	Teacher and Activist	Lift-the-ban
492	Mrs	Marlene Hutchinson	Public	None
493	Mr	Michael Alan Lacey	Retired Lecturer	Extinction Rebellion
494	Ms	Xandra	Retired Social Worker	None
495	Miss	Katie Mallalieu-Unwin	Student	The Open University, UK
496		Ameena	People Business Partner	Graduate
497	Mr	Shanoor Ullah	Artist	Free Palestine
498	Mr	Colin Morris	None	None
499	Mr	Andy Cooper	IT co-op founder and owner	Green Party, University of Surrey alumni, University of Exeter staff alumni
500	Mr	Denis Grace	Teacher	The Open University, UK
501	Dr	Elena Gorman, PhD
502	Mr	Richard Boyd Barrett	TD (Member of Irish Parliament) for Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland	People Before Profit
503		Sanni	Doctoral Researcher	University of Turku, Finland
504	Mrs	Annie Webster	Retired	University of the West of England, UK
505	Dr	Dom Jackson-Cole	Lecturer in Education	University of Derby, UK	antiracism and decoloniality in higher education
506	Dr	Elizabeth Elliott	Senior Lecturer	University of Aberdeen, UK
507	Dr	Tracey Davanna	Lecturer in Criminology	London South Bank University, UK
508	Dr	Aidan O’Sullivan	Senior Lecturer in Criminology	Birmingham City University, UK
509	Dr	Sabiha Allouche	Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics	University of Exeter, UK
510	Prof.	Sarah Armstrong	Chair in Criminology	University of Glasgow, UK
511	Miss	Holly Owen	APS Manager	The Open University, UK
512		Kevin Hoffin	Senior Lecturer	Birmingham City University, UK
513	Dr	Eleanor Newbigin	Senior lecturer in modern history	SOAS, University of London, UK
514	Dr	monika jaeckel	artist researcher	Independent
515	Dr	Nathan Kerrigan	Associate Professor in Sociology	Birmingham City University, UK
516	Dr	Fatima Sajjad	Associate Professor	University of Management and Technology, Pakistan	The Pluriversity Lahore Founder
517		David M. Black	Psychoanalyst (retired)	British Psychoanalytic Society	Author of Psychoanalysis and Ethics: the Necessity of Perspective
518	Mr	Luqman Muraina	PGR	University of York, UK
519	Ms	Laoise Ward	Postgraduate Researcher	University of Brighton, UK
520		Mark Skopec	PhD Student	Imperial College London, UK
521	Dr	Artemis Christinaki	Honorary Senior Research Fellow	The University of Manchester, UK
522		Julia Suárez-Krabbe	Associate Professor	Roskilde University, Denmark
523	Dr	Katy Highet	Lecturer	University of the West of Scotland, UK
524	Mrs	Juliet Newbigin	Psychotherapist	British Psychotherapy Foundation	Psychoanalysis and society
525	Dr	Saeko Yazaki	Senior Lecturer	University of Glasgow, UK
526	Dr	Christine van Duuren	Psychotherapist (retired)	UKPMHN
527	Dr	Christopher Griffin	Associate Lecturer	The Open University, UK
528	Mrs	Hilary Lester	Psychoanalyst with the Society of Analytical Psychology	British Psychoanalytic Council
529		Alison Vaspe	Psychoanalyst (private practice)	British Psychoanalytic Association
530	Dr	Leopodlashuc	Retired	CAS UCT
531	Prof.	Lesley Caldwell	Visiting Professor, UCL	psychoanalysis UNit University College London, UK
532	Mr	Imran Mohd Rasid	Executive Director	Citizens International	Citizens International is an independent, international, anti-colonial NGO committed to the cause of peaceful coexistence and global cooperation, addressing global disparities and injustices, resisting all forms of oppression, and promoting inclusive multilateralism for a sustainable planet
533	Dr	Martin Kemp	Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist	British Psychotherapy Foundation	UK Palestine Mental Health Network; Psychoanalytic Voices for Palestine
534	Ms	Eliana Pinto	Consultant Psychotherapist (NHS retired)	UK Palestine Mental Health Network	Psychoanalytic Voices for Palestine
535	Ms	Magi Young	PhD researcher Social Psychology	The Open University, UK
536		Sara Ewing	Lecturer in Academic Literacies	Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
537	Dr	Nicola Padel	Psychiatrist and psychotherapist (retired)	Severnside Institute for Psychotherapy, UK
538	Dr	Shivani Singhal	Research Fellow	University of Leeds, UK
539	Dr	Felix Padel	Research Associate	University of Sussex, UK
540	Dr	Dina M. Siddiqi	Clinical Professor	New York University, US
541	Dr	Oliver Padel	Retired Reader in Celtic	University of Cambridge, UK
542	Dr	David Bell	Psychoanalyst and Hon Sen Lecturer UCL	British Psychoanalytic Society, UK
543	Ms	Maureen Boerma	Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist (Retired)	Tavistock Relationships/British Psychoanalytic Council, UK	Psychoanalytic Voices for Palestine (PVP)
544	Mr	Martin Golding	Emeritus Fellow, Peterhouse, Cambridge	Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, UK	Retired Director of Studies in English & Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
545	Mr	Adam	Psychotherapist	None
546	Dr.	Amanda Tavares	Postdoctoral Researcher	Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
547	Prof.	Paul	Emeritus Professor of Social Policy	University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
548		Martina Arcioni	Student	The Open University, UK & Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
549	Prof.	David Wield	Emeritus Professor	The Open University, UK
550	Ms	Sarah Cooke	Jungian Psychoanalyst	Society of Analytical Psychology	Psychoanalytic Voices for Palestine
551	Ms	SarahT	Educator	ESL	Information/Middle East History & Politics
552	Prof	David Ludden	Professor Emeritus	New York UniveNew York University and University of Pennsylvaniarsity and University of Pennsylvania, US	My research covers India, ancient to modern, where contested territorial terminologies are rampant and discussed openly as such and not simply erased. Palestine was the name of a Roman province and needs to be used as such. The “Ancient” in Ancient Palestine is the problem, and could be equally labelled Ancient Israel+Lebanon+West Bank of Syria (which is not Israel).
553	Ms	Lesley Pavincich	Psychoanalyst	British Psychoanalytic Association, UK
554	Mrs	Kendall Collinson	Psychotherapist	British Psychoanalytic Foundation, UK
555	Ms	Jackie Charbit-Middleton	Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist	British Psychotherapy Foundation	British Psychoanalytic Council
556		Clea McEnery West	Senior Lecturer, Psychodynamic Psychotherapist	Birkbeck College
557	Ms	Denise Cullington	Psychoanalyst	BPAS
558	Prof.	Mona Baker	Affiliate Professor	University of Oslo, Norway	Translation Studies
559	Ms	Golshad Ghiaci	Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist	British Psychoanalytic Council
560	Dr	Nihan Albayrak	Assistant Professor of Social Psychology	Bogazici University & LSE
561	Dr	Emil Wolff	Assistant Professor	Leiden University, the Netherlands
562	Dr	David Hewison	Senior Fellow	Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, UK
563	Mr	Mahmood Asgari	Lecturer	City of Portsmouth College, UK
564		Emily Marriott	Student	The Open University, UK
565	Mrs	nirmala bigden	Retired	Teacher
566	Dr	Adnan Husain	Associate Professor, Medieval Mediterranean & Islamicate World History	Queen’s University, UK
567	Mrs	Anna McClelland	Retired EU Civil Servant	None
568	Me	Jon Woods	Portsmouth City UNISON Branch Chair	Palestine Solidarity Campaign
569	Dr	Joss Moorkens	Associate Professor	Dublin City University, Ireland
570		Pina Antinucci	Psychoanalyst	British Psychoanalytic Society-International Psychoanalytic Association
571		joanna Lee	Psychoannalytic psychotherapist (retired)	British Psychotherapy Foundation
572	Dr	Iván Farías Pelcastre	Consultant	Sabanci University, Turkey	Associate Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy
573	Dr	Maiko Kawabata	Senior Lecturer and Staff Tutor in Music	The Open University, UK
574		Felix R-M	Student	Student
575	Mr	Bernard Spiegal	N/A	N/A
576	Prof.	Henry Bernstein	Retired	Emeritus Professor, SOAS, University of London, UK
577		Ju Tomaz-Merrills	Psychoanalyst in Private Practise	BPA
578	Ms	Eileen Gricuk	PhD Student	Queen’s University, Belfast, UK
579	Dr	Leonor Barroca	Retired Senior Lecturer in Computing	The Open University, UK
580	Prof.	Fiona Leach	Professor Emerita	University of Sussex, UK
581	Dr	Shaheen Kattiparambil	Lecturer	School of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Leeds, UK
582		Joseph Robinson	Student	Open college of the arts
583	Ms	Claire Robinson	Potential student	Pla de L’Estany amb Palestina
584		Albert Maroto	MD, Ph D	University of Girona, Spain
585		Laurence Blackwell-Jones	Executive Director	Rethinking Economics International
586	Mr	Ross Cathcart		Rethinking Economics International
	Miss	Ifrah Shah	Information Security Project Coordinator	The Open University, UK	Member of The Open University Palestine Solidarity Group
	Mrs	Nazia Kauser	Employability Adviser	Careers & Employability Service, The Open University, UK

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