This is the revised and expanded Second Edition of the BRICUP case for boycotting Israeli academic institutions. Published in 2025 as Israel attempts to ethnically “cleanse” the Gaza Strip through a genocidal assault on its 2.3 million Palestinian residents and unleashes extremists in the illegal Jewish settlements to terrorise the Palestinians living in the Occupied…
20 May 2025 Student pressure over Gaza has at last caused King’s College to announce its intention to divest from arms firms. This is of course good news, but it invites the question: Why did the largely undergraduate student body recognize the ethical and political imperative to divest from such firms so long before the…
20 May 2025 Mathematicians worldwide have called on the board of the International Mathematics Olympiad to suspend Israel from participation in their forthcoming event in Australia. In the past the IMO has frequently taken a stand against major instances of injustice including most recently the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But, as the collective letter below…
19 May 2025 Will UK universities respond to Israel’s Gaza Scholasticide? (The link to the Academic Commitment follows) One of the Israel’s targets in Gaza has been its education system, which it has largely destroyed. All of Gaza’s universities have been bombed, and most are now in ruins. Not only the buildings have been targeted:…
19 May 2025 Here is Haaretz’s startling report on the growing impact of the academic boycott on Israel’s universities. Sign the Academic Commitment here, to strengthen the boycott. Israeli Academia Faces Hundreds of ’Explicit’ Boycotts by Foreign Universities, Report Says Israel News- Haaretz.com Feb 25, 2025 12:09 pm IST Israeli researchers have reported hundreds of…
16 May 2025 The Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, insists upon applying the IHRA definition to NHS personnel. As the Electronic Intifada reports, this has led to the suspension of a UK doctor merely for telling the truth about Israel’s deadly assault on Gaza in his social media posts. Can the Labour government possibly sink further…
16 May 2025 Four prominent American human rights lawyers reconfirm the verdict of leading organisations including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and B’Tselem in their Guardian article. We are human rights lawyers. Our new report is clear: Israel perpetrates apartheid The Guardian, 15 May 2025 Sandra L Babcock, Susan M Akram, Thomas Becker and James Cavallaro…
This website is normally restricted to aspects of the struggle for justice in Palestine involving universities and academics in the UK, Palestine and elsewhere. But the history of Israel’s decades-long use of food insecurity as a weapon against the Palestine is so important and so little understood that we are publishing below an excellent account…
BRICUP urges all academics to support the Academic Commitment in response to the call by Palestinian civil society organisations to refrain from any involvement with Israeli academic institutions, all of which are complicit in Israel’s occupation, colonisation and system of apartheid. Two common misconceptions need to be exposed. Firstly, the boycott is of institutions not…
14 May 2025 The Financial Times has published a letter from Oxford academics from a wide range of disciplines expressing their solidarity with Harvard colleagues whose institution is seeking to resist the interference of the Trump administration in its admissions procedures, teaching and research. 12 May 2025 Letter: Trump attack on academic freedom ‘must be…