13 August 2026 The conflict inside the AHA between a majority of the membership and a small but determined Zionist minority bears a family resemblance to conflicts inside many universities and academic bodies. But as vividly illustrated by this petition, circulated earlier in the summer and reprinted in Juan Cole’s excellent blog Informed Comment, the…
13 August 2026 Once again, a university has decided that criticising Israel’s appalling actions in Palestine is antisemitic and its student perpetrators must be punished. The irony here is that the university in question, Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, has a “free speech fence” where for practically 100 years students have been permitted to express their…
13 August 2026 This powerful essay by Sophie Lewis (pictured) offers a brilliant analysis of Israel’s fictional claims of Hamas’ sexual abuse on 7 October 2023 and its actual sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners, locating them both within a compelling framework of analysis. This is what it looks like when a society has settled the…
13 August 2026 Two new books describe the corruption of the US mainstream media, which have systematically silenced the Palestinian voice amidst the Israelis’ ethnic cleansing in the Occupied West Bank and genocide in Gaza, yet have signally failed to sustain public support for Israel. Here’s the report in the Electronic Intifada. How complicit media…
13 August 2026 Universities are bastions of free speech and intellectual inquiry. Or at least they are supposed to be. But when it comes to open discussion of injustice and oppression in Palestine, even many universities in the UK have shut down debate, cancelled lectures, obstructed meetings, disciplined faculty and students and even demanded that…
12 August 2026 Unsurprisingly, in the new British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) report, the assaults on academic freedom to speak up about Palestine loom large. Download the report Press Release | New BRISMES report warns of growing threats to academic freedom in the UK, Europe and the Middle East First annual report documents…
7 August 2026 Raz Segal (pictured) was offered the directorship of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota in 2023, but when Israel launched its genocidal assault on Gaza and Segal named it a genocide, Zionists pressured the University management to reverse its offer and it caved to the pressure….
2 August 2026 This report in +972 describes in precise detail TAU’s implication in the Israeli war machine. ‘Full cooperation’: How Tel Aviv University serves Israel’s security state From Shin Bet recruitment to military training programs, Israel’s defense establishment is becoming increasingly embedded in academic life. By Meron Rapoport and Aharon Porath July 30, 2026 After Hila Ben David…
2 August 2026 Neve Gordon, an Israeli Professor of Law at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) explains in this article in Zeteo UK how Zionists seek to delegitimise expressions of support for the Palestine struggle for justice. Why criminalising the phrase ‘Globalise the Intifada’ is dangerous Neve Gordon, an Israeli professor of international law,…
2 August 2026 It was so predictable. Eight months ago, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg announced its intention to mount a modest exhibit on the Nakba of 1948 when some 750,000 Palestinians were forced to flee their homes, villages, workshops and farms in Palestine by armed Zionist para-militaries who became the IDF…
