At the Open University, the OU for Ceasefire in Gaza Group held its first webinar as follows:The Israel-Palestine issue comes to the Open University: How to facilitate free debate?The talks included a decolonial discourse analysis of the OU’s public statement, which reproduced the dominant US-UK-Israeli narrative.See recording here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiAdIqGWN4c Its second webinar will be held…

Home > All News Items and Articles A motion calling for the endorsement of Standing Together, the latest in a long line of Israeli initiatives intended to divert attention from the murderous oppression and land seizure in Palestine, came before the Leeds University UCU branch last evening. It was soundly rejected. In the decisive vote,…

Home > All News Items and Articles Israel’s “Hasbara Handbook” providing students with the rhetorical weapons to defend the country against accusations of racism, aggression and oppression must be one of the most successful ebooks of modern times, since its arguments and techniques of debate can be heard every day throughout the Western world. Indeed,…

Home > All News Items and Articles No issue is more misreported in the British media than the Israel-Palestine conflict. In this article, James Dickins, Professor Emeritus of Arabic at the University of Leeds, reflects on an incident in 2020, in which he was subject to misreporting, and the wider context. All the information given…

Home > All News Items and Articles The recent report by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, setting out the latest statistics on the physical and human destruction of Gaza higher education since 7 October, leaves little if any doubt that Israel is seeking totally to eliminate this vital sector of Palestinian life. As the Monitor indicates,…

Home > All News Items and Articles Breaking the near silence of the UK mainstream media on Israel’s remorseless assault on Gaza’s higher education, the Times Higher Education summarises developments as reported by the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor (published elsewhere on the BRICUP website). The original THE article can be found here. Academia in Gaza…

American university administrators continue to grapple with the conflict between student and faculty political activism and critics who allege intimidation, bullying and antisemitism. Unfortunately, the critics almost always win, and this report in The Forward acknowledges. Colleges rewrite free speech policies and limit protests as spring semester unfolds Some new policies would prohibit the posting of…