15 April 2026 Dr Aria Fani, Director of the Middle East Center at the University of Washington and an Iranian by birth, spoke out publicly against US aggression against Iran. As this article by Sammy Baroud in The Palestine Chronicle explains, Fani’s circular email apparently was the last straw for the University’s administration, after his…
11 April 2026 For years, observers abroad have watched in horror as public authorities in Germany brutally suppressed all expressions of solidarity with Palestinians. Large numbers of faculty and students nevertheless persisted in their agitation, and a boycott movement has now emerged, uniting campus groups across the country, exposing the extensive alliances between German and…
11 April 2026 As this article in The National reveals, arms firms are present on dozens of campuses in the UK, with enough money to influence what is being taught and no doubt many other aspects of university life. Two Scottish universities blasted as arms industry influence revealed 8 APRIL 2026 By James Walker TWO…
10 April 2026 In face of resistance from university administrators, Swedish faculty and staff, including PhD students who are normally paid employees of their university, have drafted a petition, known as the Uppsala Declaration, which closely follows the lines of the Academic Commitment initiated by BRICUP some ten years ago and available on this website….
9 April 2026 Defense for Children International – Palestine has produced a documentary film depicting the genocide through the eyes of Palestinian children who have endured it. The film can be downloaded and shown to interested audiences. Documentary: Through a Child’s Eyes Through a Child’s Eyes is a documentary featuring interviews with Palestinian children enduring…
8 April 2026 Hassan Herzallah, a Gaza writer and translator, explains in this article in Waging Nonviolence how university students manage to continue their studies despite the devastation caused by two and a half years of Israeli assault, and why they persist. In Gaza, education is a daily act of quiet resistance For students in…
8 April 2026 As Omar Zahzah of San Francisco State University (pictured) explains in this article for The Palestine Chronicle, the systemic suppression of sympathy for Palestinians in the US is part of a broader campaign to suppress understanding of America’s alignment with Israel on settler colonialism. A Question of Violence: Palestine in American Academia…
8 April 2026 Trump couldn’t have improved on the way two of Britain’s leading peace campaigners, Chris Nineham, head of Stop the War Coalition, and Ben Jamal (pictured), head of Palestine Solidarity Campaign, who have been organising the monthly marches for Palestine in London, were fitted up by the police, then convicted in court last…
1 April 2026 BRICUP’s friends in Scotland deserve congratulations for securing the adoption of an important motion at the AGM of the Scottish UCU Congress last Friday. It’s set out below. A similar motion is going to the UK-wide UCU Congress in May. BRICUP played a central role in organising the three previous Campus Voices…
1 April 2026 As this report from the Palestine News Network explains, a senior court in Belgium has ruled that the Belgian government has failed to honour its obligations to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) by failing to act in light of the probable genocide in Gaza. The UK government has equal obligations to…
