10 April 2025 This article in The Forward by Paul Nahme, Professor of Jewish Studies at Brown University in Rhode Island [pictured], expresses a widely shared criticism of President Trump’s charges of antisemitism against American universities: they are shutting down intellectual life on campus and exposing Jewish faculty and students to charges that they are…
17 March 2025 Friends of Birzeit University (FOBZU) has published a highly useful guide to promoting support for Palestinian universities through partnerships, scholarships, research collaboration, etc. Details are contained in the Guide below. Partnerships with Palestine Guide CLICK HERE TO ACCESS GUIDE This guide equips UK academics and administrators with practical ways to support Gaza’s…
7 April 2025 Properly regulated, archaeology contributes enormously to our understanding of the past, but in rogue states such as Israel it is frequently used to obscure the truth about past civilisations and prop up falsehoods to justify their presence on the land. Thus complicit archaeologists ignore inconvenient layers of evidence and even destroy them…
Sixteen months of bombings and attacks have decimated Gaza’s health system and workforce. Palestinian doctors tell Elisabeth Mahase of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) about the effects on mental health, what needs to happen next, and how UK doctors can help. 6 March, 2025 Gaza’s health system is “completely eviscerated”—what happens now? BMJ 2025; 388 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r361 (Published 25 February 2025) Cite…
6 April 2025 As The Intercept reports, Germany has taken the decision to deport a Pole, an American and two Irish students for the “crime” of participating in demonstrations in support of Palestine. Thus tragically Zionism has undermined democratic values of free speech and assembly in yet one more country. Germany Turns to U.S. Playbook:…
6 April 2025 Israel’s Palestinian students suffer a two-fold psychological torture, having to live with the daily news of the genocide in Gaza and the total indifference and potential aggression of their Jewish Israeli fellow students. +972Magazine describes their plight. The schizophrenic existence of Palestinian students on Israeli campuses We’ve learned to suppress our identity…
6 April 2025 Dr Swee Ang, FRCS, was born in Penang, Malaysia. She grew up and studied in Singapore. In 1973 she obtained her medical degree and in 1976 her master’s in occupational medicine at the University of Singapore. She was silver medallist for her undergrad, and gold medallist for her master’s. She joined her husband…
6 April 2025 For years, the McGill University administration, pressured by an uncommonly strong pro-Isreal doner class, has done its level best to suppress student support for Palestinian human rights. Hitherto, piecemeal student action has resulted in severe sanctions. But this has only provoked students, and in late September the student body as a whole…
The IHRA ‘definition’ of anti-Semitism protects Israel not Jews Sponsors JNP, Scottish PSC, Jewish Voice for Labour and British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP) Chair Kristina Hultgren, Professor of Sociolinguistics and UK Research & Innovation Future Leaders Fellow Speakers Registration
31 March 2025 Another day, another Israeli attack on Palestinian medical personnel. The story is so familiar as to be almost tiresome, which itself is outrageous. Late last week, members of a Palestine Red Crescent team in Gaza together with other aid workers set off on a rescue mission, only to be fired on by…