17 March 2026 Dear Professor Phoenix and members of the Vice Chancellor’s Executive, We are writing on behalf of the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine to express our profound concern about your university’s response to a letter from the UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) regarding the use of the term ‘ancient Palestine.’ Based…
12 March 2026 From benign neglect in the 1950s, Israel began actively to interfere in Palestinian education in the 1960s, limiting access to suitable textbooks for schools and scientific materials for colleges and universities, arresting students and teachers, erecting checkpoints, shutting down institutions for shorter or longer periods, and in Gaza deliberately destroying the whole…
9 March 2026 The APA, which describes itself as “the leading scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States, with more than 190,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants, and students as its members,” has not only removed the most objectionable clauses from the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which made it a weapon against criticism…
6 March 2026 Nicola Perugini (pictured) and Shaira Vadasaria have written a remarkable article on the University of Edinburgh’s complicity in the nightmare that Palestinians have suffered since the promulgation of the Balfour declaration, issued while Arthur Balfour was Chancellor of the University. The article merits the attention of all BRICUP supporters, but it begs…
4 March 2026 Under pressure from UK Lawyers for Israel, the Open University had banned its staff from using the standard academic term ‘Ancient Palestine’ in their course materials. The OU has now partially reversed that ban, but more needs to be done to force the OU to restore full academic integrity. Open University U-Turns…
3 March 2026 This scathing condemnation of the US-Israel war by Craig Mokhiber, a former UN official and authority on international law, reprinted from Mondoweiss, has little to do directly with Palestine, but it deserves to be read by everyone seeking to understand the current crisis. Understanding the U.S. and Israel’s illegal war on Iran…
2 March 2026 Among the many myths propping up Israel’s legitimacy, one of the hardiest is that in 1948 Palestinians fled their homes, farms, shops and towns of their own volition or at urging of their religious leaders, leaving the land for Zionist settlers to enjoy undisturbed. True, no evidence has ever been adduced to…
2 March 2026 As reported last week, Forensic Architecture and Earshot, two groups of London-based forensic analysts, have undertaken a careful study of the killing of 15 humanitarian workers in southern last March. Here is the link to their lengthy report: https://content.forensic-architecture.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Israeli-Executions-of-Palestinian-Aid-Workers.pdf And here is the Introduction and Summary of their research: Following the ambush,…
15 January 2026 The name Mary Bassett (pictured) may be unfamiliar to British readers, but as this report from The Crimson, the Harvard newspaper, explains, the decision to remove her from her post at Harvard is no small matter. Public Health Faculty Slam Harvard’s Removal of FXB Center Director Mary Bassett A banner at the…
26 February 2026 Is it because the foreign medics have spoken out about the genocide or simply because they are useful to Gaza’s survival? In either case, Israel is breaching its international obligations and denying vital medical assistance to Palestinians. Here’s a useful report from The Guardian. (Cover photo shows the Gaza al-Shifa hospital, destroyed…
