30 March 2026 Here’s the report by activists at the OU on their successful pushback against the UKLFI’s use of lawfare to erase Palestine from maps and academic discourse. Background: OU capitulation to pro-Israel lobby In November 2025, UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) sent the Open University (OU) a threat of legal action against the…
30 March 2026 A group of international academics have launched an archive commemorating Palestinian scholars killed during the ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza since 2023. The initiative documents the lives, work and contributions of university professors, researcher and educators, and is part of a broader effort to document what scholars and human rights advocates describe…
25 March 2026 Emad Abdel-Latif, Professor of Rhetoric and Discourse Analysis at Qatar University, discusses the possible explanations for Jurgen Habermas’s failure to apply consistently his adherence to democratic and humanist principles when it came to the genocide in Gaza. His explanation, which closely resembles Edward Said argument in his famous book The Question of…
25 March 2026 For over two years Israel targeted Palestinian medical personnel and academics in Gaza, killing hundreds in the most blatant of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Now Israel is applying the same criminal policy in Lebanon, as this article in The New Arab describes. States and professional bodies everywhere in the West…
19 March 2026 The Universite Paris-Saclay, a recently established tertiary institution in France specialising in science, applied science and mathematics, reluctantly sought to address the question of relations with Israeli universities whose complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza is scarcely in doubt. But as this article by Professor Jonathan Rosenhead (pictured) in the THES…
24 March 2026 UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) is at it again, pressuring the Open University and the British Museum to abandon use of the term Palestine in ancient history because, supposedly, it obscures the “history of Israel and the Jewish people”. Ilan Pappe (pictured) explains in this article in the electronic intifada why the…
24 March 2026 On the principle of “academic freedom”, UCD management defends academics who participate in research projects with Israeli universities which are deeply implicated in Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza and terror campaign in the Occupied West Bank. But on the grounds that it is causing an “environmental hazard” management has secured the support…
24 March 2026 Israel wanted to destroy all of Gaza’s universities. Gazans were determined to keep them open. As this account by Hassan Abo Qamar in the electronic intifada describes, they have stayed open. But their sorry condition and the importance of sustaining Palestinian make it imperative that they should be assisted to recover. Rebuilding…
24 March 2026 Their society devastated by the Nakba in 1948, Palestinians have placed a high value on their cultural assets including schools, universities, libraries and archives, and Israel has targeted them all in its attempt to obliterate Palestinian society. This became grimly evident in Israel’s assault on Gaza after 7 October 2026, as Eman…
24 March 2026 The US Department of Justice is suing Harvard University for permitting students to repeat these slogans which could be interpreted in a certain way and might cause offense to some Jewish students and would therefore be cause for complaint. Harvard seems likely to win its case, but as this article in The…
