24 June 2025 A broad coalition of European academic groups including BRICUP has petitioned Brussels to suspend the EU association agreement immediately. Here is the petition with the first 4499 signatures. Petition: Stop European Funding for Israeli Institutions, Stop Complicity in Occupation, Apartheid and Genocide To Ms. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European…
23 June 2025 Early this year the PSC-Stop the War coalition responsible for the great monthly marches for Palestine in London requested permission to march to – or past – the BBC headquarters on Upper Regent Street. The police, no doubt on the advice of the Home Secretary (pictured), absolutely refused to grant it. And…
20 June 2025 It could have been expected. Israel’s murderous ethnic cleansing of Palestinians was bound to attract comment from health professionals, so Israeli agents began to discourage Western medical journals from reporting the consequences for their principal victims, the people of Palestine. Pro-Israel attacks on medical journals started in the 1980s after World Medicine…
19 June 2025 The Oxford Union has been holding debates on the most urgent issues of the day for over 200 years and until now it has never been censured. But a speech by the best-selling Palestinian-American author Susan Abulhawa last November has so angered members of the Union’s shadowy board of trustees that they…
18 June 2025 Avi Shlaim is a distinguished historian of the Middle East, an Emeritus Professor of International Relations at Oxford University and an Israeli by birth who once served in the IDF. No one could be better qualified to evaluate the place of Hamas in the current crisis and the importance of keeping open…
17 June 2025 KCL’s UCU branch has called for a consultative ballot on academic freedom and staff safeguarding to end the administration’s harassing of colleagues who speak out for Palestine including by the lengthy and intrusive investigation of their social media posts including those posted long before they even joined KCL. Consultative ballot on academic…
16 June 2025 A report by the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territories including East Jerusalem has condemned Israel’s systematic destruction of Palestinian educational, religious and cultural sites in Gaza. The list of charges against Israel covers several pages. No one who reads this report can be in any doubt that Israel…
13 June 2025 Harvard University is faced with grotesque penalties from the Trump Administration on the grounds that the University has failed to address antisemitism on campus. But as 27 Jewish scholars of Jewish studies – including Barry Trachtenberg (pictured) – point out in this Guardian article, Harvard’s own management has complicated the situation by…
8 June 2025 Academics from around Europe mounted a petition calling upon the EU to suspend its partnership agreement with Israel providing privileged access to EU institutions, since Israel clearly fails to meet the requirement in the agreement to respect human rights. Google immediately took down the petition and suspended the academic who posted it….
7 June 2025 Two University of Birmingham students who have spent near a year under threat of expulsion for peacefully demonstrating for an end to University investments favouring Israel have had their cases dropped, after a sustained campaign by fellow students with support from the European Legal Support Centre. Here is the ELSC report. Case…