Home > All News Items and Articles Israel’s “Hasbara Handbook” providing students with the rhetorical weapons to defend the country against accusations of racism, aggression and oppression must be one of the most successful ebooks of modern times, since its arguments and techniques of debate can be heard every day throughout the Western world. Indeed,…
Home > All News Items and Articles No issue is more misreported in the British media than the Israel-Palestine conflict. In this article, James Dickins, Professor Emeritus of Arabic at the University of Leeds, reflects on an incident in 2020, in which he was subject to misreporting, and the wider context. All the information given…
Home > All News Items and Articles The recent report by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, setting out the latest statistics on the physical and human destruction of Gaza higher education since 7 October, leaves little if any doubt that Israel is seeking totally to eliminate this vital sector of Palestinian life. As the Monitor indicates,…
Home > All News Items and Articles Breaking the near silence of the UK mainstream media on Israel’s remorseless assault on Gaza’s higher education, the Times Higher Education summarises developments as reported by the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor (published elsewhere on the BRICUP website). The original THE article can be found here. Academia in Gaza…
American university administrators continue to grapple with the conflict between student and faculty political activism and critics who allege intimidation, bullying and antisemitism. Unfortunately, the critics almost always win, and this report in The Forward acknowledges. Colleges rewrite free speech policies and limit protests as spring semester unfolds Some new policies would prohibit the posting of…
The Federal University of Ceara in Brazil has cancelled its partnership with Ben Gurion University. BGU has close ties with the Israeli military and arms firms supplying the military. And as the Palestinian Boycott Campaign points out, “Holding an “innovation challenge” with complicit Israeli institutions on topics such as food security and water and sanitation,…
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) points to the complicity of Israeli universities in the current military assault on Gaza and appeals for their boycott in order to bring home to their faculty, administrators and students their responsibility for the unfolding genocide in Gaza. The original appeal can be…
Campus Voices for Palestine Campaign In various universities across the UK, Palestine events have been banned or curtailed, staff and students have faced disciplinary investigations and suspensions because of social-media posts criticising Israel’s genocide in Gaza, distinguished visiting scholars have had their lectures cancelled, and the wearing of a badge bearing a Palestinian flag has…
The Board of Trustees and Committee on Academic Freedom of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies sent a letter [below] today to members of the British Government, including the Prime Minister, Secretary of State for Defence, and Secretary of State for Education, calling upon them to put pressure on Israel to ensure the immediate end of…
Home > All News Items and Articles Jurgen Habermas, the philosopher and member of the Frankfort School of critical theory, has joined German colleagues in endorsing their government’s policy of refusing all criticism of Israel on the transparently ill-founded assumption that it would be antisemitic and a betrayal of Germany’s guilt over the Holocaust. Asef…