6 November 2025 It’s the same old story. Pro-Israel academics at Goldsmiths University of London, alleging widespread antisemitism on campus, demanded an inquiry, counting on naive managers to share their conflation of anti-zionism and antisemitism. In response, the managers spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on a KC-led enquiry, then apparently having learned nothing from…

4 November 2025 The Electronic Intifada publishes this deeply moving account of a teacher who has persevered throughout Israel’s two year-long attempt to destroy all cultural production in Gaza and kept alive her students’ hopes for an education. Teaching in the midst of genocide Sara Nabil Hegy The Electronic Intifada 4 November 2025 In the first week…

4 November 2025 The Cambridge Student Union voted to disaffiliate from the National Union of Students on account of its executive’s failure to respond to calls from students across the country to campaign for justice for Palestine. Here is the Middle East Eye‘s report. Cambridge Student Union splits from National Union of Students over Gaza…

4 November 2025 Susan Abulhawa, the best-selling novelist, gave a powerful speech in November last year at the Oxford Union, after which the Union voted overwhelmingly to support the motion that “Israel is an apartheid state responsible for genocide”. The Union then briefly posted a video of her speech before abruptly taking it down. The…

3 November 2025 The recent rise of extreme right-wing populist parties in Europe and the Americas is due to the convergence of several factors, including opposition to increasing immigration of different ethnic, racial and religious peoples, the decline in political vitality on account of the globalised economy and rapidly increasing inequality of wealth and income….

31 October 2025 Sabri Jiryis’ masterful history of the Zionist movement, which for years was available only in Arabic, has now been published in English translation. As he explains in this interview for Mondoweiss, the record of injustice inflicted upon the Palestinians, and not least those in Israel, is essential for a final reckoning. Palestinian…

30 October 2025 The accelerating scale of the academic boycott is no doubt due mainly to the appalling two-year long genocide in Gaza, but activists have contributed to it by channelling the mounting public outrage into this form of pressure which, as Haaretz reports, is becoming increasingly effective. Number of Cases of Academic Boycott Against…

28 October 2025 If ever Palestine’s collective spirit and national resistance were sustained by education, it is now. Friends of Palestine Universities (formerly Fobzu) publishes this enspiriting picture of the new academic year at one of the Gaza universities. Gaza Universities Reopen Admissions for Tawjihi Students After Two Years Oct 28, 2025 | After two years…

28 October 2025 Ahmed Kamal Junina, an assistant professor of applied linguistics at Al-Aqsa University, vividly describes in this article in the Independent just what it means to teach amidst the scholasticide and the horrendous punishment Israel has inflicted upon the Gaza community. Back to school in Gaza is now education reduced to fragments University…

28 October 2025 Four prominent scholars, Chandni Desai of the University of Toronto, Sundos Hammad of Birzeit University, Ahmed Abu Shaban of Al-Ahar University, and Abdul Razzaq of Rice University, have published an important article in Curriculum Inquiry on the meaning of scholasticide, how Israel has applied it against the Palestine people in Gaza, the…