30 March 2025 The administrators of Harvard, probably the richest university in the world, have decided it is better to protect their multi-billion dollar endowment than safeguard the core principles of their institution, as this report in the The Harvard Crimson confirms. Having embarked on the slippery slope, they are likely to fall fast and…
30 March 2025 At least some Israeli academics get it: As reported in Haaretz, they state that Washington’s weaponisation of antisemitism under the pretense of protecting Jews actually stifles free speech and academic freedom for everyone and allows the genocide in Gaza to continue. ISRAELI ACADEMICS: US GOVERNMENT ATTACK ON UNIVERSITIES DOES NOT PROTECT US…
30 March 2025 As John Naughton (pictured), the Guardian and Observer’s technology expert explains, the Trump administration’s oppressive policies are leading American academics to behave as if their country is already a police state, three prominent members of the Yale University faculty have already fled to Canada, and universities in several European countries are preparing…
28 March 2025 Avi Shlaim, emeritus professor of International Relations at St. Antony’s College Oxford, has helpfully provided an abstract of his recent article for the British Academy: This article examines the concept of ‘scholasticide’, the deliberate destruction of an educational system and its institutions, in the context of Gaza. Tracing its historical roots to…
As Haaretz declares, Israel’s so-called left Zionists such as the sociologist Eva Illouz [pictured] have distinguished themselves by their moral blindness in face of the genocide their own government is inflicting on the people of Gaza. The Israel Prize for Blindness Goes to Zionist Intellectuals – Opinion – Haaretz.com Hanin Majadli Mar 27, 2025 10:16 pm…
28 March 2025 The US medical establishment failed to call out the Holocaust during the Second World War and sought to defend the South African Medical Association during Apartheid. As this The Nation explains, its continuing silence on the genocide in Gaza is part of the same pattern and explained by the same influences. But…
28 March 2025 As this brilliant, hard-hitting article from The Nation explains, the NEJM’s hypocritical choice of article is at least consistent with the traditional place of healthcare in imperialist politics. (cover photo: al Shifa Hospital, Gaza, after Israeli bombing) March 26, 2025 The World’s Top Medical Journal Is Giving Cover to Genocide The New…
28 March 2025 Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor Emeritus of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, describes in this Guardian article Columbia’s own corruption that led to its downfall, comparing it to the Vichy regime in wartime France which actively collaborated with its Nazi conquerors. Does Columbia still merit the name of a university?…
25 March 2025 The Columbia University administration, having already applied intense repression of student demonstrators and their faculty sympathisers, has now knuckled under to federal pressure even though Washington has signalled that this is just the start of its campaign to neuter US higher education as a whole. As the New York Times reports, a…
20 March 2025 As Joseph Massad (pictured) explains in this Middle East Eye article, academic specialists have radically altered their analysis of relations between Israel and the Palestinians since the 1970s, for the most part seeing it as a settler colonial relationship. Unfortunately, the political class, the mainstream media and non-specialist academics in the West…