23 September 2025 Two Turkish scholars apply Gramscian theory to explain the intensified repression of free speech and academic freedom since October 2023 in this article from Informed Comment. Academic Freedom Under Siege: Right Wing Repression and Principled Resistance By Mehmet Rakipoğlu and İbrahim Özcoşar, published 21.10.2025 Exeter, UK and Mardin, Türkiye (Special to Informed…
16 October 2025 Once again, senior administrators of a major British university appear to be living in a bubble within which mention of the genocide in Gaza has yet to reach them. Undergraduate students inside and outside the Oxford Union have been shouting from the rooftops to divest and boycott, but it seems the administrators…
19 October 2025 Yohai Hakak of Academic-BDS publishes the following statement from Hebrew University administrators and the brief response from Metanya Ben-Artzi, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics as an illustration of why we should continue to boycott Israeli universities. The point is well made. “Dear colleagues, in case you remain indecisive about the academic boycott of…
17 October 2025 Even now, more than twenty years since Palestine civil society first called for the academic boycott of Israeli universities, prominent societies in the UK misunderstand the boycott call, imagining that it aims at individual Israeli academics, and clinging to the belief that Israeli universities are islands of liberal thought. (It doesn’t and…
13 October 2025 Sally Kornbluth, President of MIT (pictured), who failed to defend her students last year when facing a Congressional committee bent on intimidating her into suppressing free speech on Israel/Palestine, has found her spine and flatly turned down Trump’s ‘deal’ which involves suppressing free speech and yielding control over admissions in return for…
13 October 2025 At the official level, Canada has long been a fervent defender of Israel’s “right” to defend itself by seizing Palestinian land, disregarding international law, recruiting Canadians to fight in IDF units and until barely weeks ago pursuing genocide in Gaza. The Globe and Mail, Canada’s “national newspaper”, maintains the proud tradition of…
9 October 2025 Dr Derek Summerfield is a Consultant Psychiatrist and an authority on the psychological effects of war, torture and forced displacement on civilian populations and especially women and children. His editorial on the impact of Israel’s genocide in Gaza was published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). Here are his reflections on the…
7 October 2025 You are cordially invited to attend BRICUP’s launch of its completely revised and expanded booklet, Why Boycott Israeli Universities? and relaunch of the Academic Commitment. Details below.
6 October 2025 The Palestine Chronicle has reprinted the contents of a report by the Gaza Government setting out many of the statistics required to grasp the appalling scale of Israel’s genocide. It should be noted that they were compiled before the latest Israeli assault on Gaza City and environs. Shocking Figures: Two Years of…
5 October 2025 The Guardian offers a complimentary report on the new study published in the BMJ and introduced by Dr Derek Summerfield in the previous post. Civilian injuries in Gaza similar to those of soldiers in war zones, study finds Wounds such as burns or leg injuries more common in Gaza than among US…