The UK academics who simply can’t understand why colleagues would boycott Israeli university supporting genocide
23 February 2025 Two professors at the University of Westmiinster ignored advice from their branch of UCU to participate in a conference on democracy and authoritarianism at the University of Tel Aviv, a longtime collaborator in Israel’s genocidal assault on Palestinians. Evidently, for them, academics should be free to speak wherever and whenever they want,…
Eminent academics at Columbia University demand enquiry into circumstances of Katherine Franke’s resignation
23 February 2025 Katherine Franke, a prominent law professor at Columbia University, faced unwarranted accusations from the University’s president and faced such intense pressure from its admiinistration for her pro-Palestinian advocacy that she eventually resigned her tenured post. As this report from the Middle East Eye describes, senior colleagues and emeritus staff from the law…
The Israeli academics who have urged on genocide in Gaza since 7 October 2023
23 February 2025 As this Middle East Eye report highlights, Israeli academics figure prominently among the advocates of genocide since 7 October 2023. Israeli academics lead way in advocating ‘process of extermination’ of Palestinians Middle East professors at Israel’s top universities openly justify starving Gaza civilians to pave way for the army’s military campaign By Nadav…
Home Office expels Turkish academic for possessing a well-known Hamas document on his phone
23 February 2025 As the Middle East Eye reports, a young Turkish academic working at a British university on a Global Talent visa with no record of extremist activity was refused permission to return to the UK after briefly going back to Turkey, solely on the grounds that he had downloaded a Hamas document explaining…
Goldsmiths University of London taken in again by pro-Israel activists, forced to apologise and compensate lecturer
23 February 2025 Several years ago, Goldsmiths was persuaded by pro-Israel activists to launch a lengthy and expensive investigation of antisemitism on campus which is still ongoing. We now learn from Middle East Eye that it has been obliged to apologise and financially compensate a lecturer for suspending him, thus disrupting his personal and professional…
Medical campaign: Israel accused of stealing organs for profit from dead Palestinians
23 February 2025 Mondoweiss publishes this important report from Healthcare Workers for Palestine drawing upon reliable sources for the claim that Israel continues its long documented practice of stealing organs – for profit – from Palestinian corpses in their possession. A brief history of Israel’s theft and trafficking of Palestinian organs There are over three…
Medical campaign: the need for the Palestinian perspective and leadership in Gaza health system reconstruction
18 February 2025 This article in Conflict and Health sets out a comprehensive critique of the supposedly “neutral” approach that has been widely circulated.
Medical campaign: Trauma care in Gaza supported through global telemedicine
18 February 2025 This important article from The Lancet describes the assistance provided to surgeons in Gaza from medical experts elsewhere via telemedicine.
A Jewish anthropologist on the future of Palestine
11 February 2025 Maura Finkelstein was a tenured professor of anthropologist at a private college in Pennsylvania until she expressed criticism of Zionist which led to her being fired: the first tenured professor in America to be fired for such a thought crime. Here, in this stimulating interview with the Real News Network, she describes…