10 March 2025 According to the following report in The Architect’s Newspaper, the directors of the Association of the Collegiate Schools of Architecture which publishes the peer reviewed Journal of Architectural Education commissioned a special issue of the journal on Palestine, issued a call for papers, then, rather than face down outside pressure and risk…
6 March 2025 As this article from Jewish News explains, the Home Office will be closely monitoring an academic event at the LSE to discuss a new book, Understanding Hamas and Why that Matters, and has threatened participants that if they appear to sympathise with the Palestinians who are resisting Israel’s illegal siege of Gaza…
To sign, click here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/urgent-stop-the-growing-crackdown-on-students-protesting-genocide/ The Donald Trump government is not only backing Netanyahu’s plan for the total ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip, but also attempting to muzzle and criminalise anyone who opposes this criminal act. Help oppose Trump’s criminal behaviour by signing this petition – almost half a million people have already signed….
Since October 2023, Israel has set about systematically destroying the infrastructure of Gaza’s universities – a crucial part of its now openly admitted plan to ethnically cleanse the entire population of the Gaza Strip. 6 March 2025 The decimation of Gaza’s academia is ‘impossible to quantify’ With thousands of faculty and students likely killed and…
As Israel, backed openly by the Donald Trump’s government in Washington, moves to try and ethnically cleanse Gaza, the Guardian reports on Israel’s targeting of Gaza’s health workers. 6 March 2025 The doctors detained in Gaza: ‘He was dragged from the operating theatre’ – podcast https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2025/mar/03/the-doctors-detained-in-gaza-he-was-dragged-from-the-operating-theatre-podcast Doctors in Gaza say they have been targeted for…
Oxford University has large investments in Elbit Weapons Systems, responsible for production of 85% of Israel’s military drones and directly linked to documented war crimes against Palestinians. University staff and students, local activists and Palestine Action, are pushing back. 6 March 2025 After Oxford, Cambridge University just got reminded of its bloody investments in Israel…
Across Britain, universities have £ hundreds of millions invested in Israeli apartheid and the Israeli war machine. Across Britain, too, academics and students are refusing to accept this grotesque situation. 6 March 2025 After Oxford, Cambridge University just got reminded of its bloody investments in Israel In the early hours of 4 March, a group…
Columbia University using secret processes to punish pro-Palestine students As in Britain, so in America, universities are taking extreme measures to silence pro-Palestine voices. Eve while Donald Trump threatens sweeping action against “illegal protest” on US university campuses, Columbia University is already using secret processes to punish pro-Palestine students Columbia University’s Secret Disciplinary Process for…
7 March 2025 The Middle East Studies Association’s Committee on Academic Freedom have called on Governor Hochul (pictured) and the officials of Hunter College to reverse their demand that an advertisement of a post in Palestine Studies be removed (see our article of 5 March.) This is an eminently reasonable request, but when it comes…
5 March 2025 As this report from The Guardian describes, Israel has detained, tortured and allowed to suffer and die from deliberate neglect large numbers of doctors, nurses and other medical personnel from Gaza. The decision to leave Gazans without medical care is part and parcel of Israel’s genocidal policy. The Israel Medical Association (IMA),…