11 November 2024 The US Modern Language Association, the largest academic association in the world, would have voted on BDS at its AGM early next year and all the signs are it would have approved it. But as this report in The Chronicle of Higher Education explains, a vote now seems unlikely because the executive…
11 November 2024 Armistice Day is an appropriate time to remember the strong links between universities and the military. Admittedly, the US is a more thorough-going warfare state than the UK or its Continental neighbours, as this excellent article by William Hartung (pictured) in Tom Dispatch describes. The links here are nonetheless strong. The Pentagon…
“We built these universities from tents. And from tents, with the support of our friends, we will rebuild them once again.”Unified Call from Palestinian academics and administrators of Gaza Universities, 29 April 2024 Join us to hear first-hand from Palestinian academics and campaigners about how Palestinian Higher Education institutions are resisting erasure through the collective work…
19 November 2024 More than 500 mathematicians, primarily from France but increasingly from around the world, have signed a statement condemning the ongoing genocide in Gaza. They are calling on the scientific community to suspend all collaborations with Israeli institutions that do not explicitly denounce the genocide in Gaza and the illegal colonization of Palestine. The signatories…
4 November 2024 Model Motion on Academic BDS This branch notes: · the ongoing carnage in the Gaza Strip, the extension of the conflict to indiscriminate bombing and assassinations in Lebanon, and the threat of a regional war in the Middle East; · the systematic destruction of all of Gaza’s universities, and the targeted killing…
16 July 2024 The intolerable rabbi at Leeds University: a chronology of outrage and extremism Zecharia Deutsch was Jewish chaplain at Leeds University (also at Leeds Beckett University, and the Universities of York, Hull, Huddersfield, Bradford and Sheffield) from 2021 to2024. In November 2023, Deutsch was called up, or perhaps volunteered, to fight in Israel’s…
The Rabbi, the rapper and the ‘demeritus’ professor: Shadows of Israel’s brutal war on Gaza at the University of Leeds (UK) July 17 2024 Once again, activists in the British Union of Jewish Students (UJS), encouraged by other pro-Israel elements, have targeted a professor known for his support for Palestinian human rights, with the aim of…
22 October 2024 It has long been known that British universities hold massive investments in the Israeli war machine. Now, for the first time, students and staff at one British University, Warwick, have analysed those investments in detail. University of Warwick staff and students outline complicity in Israel’s war crimes and genocide October 22, 2024…
14 October 2024 In a shocking development Israeli academics are now coming out openly in support of the extermination of the Palestinians in Gaza. Time, surely, for the West to boycott Israeli academia. Middle East professors at Israel’s top universities openly justify starving Gaza civilians to pave way for the army’s military campaign By Nadav…
14 October 2024. In Feb. 2024, in a landmark decision, an employment tribunal ruled that Prof David Miller was unfairly dismissed, and that his “anti-Zionist beliefs qualified as a philosophical belief and as a protected characteristic pursuant to section 10 Equality Act 2010”. In its report, just published, the tribunal has concluded that he belief…