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Have you signed the European Declaration of Conscientious Objection?

21 September 2025 The European Declaration of Conscientious Objection, which corresponds very closely to our Academic Commitment (see About Us, above), is printed below. We urge you to read and sign it. EUROPEAN DECLARATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION No academia as usual during Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide in Palestine Sign the European Declaration here ↓ We, the…

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“Why Boycott Israeli Universities?” The second, revised edition of the BRICUP booklet is available to read or download here

This is the revised and expanded Second Edition of the BRICUP case for boycotting Israeli academic institutions. Published in 2025 as Israel attempts to ethnically cleanse the Gaza Strip through a genocidal assault on its 2.3 million Palestinian residents and unleashes extremists from the illegal Jewish settlements to terrorise the Palestinians in the Occupied West…

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The apparent failure of university administrators and newspaper editors to grasp the seriousness of the genocide in Gaza

20 September 2025 The letter by Professor Jonathan Rosenhead, vice-chair of BRICUP, to the Guardian reprinted below speaks volumes about the moral crisis we face today in Britain. As Professor Rosenhead points out, the Palestine civil society call for an academic and cultural boycott of Israel was issued in 2004, 21 years ago, and has…

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Here’s another analogy from history: this time of the hypocrisy of imperialists such as those now governing Israel

19 September 2025 Raymond Geuss, emeritus professor of philosophy at Cambridge, draws a stimulating parallel between the leaders of the Roman empire and the current Israeli empire, both of whom have lost themselves in self-justification and greed. Thanks to JVL for drawing the editor’s attention to this article in the New Left Review. Gallia and…

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Want to know how Israel’s aggression will end? Here’s a provocative historical precedent to Netanyahu’s foolish nationalist ambitions

Readers of the articles on this website may enjoy this stimulating essay from The Realist Review which draws a startling parallel between the Greek prime minister Eleftherios Venizelos (pictured) who sought to exploit Turkey’s temporary weakness at the end of the First World War to create a vast Greek empire on its territory and Netanyahu…

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Israeli’s genocidal aggression in Gaza rapidly strengthens support for academic boycott

11 September 2025 The discussion in Research Europe reproduced below highlights the rapid growth of support in Europe for an academic boycott of Israel, despite continuing misunderstandings about the nature of the boycott call and the justification for it. The Palestine Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), the Palestinian civil society…

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