2 August 2026 Taqwa Ahmed Alwawi in Palestine Deep Dive describes how foreign academics have helped students – and academics – in Gaza to endure Israel’s continuing genocidal onslaught. Surely more can, and should, be done on these lines? The Courses That Became Lifelines in Gaza While bombs fell and Gaza was cut off from…
2 August 2026 Lord Mann, the former right-wing Labour MP, friend of Israel and the government’s so-called independent advisor on antisemitism, recently claimed that in a survey of 56 UK universities “not one knew of or could provide a single example in which the IHRA definition had in any ways restricted freedom of speech or…
The abject surrender of the University of Massachusetts Amherst to pressure from Washington and the Zionist lobby illustrates just how far the campaign has gone to silence any discussion of Israeli aggression against Palestinians and others in American universities. The cost of this suppression, to individual teachers, students, university reputations and national understanding of US…
31 July 2026 The British establishment has closed ranks to defend Israel from the criticisms its war crimes and ‘plausible’ genocide deserve and require. All its functionaries, from police chiefs through bank officials and Vice-Chancellors to the General Medical Council, toe the Government’s line. As often as not the infamous IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism…
27 July 2026 Please consider signing this petition in support of medievalist, Julien Théry, who has been sacked by University Lumière Lyon 2 for supporting Palestine: https://framaforms.org/julien-thery-must-be-allowed-to-work-and-teach-again-revoke-his-punishment-supporting-palestine-is. For more details, see below. Julien Théry must be allowed to work and teach again! Revoke his punishment: supporting Palestine is not a crime! Julien Théry must be…
27 July 2026 Across mainland Europe, as in Britain and America, Palestine solidarity in universities is under assault. But Palestine rights supporters are fighting back – with increasing success, as this story from France shows. France court overturns decision to ban academic conference on Palestine The decision to cancel the Palestine conference sparked debate over…
This investigation by Aaron Walawalkar for Al-Jazeera and Liberty Investigates exposes the heavy-handed, unprincipled methods employed by KCL (and possibly other universities including Oxford, UCL and Cardiff) to intimidate and suppress pro-Palestine student activism. Sadly, it’s not surprising that the university administrators have chosen to ignore their implication in the genocide taking place in Palestine…
6 July 2026 Sitting Tawjihi, Palestine’s equivalent of A-levels in England or Scottish Highers, has always been a challenge, but since they went online after 7 October 2023 they have become a nightmare for students in Gaza, as this article by Ruweida Amer in +972 explains. High school final exam season is stressful. In Gaza,…
3 July 2026 In action all too typical of Israeli forces, IDF soldiers brutally forced their way onto the Birzeit University campus in order to destroy murals depicting Palestinian heroes. Here is The Palestine Chronicle report. Israeli Forces Raid Birzeit University, Destroy Palestinian Murals in West Bank June 29, 2026 News By Palestine Chronicle Staff Israeli forces…
3 July 2026 In 2023 Melat Kiros, an Ethiopian immigrant, was fired from her job with a New York City law firm for her pro-Palestine activism, but she held firmly to her principles and has just won a remarkable victory over an AIPAC-funded incumbent, practically ensuring her place in Congress in November. Here is a…
