17 December 2024 The BMJ has published this account of the appalling fate of Adnan Al-Bursh, a prominent surgeon who trained at King’s College Hospital London, after being taken prisoner by Israeli forces in Gaza. Al-Bursh is only one of many Palestinian medical personnel and healthcare workers who have been seized and tortured or killed…
15 December 2024 In November 2023 Stella Maris took office as the Rector of the University of St Andrews, elected by its students. Maris emailed students about the events following from 7 October including Hamas’ terrorist actions and Israel’s genocidal response, and called for a ceasefire. As invariably happens in these situations, one or more…
13 December 2024 Ilan Pappe is an Israeli-born historian, the director of Exeter University’s European Centre for Palestine Studies and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies. He is the author of more than a dozen books and an internationally recognised authority on Israeli history and the Israel/Palestine conflict. The BBC invited him to…
13 December 2024 You couldn’t make it up! Sussex University decided to hold a conference on “Displacement, Forced Migration and Reparation” and invited the Hebrew University to collaborate with it. How could the organisers not know of the Hebrew University’s decades long complicity in ethnic cleansing: its special treatment for IDF soldiers, its links with…
Dear World Medical Association Council Chair, Dr Edward Hill and the Council We the undersigned 725 physicians represent both academic medicine (114 professors) andclinical practice in 43 countries. A matter of grave concern to us, and a threat to the publicreputation of the World Medical Association, has brought us together in this perhapsunprecedented medical initiative….
3 December 2024 1300 Japanese researchers have expressed their horror at the ongoing genocide in Gaza and call on the Japanese Government and the International Community. In their words, “The attitude of the Netanyahu administration, continuing war and mass killings in defiance of international law, reminds us of the path taken by Japan in the…
3 December 2024 Benny Morris was once one of Israel’s “new historians” who, drawing upon archival evidence, exposed many of the myths employed to justify Israel’s foundation and expansion well beyond the UN partition line. He has since become a house historian, defending the Israeli record of ethnic cleansing and apartheid. Students at Leipzig University,…
3 December 2024 Susan Abulhawa has posted her speech at the Oxford Union last Thursday, along with a description of the arrangements that preceded the event. Her speech is one of the powerful condemnations of Zionist practice ever uttered. Both documents are worth reading. Susan Abulhawa’s website has mysteriously crashed, so the documents below are…
30 November 2024 Yves Engler, who was expelled years ago from his Quebec university for organising demonstrations against a visit by Binjamin Netanyahu, describes in his blog the prolonged struggle of McGill University students to demonstrate their solidarity with Palestine in face of a trio of pro-Zionist antidemocratic forces, the University administration, billionaire University benefactors…
30 November 2024 The Oxford Student publishes the following, more detailed, account of the Oxford Union debate last Thursday. 29th November 2024 Ex-IDF soldier and former spy for Israel among surprise speakers at Union Palestine debate Yunzhang Liang, Peter Lenahan and Cameron Samuel Keys On November 29th, the Oxford Union debated the motion, “This House…