11 April 2025 Aviva Chomsky is Professor of History at Salem State University in Massachusetts. Her brilliant critique of Trump’s policies, which mirror 17th century British colonial policy towards its West Indian colonies, is reprinted from TomDispatch. Posted on April 10, 2025 Trump Faces Palestine The Colonial View of the World Never Dies By Aviva Chomsky In…
11 April 2025 The Institut d’Etudes Politiques (IEP) in Strasbourg is one of a network of prestigious degree-giving colleges funded and controlled by the national Ministry of Higher Education. Its students and faculty have expressed overwhelming opposition to continuing its partnership with the Reichman University in Israel on account of Israel’s gross human rights violations…
11 April 2025 The following letter describes just the sort of influence-peddling that academics and professionals must call out or resist. 9 April 2025 Hi all, I am a psychiatrist in training from the Netherlands, Amsterdam. We went to the EPA (European Psychiatric Association) conference in Madrid, where I found out TEVA [the Israeli pharmaceutical…
10 April 2025 This article in The Forward by Paul Nahme, Professor of Jewish Studies at Brown University in Rhode Island [pictured], expresses a widely shared criticism of President Trump’s charges of antisemitism against American universities: they are shutting down intellectual life on campus and exposing Jewish faculty and students to charges that they are…
17 March 2025 Friends of Birzeit University (FOBZU) has published a highly useful guide to promoting support for Palestinian universities through partnerships, scholarships, research collaboration, etc. Details are contained in the Guide below. Partnerships with Palestine Guide CLICK HERE TO ACCESS GUIDE This guide equips UK academics and administrators with practical ways to support Gaza’s…
7 April 2025 Properly regulated, archaeology contributes enormously to our understanding of the past, but in rogue states such as Israel it is frequently used to obscure the truth about past civilisations and prop up falsehoods to justify their presence on the land. Thus complicit archaeologists ignore inconvenient layers of evidence and even destroy them…
Sixteen months of bombings and attacks have decimated Gaza’s health system and workforce. Palestinian doctors tell Elisabeth Mahase of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) about the effects on mental health, what needs to happen next, and how UK doctors can help. 6 March, 2025 Gaza’s health system is “completely eviscerated”—what happens now? BMJ 2025; 388 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r361 (Published 25 February 2025) Cite…
6 April 2025 As The Intercept reports, Germany has taken the decision to deport a Pole, an American and two Irish students for the “crime” of participating in demonstrations in support of Palestine. Thus tragically Zionism has undermined democratic values of free speech and assembly in yet one more country. Germany Turns to U.S. Playbook:…
6 April 2025 Israel’s Palestinian students suffer a two-fold psychological torture, having to live with the daily news of the genocide in Gaza and the total indifference and potential aggression of their Jewish Israeli fellow students. +972Magazine describes their plight. The schizophrenic existence of Palestinian students on Israeli campuses We’ve learned to suppress our identity…
6 April 2025 Dr Swee Ang, FRCS, was born in Penang, Malaysia. She grew up and studied in Singapore. In 1973 she obtained her medical degree and in 1976 her master’s in occupational medicine at the University of Singapore. She was silver medallist for her undergrad, and gold medallist for her master’s. She joined her husband…