Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza has been accompanied by scholasticide – every university in Gaza has been destroyed or rendered unusable. At BRICUP we have intensified our efforts to assist the universities of Gaza and the Occupied West Bank whose very survival is now threatened. Among other things we have resisted Zionist efforts to tamper…
5 October 2025 Protesting Northwestern U’s Flawed Compulsory Training on Criticism of Israel as “Antisemitism” 10/04/2025 President Trump’s attempt to intimidate American universities into adopting his perverted values has led to a major controversy at Northwestern University in Evanston Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. The University has made a course on “antisemitism” a pre-requisite for…
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 Bank in the attempt to seize their land, this Second Edition sets out compelling evidence of the…
19 May 2025 Will UK universities respond to Israel’s Gaza Scholasticide? (The link to the Academic Commitment follows) One of the Israel’s targets in Gaza has been its education system, which it has largely destroyed. All of Gaza’s universities have been bombed, and most are now in ruins. Not only the buildings have been targeted:…
25 September 2025 The BRICUP website normally focusses upon academic-related news, but with leaders of Western states queueing up to repeat their ritual pronouncements for a two-state solution, while remaining silent on how they would overcome Israel’s rigid opposition to a Palestinian state or even how they would contribute to a ceasefire in Gaza or…
24 September 2025 Despite the decision of the UK, France, Canada and Australia formally to recognise a Palestinian state, the presence of nearly 800,000 aggressive, fascistic Israeli settlers illegally occupying the West Bank and East Jerusalem as well as parts of Syria and Lebanon makes it difficult to imagine the establishment of a coherent Palestinian…
21 September 2025 M. J. Rosenberg, who once worked for AIPAC but saw the light, maintains a very stimulating substack blog devoted to Israel/Palestine and the American Israel lobby. Here he republishes Haaretz’s report on the growing impact of BDS upon Israel. It understates the significance of BDS, and not least academic boycott, before 7…
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…
20 September 2025 The surrender by the administrators of the University of California Berkeley (San Francisco) has been highlighted in a post published on this site five days ago. The response by Berkeley faculty published by Mondoweiss is reprinted below. Berkeley faculty and staff members: We condemn the school’s surrender to Trump, and we will…
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…
