Home > All News Items and Articles The Congressional hearings on 5 December on higher education attracted worldwide interest when the presidents of three elite universities faced aggressive questioning on their handling of supposedly antisemitic demonstrations on campus. Two of the presidents, of the Universities of Pennsylvania and Harvard, subsequently resigned. This has generated more…
Home > All News Items and Articles As late as 2023, secular Jews in pre-1967 Israel were seeking to defend the liberal democratic character of their country – for its Jewish citizens. But as Professor Ilan Pappe and others have long argued, the attempt to maintain a liberal democratic regime within Israel alongside a repressive…
Home > All News Items and Articles With a minimum publicity, the government has been promoting “two sides-ism” in English schools and colleges. The programme, devised by a pro-Israel organisation, has been targeted at schools and colleges with a large Muslim student intake, but resistance to it is growing. The original report on this supposedly…
Home > All News Items and Articles As might have been expected, the UK government is flourishing funds to promote collaboration with Israel, and regrettably no fewer than 12 UK universities have agreed to take it. By their collaboration, they are becoming complicit in one of the greatest assault on human rights in modern times…
Home > All News Items and Articles Israel’s assault on Palestinian education system and the number of victims among its students and teachers almost defies description. The latest report of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs confirms that between 7 October and 26 December 352 schools in Gaza have been damaged, affecting…
South Africa’s submission to the International Court of Justice sets out in impressive detail the horrific consequences of Israel’s assault on Gaza – so far. Nearly half the 2.3 million residents of Gaza are children. Their plight and that of older students are described in paragraphs 44, 48-9, 52-4, 86, 88, 90, 92-3 of the…
The petition below, initiated in South Africa, invites academics and scholars to support South Africa’s submission to the International Court of Justice against Israel’s violation of the 1948 Genocide Convention and call for an interim injunction against any further assault on Gaza. The original version including the link to the signing form, published in the…
Home > All News Items and Articles The First Amendment of the US Constitution is designed to guarantee free speech and, among other things, academic freedom. It states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or…
Judith Butler discusses the legitimacy of support for Palestine including the resort to force in its emancipatory struggle, and the decision of American university administrators to censor this support. As she argues, this is a necessary debate, and its suppression, including at Harvard under President Claudine Gay, contributes to the mass killing in Gaza and…
Home > All News Items and Articles For four years the Guardian never missed an opportunity to tar Jeremy Corbyn with the brush of antisemitism until a confused and suspicious public turned against him at the polls, thus opening the way for the zealously pro-Israel Sir Keir Starmer to replace him as leader of the…