22 January 2025 The MEE reports that five students at the University of Leicester have begun a hunger strike in an effort to persuade the University management to end its financial ties with Israel on account of its genocidal policy towards Gaza. The Universitymhas gone some way to meet protestors demands but evidently not nearly…
21 January 2025 For holding a brief, non-violent sit-in on campus where they called on the University to disclose and divest from investments in Israel, eleven students at NYU have been suspended for a year by the University management. As this report from the Middle East Eye indicates, the management hopes this will deter other…
12 January 2025 Over the past fourteen months, Katherine Franke, the James L. Dohr Professor of Law at the Columbia Law School in New York, did what any academic lawyer should do: assure students engaged in peaceful demonstrations of their legal rights and provide advice when the police and university authorities threaten to punish them…
7 January 2025 Veteran campaigner Dr Alice Rothchild in Mondoweiss reports on the appalling mistreatment of Dr Rupa Marya (pictured) of the University of California, San Francisco, who questioned the suitability of enrolling IDF veterans in universities or health care institutions without accountability or screening, given that they are likely to have participated in war…
7 January 2025 The historical profession is not notoriously left-leaning nor activist, so it is all the more noteworthy that the business meeting of the AHA, the oldest learned society in the US and one of the largest with 11,000 members, has voted by 428 to 88 for a resolution opposing scholasticide in Gaza. The…
5 January 2025 Some 20 student and faculty organisations at MIT have collaborated in a detailed expose of their University’s complicity in the genocide through its collaboration with the Israeli army and Israeli researchers linked to national arms firms. Predictably, the University has lashed out at student and faculty participants, making a mockery of its…
7 January 2025 Here is the second part of the Electronic Intifada report on MIT’s two-fold scandal: for collaborating with Israel on research contributing to the genocide in Gaza, and for making a mockery of its own principles in an effort to suppress faculty and student criticism. Exposing ties between MIT and Israel’s army Nora…
30 December 2024 As Joseph Massad of Columbia University explains here, Israel from its very foundation sought to represent Jews everywhere, despite the obvious fact that it did not and never has represented them all. Israel successfully pushed this obviously antisemitic claim on US and European governments, but academics and students across the West are…
30 December 2024 News items on the BRICUP website are normally restricted to those of immediate interest to academics and professionals or items written by academics, but with the New Year almost upon us we have included this remarkable survey of events and possible scenarios during Donald Trump’s second term by David Hearst (published last…
30 December 2024 Ever since he obtained his doctorate in 1998, Joseph Massad has been a target of the Israel lobby inside and outside Columbia University. Earlier this year, the then president of Columbia, Minouche Shafik, sought to save her own skin by fabricating claims against Massad in testimony before a deeply prejudiced Congressional Committee….