Success at the University of Sussex: Academic Boycott in Action
18 December 2024 The decision of the University of Sussex to host a joint conference with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on its campus was an act of breathtaking insensitivity. The conference, on “Displacement, Forced Migration and Reparation: Comparisons and Controversies”, co-organized by the Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex and the…
EU scandalously continues funding Israel research including arms development
18 December 2024 Despite the call from the International Court of Justice to all UN members to halt any support for Israel’s probable genocidal assault on Gaza, the EU continues its support of Israeli research much of which assists the country’s military, as this important Al Jazeera report confirms. EU research funds flow to Israel…
The Open University (UK) and Arab Open University (AOU) Launch Fund for Palestinian Students
17 December 2024 The Arab Open University (AOU) and The Open University (OU) have announced the establishment of a hardship fund of £100,000 for Palestinian students from Gaza and Lebanon to support them in completing their studies with the AOU. The AOU and OU have established that 1,583 Palestinian students are studying with the AOU…
The American medical establishment is silent over the genocide in Gaza. Why?
17 December 2024 What is one to make of the American medical establishment including its leading journals, which have remained stubbornly silent over the genocide unfolding before us all? Mondoweiss has published this excellent analysis including a compelling answer to the question. (Pictured is Dr Eric Rubin, editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine,…
The appalling fate of Palestinian doctors in Israeli hands
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…
500+ international academics petition St Andrews University to reverse decision to silence Rector over criticism of Israel’s Gaza assault
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…
BBC confirms bias against Palestinians by cancelling Professor Ilan Pappe’s role in podcast
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…
Sussex University collaborates with Hebrew University (of course) on ethnic cleansing conference
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…
Medical campaign
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….