22 January 2025 Harvard University, facing lawsuits for allegedly failing to protect Jewish students from antisemitism on campus, has agreed to employ the IHRA definition of antisemitism when sanctioning students for demonstrating against, or even openly criticising, Israel’s Apartheid and genocidal policies. As is by now well known, the eleven “illustrations” appended to the IHRA…

22 January 2025 As reported by Friends of Birzeit University, UK academics and university administrators met in Glasgow to discuss how they can assist in the reconstruction of Gaza higher education – when this becomes possible. But when will this be? UK academics commit to standing with Gaza universities at University of Glasgow’s Reconstructing Gaza…

Dr Mohammedwesaam Amer writes from his refuge in Cambridge this article in the Journal of Palestine Studies of the scholasticide, its devastating impact upon students and faculty alike – those who are still alive – and how the challenge should be met. Journal of Palestine Studies To cite this article: Mohammedwesam Amer (17 Jan 2025):…

21 January 2025 As the excellent Intercept article reproduced below details, MIT’s management is struggling to suppress publicity of its involvement in Israel’s genocidal assault on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, but faculty and student activists have thoroughly exposed its complicity. MIT Shuts Down Internal Grant Database After It Was Used to Research…

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…