As Middle East Eye reports, the University of Essex has abandoned its ludicrous attempt to expel six students after they shared posts from the respected news outlets Middle East Eye and Al Jazeera discussing the death of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. The decision followed and intervention by the Gina Romero, UN Special Rapporteur on the…
18 April 2025 Trump’s weaponisation of antisemitism is a cynical abuse of a legitimate concern that benefits no one and nothing, as this Haaretz article explains 17 April 2025 Combating Antisemitism? Trump’s War on Universities Will Only Make Jews Less Safe It is becoming increasingly clear that the White House’s effort to reshape higher education…
13 April 2025 The Physicians for Human Rights Israel report of Feb. 26, 2025 details how Israel is targeting Gaza’s aid workers – both in Gaza, where hospitals are systematically bombed, and in Israel, where Gaza’s doctors, nurses and paramedics are subject to a regime of abuse and torture. Torture of Medical Workers in Israel…
11 April 2025 Aviva Chomsky is Professor of History at Salem State University in Massachusetts. Her brilliant critique of Trump’s policies, which mirror 17th century British colonial policy towards its West Indian colonies, is reprinted from TomDispatch. Posted on April 10, 2025 Trump Faces Palestine The Colonial View of the World Never Dies By Aviva Chomsky In…
11 April 2025 The Institut d’Etudes Politiques (IEP) in Strasbourg is one of a network of prestigious degree-giving colleges funded and controlled by the national Ministry of Higher Education. Its students and faculty have expressed overwhelming opposition to continuing its partnership with the Reichman University in Israel on account of Israel’s gross human rights violations…
11 April 2025 The following letter describes just the sort of influence-peddling that academics and professionals must call out or resist. 9 April 2025 Hi all, I am a psychiatrist in training from the Netherlands, Amsterdam. We went to the EPA (European Psychiatric Association) conference in Madrid, where I found out TEVA [the Israeli pharmaceutical…
10 April 2025 This article in The Forward by Paul Nahme, Professor of Jewish Studies at Brown University in Rhode Island [pictured], expresses a widely shared criticism of President Trump’s charges of antisemitism against American universities: they are shutting down intellectual life on campus and exposing Jewish faculty and students to charges that they are…
17 March 2025 Friends of Birzeit University (FOBZU) has published a highly useful guide to promoting support for Palestinian universities through partnerships, scholarships, research collaboration, etc. Details are contained in the Guide below. Partnerships with Palestine Guide CLICK HERE TO ACCESS GUIDE This guide equips UK academics and administrators with practical ways to support Gaza’s…
7 April 2025 Properly regulated, archaeology contributes enormously to our understanding of the past, but in rogue states such as Israel it is frequently used to obscure the truth about past civilisations and prop up falsehoods to justify their presence on the land. Thus complicit archaeologists ignore inconvenient layers of evidence and even destroy them…
Sixteen months of bombings and attacks have decimated Gaza’s health system and workforce. Palestinian doctors tell Elisabeth Mahase of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) about the effects on mental health, what needs to happen next, and how UK doctors can help. 6 March, 2025 Gaza’s health system is “completely eviscerated”—what happens now? BMJ 2025; 388 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r361 (Published 25 February 2025) Cite…