30 April 2025 Among other research universities, Northwestern has been a target of Trump’s financial assault. Now, in a remarkable display of solidarity, the University’s faculty assembly has voted overwhelmingly to support a motion drafted by the local AAUP setting out the action to be taken against the Administration’s attempt to undermine independent thinking and…

Here is a list of the books removed earlier this month from the shelves of the Nimitz Library at the US Naval Academy in Maryland. The list is helpfully provided by the Department of Defense. Among the 381 dangerous books removed are the following: 316 Kate Normington, Gender and medieval drama (2004). Contents described as:…

’26 April 2025 The American administration’s moves to deport students who advocate an end to genocide in Gaza has overshadowed the similar anti-democratic behaviour of several European governments, as this article by Jodie Jones in Mondoweiss describes. How European governments are using deportation to disrupt and criminalize Palestine solidarity It is not just pro-Palestinian students…

25 April 2025 For years, Zionists have pressured governments, universities and other public bodies to adopt the IHRA definition together with its eleven “illustrations” which equate criticism of Israel with antisemitism. Now American academics are pushing back, as Joel Beinin (pictured) explains in this article for the Middle East Eye. Why I violated the IHRA…

25 April 2025 Young Palestinians are the best educated cohort in the whole of the Arab world, a fact that has long disturbed Israeli officials. It is therefore not surprising that Israel has gone out of its way to destroy the whole infrastructure of education in Gaza At least one-third of Gaza’s population are children…

23 April 2025 This excellent article by Tariq Kenney-Shawa for Al-Shabaka on the promotion of Project Esther to undermine pro-Palestine advocacy and defend the crumbling Zionist narrative refers to the US alone. But if history is any guide, we can expect that it, or basic components of it, will soon be introduced here in the…

22 April 2025 Some UK universities have divested from Israel – no doubt concerned with reputational damage – but despite the sustained efforts of PSC, JVL, BRICUP and other organisations to highlight Israel’s appalling policies of illegal land seizures, ethnic cleansing, bribery and genocide, most UK universities have done practically nothing to distance themselves from…

As the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports, in the latest assault on Palestinian rights by the American government, Trump has frozen over $2 billion to Harvard University after it refused to suppress pro-Palestine actions by staff and students. 21 April 2025 Trump Freezes Over $2b in Funding to Harvard After It Refuses to Accept Reform Demands…

As reported by Middle East Eye, Goldsmiths, University of London has apologised unreservedly to lecturer, Ray Campbell, after it pursed false ‘antisemitism’ allegations against him made by pro-Israel groups. Campbell commented to Middle East Eye, “When I saw the accusations against me, the first instinct was to laugh. The evidence was so shoddy. If my…