19 June 2025 The Oxford Union has been holding debates on the most urgent issues of the day for over 200 years and until now it has never been censured. But a speech by the best-selling Palestinian-American author Susan Abulhawa last November has so angered members of the Union’s shadowy board of trustees that they…

18 June 2025 Avi Shlaim is a distinguished historian of the Middle East, an Emeritus Professor of International Relations at Oxford University and an Israeli by birth who once served in the IDF. No one could be better qualified to evaluate the place of Hamas in the current crisis and the importance of keeping open…

17 June 2025 KCL’s UCU branch has called for a consultative ballot on academic freedom and staff safeguarding to end the administration’s harassing of colleagues who speak out for Palestine including by the lengthy and intrusive investigation of their social media posts including those posted long before they even joined KCL. Consultative ballot on academic…

16 June 2025 A report by the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territories including East Jerusalem has condemned Israel’s systematic destruction of Palestinian educational, religious and cultural sites in Gaza. The list of charges against Israel covers several pages. No one who reads this report can be in any doubt that Israel…

13 June 2025 Harvard University is faced with grotesque penalties from the Trump Administration on the grounds that the University has failed to address antisemitism on campus. But as 27 Jewish scholars of Jewish studies – including Barry Trachtenberg (pictured) – point out in this Guardian article, Harvard’s own management has complicated the situation by…

8 June 2025 Academics from around Europe mounted a petition calling upon the EU to suspend its partnership agreement with Israel providing privileged access to EU institutions, since Israel clearly fails to meet the requirement in the agreement to respect human rights. Google immediately took down the petition and suspended the academic who posted it….

7 June 2025 Two University of Birmingham students who have spent near a year under threat of expulsion for peacefully demonstrating for an end to University investments favouring Israel have had their cases dropped, after a sustained campaign by fellow students with support from the European Legal Support Centre. Here is the ELSC report. Case…

7 June 2025 For years students, with support from faculty, have been campaigning courageously for BDS at universities across Europe, North America and beyond. Now at last the first university has acceded to their demands: Trinity College Dublin. Here is reportage from Action for Palestine (AfD) TCS and below that from The Times of Israel…

7 June 2025 Students supported by members of the faculty have scored another victory, this time at Queen’s University Belfast where the management has agreed to divest from all investments in Israel, according to this report in The Irish News online. Queen’s University confirms end to Israeli investments Move follows decision from Trinity College Dublin…

5 June 2025 After years of student campaigns, the board of TCD has finally agreed to cease all ties with Israeli universities and other institutions, including investments and student exchanges, as reported in The Irish Times. In light of the deep implication of Israeli universities in the Israeli state’s ongoing genocide, all universities in the…