US academic, Anna Feder, was fired by Emerson College after 17 years working there, when she spoke up for Palestinian rights. Now she is suing the College for unfair dismissal. The following report is reproduced from Mondoweiss. 25 May 2025 I was fired from Emerson College for speaking out about Palestine, but I refuse to…
Four US academic legal scholars have published a legal analysis concluding that Israel is an apartheid state. Now they wait to see if they will be sacked for speaking the truth. 25 May 2025 We are human rights lawyers. Our new report is clear: Israel perpetrates apartheid Sandra L Babcock, Susan M Akram, Thomas Becker…
As Israel systematically destroys what remains of Gaza’s health system, the NHS responds to this man-made catastrophe … by suspending a doctor who protests against it. 25 May 2025 UK doctor suspended over Gaza posts Electronic Intifada 14 May 2025 For nearly 19 months, Israel, with financial, technological and political support from the US and…
In this article, Atalia Omer considers how the adoption by Harvard University of the IHRA ‘antisemitism’ definition, which conflates criticism of Israeli policies with antisemitism, has led the University to frame pro-Palestine actions at the university as ‘antisemitic’. She argues that this constitutes a threat not only to Palestine solidarity but to free speech and…
This is the revised and expanded Second Edition of the BRICUP case for boycotting Israeli academic institutions. Published in 2025 as Israel attempts to ethnically cleanse the Gaza Strip through a genocidal assault on its 2.3 million Palestinian residents and unleashes extremists from the illegal Jewish settlements to terrorise the Palestinians in the Occupied West…
20 May 2025 Student pressure over Gaza has at last caused King’s College to announce its intention to divest from arms firms. This is of course good news, but it invites the question: Why did the largely undergraduate student body recognize the ethical and political imperative to divest from such firms so long before the…
20 May 2025 Mathematicians worldwide have called on the board of the International Mathematics Olympiad to suspend Israel from participation in their forthcoming event in Australia. In the past the IMO has frequently taken a stand against major instances of injustice including most recently the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But, as the collective letter below…
19 May 2025 Will UK universities respond to Israel’s Gaza Scholasticide? (The link to the Academic Commitment follows) One of the Israel’s targets in Gaza has been its education system, which it has largely destroyed. All of Gaza’s universities have been bombed, and most are now in ruins. Not only the buildings have been targeted:…
19 May 2025 Here is Haaretz’s startling report on the growing impact of the academic boycott on Israel’s universities. Sign the Academic Commitment here, to strengthen the boycott. Israeli Academia Faces Hundreds of ’Explicit’ Boycotts by Foreign Universities, Report Says Israel News- Haaretz.com Feb 25, 2025 12:09 pm IST Israeli researchers have reported hundreds of…
16 May 2025 The Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, insists upon applying the IHRA definition to NHS personnel. As the Electronic Intifada reports, this has led to the suspension of a UK doctor merely for telling the truth about Israel’s deadly assault on Gaza in his social media posts. Can the Labour government possibly sink further…