Columbia University using secret processes to punish pro-Palestine students As in Britain, so in America, universities are taking extreme measures to silence pro-Palestine voices. Eve while Donald Trump threatens sweeping action against “illegal protest” on US university campuses, Columbia University is already using secret processes to punish pro-Palestine students Columbia University’s Secret Disciplinary Process for…
7 March 2025 The Middle East Studies Association’s Committee on Academic Freedom have called on Governor Hochul (pictured) and the officials of Hunter College to reverse their demand that an advertisement of a post in Palestine Studies be removed (see our article of 5 March.) This is an eminently reasonable request, but when it comes…
5 March 2025 As this report from The Guardian describes, Israel has detained, tortured and allowed to suffer and die from deliberate neglect large numbers of doctors, nurses and other medical personnel from Gaza. The decision to leave Gazans without medical care is part and parcel of Israel’s genocidal policy. The Israel Medical Association (IMA),…
5 March 2025 The following is a damning report from Truthout on the condition of Palestinians released in exchange for Israeli hostages in Gaza. As Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor writes: “[T]he atrocities occurring in these prisons are among the worst violations recorded by human rights organizations worldwide. [Torture] is a part of Israel’s crime of…
5 March 2025 While President Trump threatens to halt federal funding to universities that tolerate further demonstrations, meaning of course demonstrations in support of an end to genocide in Gaza and justice for all Palestinians in the region, Governor Hochul of New York has ordered the removal of an advertisement for a post in Palestine…
4 March 2025 Lee Mordechai, an historian at the Hebrew University, has published a vastly detailed account of Israel’s assault on Gaza. This is an enormously valuable resource for anyone seriously interested in what has actually happened there, As Mordechai affirms, it leaves no doubt that a genocide has taken place. The document – the…
4 March 2025 Students and faculty at the University of Granada persuaded the administration to break ties with Israeli institutions. A pro-Israel organisation challenged the legality of this decision in the local court. The court has rejected the challenge. While an appeal to a higher court remains possible, even likely, the strength of support for…
2 March 2025 Australian universities came under pressure from pro-Israel groups who secured the backing of Parliament to demand that the universities adopt a definition of antisemitism that protect Israel from criticism. They succeeded. Despite expressions of regret from pro-Israel groups that the IHRA definition itself was not adopted, the new definition is at least…
2 March 2025 Noura Erakat (pictured), in this thoughtful article in the Boston Review, describes the boomerang effect of America’s decades long support for Israel’s brutal repression and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. Historians have described the dangerous blowback from America’s practically unending wars of repression in Latin America and the Caribean. Its support for…
2 March 2025 As Anat Matar, recently of Tel Aviv University, explains in this article in The Nation, large numbers of fellow Israeli academics participate in protests against the anti-democratic actions of their government but seem unable to recognise that fighting for Palestinian rights is equally essential for Israel’s democracy. The Nation February 27, 2025…