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Campus Voices for Palestine (1)

Campus Voices for Palestine a UK-wide campaign to resist the suppression of Palestine advocacy and any interference with academic freedom in Middle Eastern research ‘Palestine – will not be silenced or erased!’ Dr. Husam Zomlot, Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, delivered a spirited defence of Palestine advocacy in British Higher Education at the launch meeting…

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Campus Voices for Palestine (2)

Home > All News Items and Articles Academic Freedom, Free Speech and Palestine Solidarity Campus Voices for Palestine a UK-wide campaign to resist the suppression of Palestine advocacy and any interference with academic freedom in Middle Eastern research ‘Palestine will not be silenced or erased!’ The campaign was launched at the end of January with…

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University of Birmingham suppresses free speech on Israel/Palestine

In a worrying development, the University of Birmingham Administration ordered a discussion of the crisis in Palestine wholly within the Law Department in November to be cancelled on preposterously inadequate grounds. The Dean of the Law School initially endorsed the cancellation on scarcely less spurious grounds, then apologised. But the Administration has since failed to…

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The Right in US weaponises antisemitism to attack liberal higher education. Will UK be next?

Home > All News Items and Articles The Congressional hearings on 5 December on higher education attracted worldwide interest when the presidents of three elite universities faced aggressive questioning on their handling of supposedly antisemitic demonstrations on campus. Two of the presidents, of the Universities of Pennsylvania and Harvard, subsequently resigned. This has generated more…

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