For years, pro-Israel students have claimed they face antisemitism or have been made uncomfortable by critics of Israel or proponents of Palestinian human rights in order to chill this activity at their respective university. Despite their patently opportunistic claims, universities seem unable to reject their claims. This is partly due to the fact that the…
Rebecca Ruth Gould, Distinguished Professor of Poetics and Global Politics at SOAS, reviews Maya Wind’s new book, Towers and Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities undermine Palestinian freedom, in The New Arab. The original version can be found here. Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli universities undermine Palestinian freedom Rebecca Ruth Gould 24 January,…
Conor Gearty KC, a barrister in Matrix Chambers and Professor of Human Rights Law at the LSE, drawing on the work of the late Stan Cohen, an LSE professor of sociology, explains how Israel has used denial in three ways to control the narrative on its assault against Gaza since 7 October 2023: “literal denial…
Home > All News Items and Articles The highly respected journalist Arthur Neslun, in an article for EU Observer, lists seven ways that mainstream media commonly use to distort their reportage on the Israeli assault on Gaza. This excellent summary invites readers to speculate on whether or to what extent their use is deliberate. The…
Home > All News Items and Articles Doctor Fadel Abu Hein, a highly regarded professor of psychology at Gaza’s Al-Aqsa University, was killed yesterday. Dr Abu Hein was an authority on trauma and its impact on mental health especially among children. The original report in Middle East Eye can be found here. War on Gaza:…
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 for the ‘Campus Voices for…
Campus Voices for Palestine will provide a space to discuss threats to campus-based Palestine solidarity. Date and time: Thursday, 25 Jan 2024 18:00 – 20:30 GMT Location: Chemistry Lecture Theatre, UCL, Gordon Street, London, UK (20 Gordon Street London WC1H 0AJ) Mobile eTickets Refund Policy Contact the organiser to request a refund. Eventbrite’s fee is…
Home > All News Items and Articles Hamid Dabashi, the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in the City of New York, has launched a furious attack on Western philosophy in reaction to Jurgen Habermas’ endorsement of the German government’s policy of backing Israel even in the middle of…
At the Open University, the OU for Ceasefire in Gaza Group held its first webinar as follows:The Israel-Palestine issue comes to the Open University: How to facilitate free debate?The talks included a decolonial discourse analysis of the OU’s public statement, which reproduced the dominant US-UK-Israeli narrative.See recording here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiAdIqGWN4c Its second webinar will be held…
Home > All News Items and Articles A motion calling for the endorsement of Standing Together, the latest in a long line of Israeli initiatives intended to divert attention from the murderous oppression and land seizure in Palestine, came before the Leeds University UCU branch last evening. It was soundly rejected. In the decisive vote,…