29 November 2024 After MIT, Cornell University is one of the first major US universities to become enmeshed in dispute over freedom to teach the Palestine experience in a formal course but it certainly won’t be the last, especially as the incoming US President has declared his intention to do everything he can to close…
22 November 2024 As two historians recently pointed out, the New England Journal of Medicine, one of the oldest and most prestigious medical journals in America, has form when it comes to holocausts. It remained silent throughout the 1930s and ’40s amidst mounting evidence of Nazi Germany’s abuse of medicine and mass murder, and, as…
22 November 2024 It has taken a very long time for the ICC to follow up the prosecutor’s advice and issue warrants for the arrest of the Israeli prime minister and his recent minister of defence, so long in fact that many suspected political interference had blocked their progress. But at last the Court has…
16 November 2024 As this report in the Mail Online explains, the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, a fabulously wealthy institution, set up a fund to help Ukrainian students almost immediately after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but regrets it now that students are demanding that a similar fund should be set up to help…
11 November 2024 The US Modern Language Association, the largest academic association in the world, would have voted on BDS at its AGM early next year and all the signs are it would have approved it. But as this report in The Chronicle of Higher Education explains, a vote now seems unlikely because the executive…
11 November 2024 Armistice Day is an appropriate time to remember the strong links between universities and the military. Admittedly, the US is a more thorough-going warfare state than the UK or its Continental neighbours, as this excellent article by William Hartung (pictured) in Tom Dispatch describes. The links here are nonetheless strong. The Pentagon…
“We built these universities from tents. And from tents, with the support of our friends, we will rebuild them once again.”Unified Call from Palestinian academics and administrators of Gaza Universities, 29 April 2024 Join us to hear first-hand from Palestinian academics and campaigners about how Palestinian Higher Education institutions are resisting erasure through the collective work…
19 November 2024 More than 500 mathematicians, primarily from France but increasingly from around the world, have signed a statement condemning the ongoing genocide in Gaza. They are calling on the scientific community to suspend all collaborations with Israeli institutions that do not explicitly denounce the genocide in Gaza and the illegal colonization of Palestine. The signatories…
4 November 2024 Model Motion on Academic BDS This branch notes: · the ongoing carnage in the Gaza Strip, the extension of the conflict to indiscriminate bombing and assassinations in Lebanon, and the threat of a regional war in the Middle East; · the systematic destruction of all of Gaza’s universities, and the targeted killing…
16 July 2024 The intolerable rabbi at Leeds University: a chronology of outrage and extremism Zecharia Deutsch was Jewish chaplain at Leeds University (also at Leeds Beckett University, and the Universities of York, Hull, Huddersfield, Bradford and Sheffield) from 2021 to2024. In November 2023, Deutsch was called up, or perhaps volunteered, to fight in Israel’s…