A year ago a Congressional committee accused Minouche Shafik, the then president of Columbia University, of harbouring antisemitic staff and students on campus. Rather than rejecting this charge and affirming that they were critics of Israel’s systematic human rights violations who displayed no hostility towards Jews, Shafik threw them under the bus. That however did…
14 March 2025 Pressured by a small group of Zionists, Goldsmiths unwisely agreed to launch a formal inquiry into antisemitism on campus nearly two years ago. Suspicious of the motives of the initiators, unhapy with the terms of reference and worried about the outcome, BRICUP and other anti- or non-Zionist civil society groups sought to…
14 March 2025 After lengthy deliberation the University of Minnesota has largely exonerated student protestors earlier charged with a host of offences, as this report from Palestine Legal confirms. Its decision makes a welcome departure from the repressive action of other public and private US universities. Palstine Legal is circulating the following statement from UMN Students…
13 March 2025 The administration of the University of Amsterdam have halted their exchange agreement with the Hebrew University out of concern for reputational damage. It would be gratifying to hear that they are doing this on principled grounds, but even if only for self-interest their decision is good news. UvA: no renewal of exchange…
13 March 2025 Regrettably this report in Haaretz will probably never reach the Western mainstream media. Jewish Columbia Alumni Protest ‘Illegal’ Detention of pro-Palestinian Activist Mahmoud Khalil – U.S. News – Haaretz.com Judy MaltzMar 13, 2025 5:09 pm IST More than 120 Jewish alumni of Columbia have signed a public letter denouncing what they termed the…
13 March 2025 The more than two hundred California Scholars for Academic Freedom have written to Columbia’s president and law school dean urging them to defend Mahmoud Khalil (pictured), the Palestinian student recently arrested and threatened with deportation for exercising his First Amendment rights. As they point out in their letter, reprinted here from Informed…
13 March 2025 As the New York Times reports, Jewish Onliner, a web-based snooping device, reported to the US authorities that Helyeh Doutaghi (pictured), a young scholar at the Yale University School, is a terrorist. Jewish Onliner, it seems, relies upon AI to identify “terrorists”, and in this case it identified a connection between Doutaghi…
11 March 2025 The combination of a fanatically pro-Israel Administration in Washington that weaponises false charges of antisemitism and support for Hamas, an utterly pusillanimous management at Columbia University and a complicit mainstream media that has chosen not to inform the American public of the lawless attack on pro-Palestinian advocates and their Constitutional rights is…
10 March 2025 According to the following report in The Architect’s Newspaper, the directors of the Association of the Collegiate Schools of Architecture which publishes the peer reviewed Journal of Architectural Education commissioned a special issue of the journal on Palestine, issued a call for papers, then, rather than face down outside pressure and risk…
6 March 2025 As this article from Jewish News explains, the Home Office will be closely monitoring an academic event at the LSE to discuss a new book, Understanding Hamas and Why that Matters, and has threatened participants that if they appear to sympathise with the Palestinians who are resisting Israel’s illegal siege of Gaza…