31 July 2026 The British establishment has closed ranks to defend Israel from the criticisms its war crimes and ‘plausible’ genocide deserve and require. All its functionaries, from police chiefs through bank officials and Vice-Chancellors to the General Medical Council, toe the Government’s line. As often as not the infamous IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism…
27 July 2026 Please consider signing this petition in support of medievalist, Julien Théry, who has been sacked by University Lumière Lyon 2 for supporting Palestine: https://framaforms.org/julien-thery-must-be-allowed-to-work-and-teach-again-revoke-his-punishment-supporting-palestine-is. For more details, see below. Julien Théry must be allowed to work and teach again! Revoke his punishment: supporting Palestine is not a crime! Julien Théry must be…
27 July 2026 Across mainland Europe, as in Britain and America, Palestine solidarity in universities is under assault. But Palestine rights supporters are fighting back – with increasing success, as this story from France shows. France court overturns decision to ban academic conference on Palestine The decision to cancel the Palestine conference sparked debate over…
This investigation by Aaron Walawalkar for Al-Jazeera and Liberty Investigates exposes the heavy-handed, unprincipled methods employed by KCL (and possibly other universities including Oxford, UCL and Cardiff) to intimidate and suppress pro-Palestine student activism. Sadly, it’s not surprising that the university administrators have chosen to ignore their implication in the genocide taking place in Palestine…
6 July 2026 Sitting Tawjihi, Palestine’s equivalent of A-levels in England or Scottish Highers, has always been a challenge, but since they went online after 7 October 2023 they have become a nightmare for students in Gaza, as this article by Ruweida Amer in +972 explains. High school final exam season is stressful. In Gaza,…
3 July 2026 In action all too typical of Israeli forces, IDF soldiers brutally forced their way onto the Birzeit University campus in order to destroy murals depicting Palestinian heroes. Here is The Palestine Chronicle report. Israeli Forces Raid Birzeit University, Destroy Palestinian Murals in West Bank June 29, 2026 News By Palestine Chronicle Staff Israeli forces…
3 July 2026 In 2023 Melat Kiros, an Ethiopian immigrant, was fired from her job with a New York City law firm for her pro-Palestine activism, but she held firmly to her principles and has just won a remarkable victory over an AIPAC-funded incumbent, practically ensuring her place in Congress in November. Here is a…
3 July 2026 As Al Jazeera reports, the campus protests may have been brutally suppressed and student activists punished for their activism, but the striking victories of activists in recent political contests strongly suggest that the protests had their desired effect in publicising the genocide in Gaza and wrongheadedness of US policy towards Israel and…
3 July 2026 This Report, published by Friends of Palestinian Universities (formerly Friends of Birzeit University), provides a remarkably detailed account of the scholasticide, its importance for Palestinian society, its legal significance, the (as yet feeble) reactions of foreign states and universities, and what the latter should do to assist the reconstruction of Gaza’s higher…
1 July 2026 What sort of country would deliberately destroy every hospital and health centre and kill or incarcerate every hospital director of a captive people? The following article by Alaa Demeida and reprinted from Palestine Deep Dive on the fate of Dr Marwan Al-Sultan, director of the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza, illustrates just how…
