10 April 2026 In face of resistance from university administrators, Swedish faculty and staff, including PhD students who are normally paid employees of their university, have drafted a petition, known as the Uppsala Declaration, which closely follows the lines of the Academic Commitment initiated by BRICUP some ten years ago and available on this website….
9 April 2026 Defense for Children International – Palestine has produced a documentary film depicting the genocide through the eyes of Palestinian children who have endured it. The film can be downloaded and shown to interested audiences. Documentary: Through a Child’s Eyes Through a Child’s Eyes is a documentary featuring interviews with Palestinian children enduring…
8 April 2026 Hassan Herzallah, a Gaza writer and translator, explains in this article in Waging Nonviolence how university students manage to continue their studies despite the devastation caused by two and a half years of Israeli assault, and why they persist. In Gaza, education is a daily act of quiet resistance For students in…
8 April 2026 As Omar Zahzah of San Francisco State University (pictured) explains in this article for The Palestine Chronicle, the systemic suppression of sympathy for Palestinians in the US is part of a broader campaign to suppress understanding of America’s alignment with Israel on settler colonialism. A Question of Violence: Palestine in American Academia…
8 April 2026 Trump couldn’t have improved on the way two of Britain’s leading peace campaigners, Chris Nineham, head of Stop the War Coalition, and Ben Jamal (pictured), head of Palestine Solidarity Campaign, who have been organising the monthly marches for Palestine in London, were fitted up by the police, then convicted in court last…
1 April 2026 BRICUP’s friends in Scotland deserve congratulations for securing the adoption of an important motion at the AGM of the Scottish UCU Congress last Friday. It’s set out below. A similar motion is going to the UK-wide UCU Congress in May. BRICUP played a central role in organising the three previous Campus Voices…
1 April 2026 As this report from the Palestine News Network explains, a senior court in Belgium has ruled that the Belgian government has failed to honour its obligations to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) by failing to act in light of the probable genocide in Gaza. The UK government has equal obligations to…
30 March 2026 Here’s the report by activists at the OU on their successful pushback against the UKLFI’s use of lawfare to erase Palestine from maps and academic discourse. Background: OU capitulation to pro-Israel lobby In November 2025, UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) sent the Open University (OU) a threat of legal action against the…
30 March 2026 A group of international academics have launched an archive commemorating Palestinian scholars killed during the ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza since 2023. The initiative documents the lives, work and contributions of university professors, researcher and educators, and is part of a broader effort to document what scholars and human rights advocates describe…
25 March 2026 Emad Abdel-Latif, Professor of Rhetoric and Discourse Analysis at Qatar University, discusses the possible explanations for Jurgen Habermas’s failure to apply consistently his adherence to democratic and humanist principles when it came to the genocide in Gaza. His explanation, which closely resembles Edward Said argument in his famous book The Question of…