Home > All News Items and Articles The First Amendment of the US Constitution is designed to guarantee free speech and, among other things, academic freedom. It states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or…

Judith Butler discusses the legitimacy of support for Palestine including the resort to force in its emancipatory struggle, and the decision of American university administrators to censor this support. As she argues, this is a necessary debate, and its suppression, including at Harvard under President Claudine Gay, contributes to the mass killing in Gaza and…

Home > All News Items and Articles For four years the Guardian never missed an opportunity to tar Jeremy Corbyn with the brush of antisemitism until a confused and suspicious public turned against him at the polls, thus opening the way for the zealously pro-Israel Sir Keir Starmer to replace him as leader of the…

Home > All News Items and Articles Israeli doctors have form when it comes to the inhuman treatment of Palestinians. For years, Physicians for Human Rights Israel have sought to draw the attention of the World Medical Association to evidence that the Israel Medical Association is complicit in the torture of Palestinians held prisoner in…

Home > All News Items and Articles The eminent abstract artist Samia Halaby was recently told that a long-planned retrospective of her work at Indiana University in February has been cancelled. Halaby, who studied at Indiana and Michigan State Universities and became the first woman professor at the Yale School of Art, has Jordanian and…

Home > All News Items and Articles The prominent role of wealthy Jewish donors – including in particular the billionaire financier Bill Ackman (illustrated) – in the controversy that led to the resignation of Claudine Gay, a Black woman, as President of Harvard University has increased tensions between Blacks and Jews. Some of the same…

Home > All News Items and Articles Maya Wind was born and grew up in Jerusalem but did not meet a Palestinian until she was fifteen years old. Like all her schoolmates, she believed the IDF was merely defending Israel against the hostile antisemitic Arabs inside and outside the country. Not until a chance meeting…

Home > All News Items and Articles Three of the six-person Students’ Union were suspended last month for refusing to take down an unauthorised statement calling for an immediate ceasefire to end the mass slaughter of Gazans. No doubt, posting the statement infringed the SU’s rules. But, one wonders, why did the SU refuse to…

British police and border guards at ports and airports are employing the Prevent programme, introduced in 2011 to identify would-be terrorists, to harass hundreds of English schoolchildren who display badges or wear Keffiyeh indicating solidarity with Palestine. Practically all of them are children of Muslim families. Police spokesmen insist that merely displaying Palestinian colours or…

Home > All News Items and Articles For years Germany has sought to remove the stain left by the Holocaust by suppressing all criticism of Israel. This has led to the suppression of free speech and academic freedom in Germany and given a free pass for Israel to continue its oppression of Palestine. Now, finally,…