18 February 2026 The Cambridge Union is holding an important debate on introducing Palestine Studies to the University curriculum. It is scheduled for 24 February at 6:30 p.m. A limited number of places are available to non-members of the University. Here is the poster.
17 February 2026 The following is a brief history of academic boycott from the French vantagepoint by a vice-president of AURDIP, the Association des Universitaires pour le Respect du Droit International en Palestine, BRICUP’s sister organisation in France. As Professor Ekeland describes, the French government has been as dogged in its opposition to academic boycott…
17 February 2026 For some time the Greek Archaeology Association has taken a strong position against Israel’s deliberate destruction of archaeological sites in Gaza and has sought to persuade the European Association of Archaeologists to suspend the membership of the Israeli Association, just as it suspended the Russians and Belarussians after Russia invaded Ukraine and…
17 February 2026 UN Watch, an innocent sounding organisation devoted to deflecting international criticism from Israel, edited a video’d statement by Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Occupied since 1967, to make it seem that she declared: “Israel is an enemy of humanity”. She didn’t…
16 February 2026 Dr Marchella Ward of the Open University explains in this article in the Middle East Monitor the UKLFI’s unprincipled attempt to rewrite the history of the Middle East in order to establish modern day Israel’s claim to Palestinian land. Israel is trying to rewrite history – and British institutions risk helping them…
16 February 2026 It is nearly fifty years since Edward Said denounced modern Zionists for their persistent efforts to silence and make invisible the Palestinians whose land they had largely appropriated. They clearly have not ceased in their efforts, for in recent months UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) has pressured the Open University, the British…
13 February 2026 In this article for The Baffler, Mary Turfah, author and physician (photo), describes the horrific exploitation of Palestinian bodies by Israeli authorities who deliberately desecrate them or withhold them for months and years as a means of asserting their superiority over Palestinians and humiliating and controlling the survivors. Her account brings to…
13 February 2026 Even after more than two years of Israel’s genocidal aggression in Gaza it seems that managers at some British universities are still only half aware that Israel’s supporters are doing everything they can to suppress the truth about the land theft, ethnic cleansing, mass hostage taking and genocide taking place in Gaza…
13 February 2026 The Palestine Mental Health Networks explains why resignation is the appropriate response. Psychoanalysis of ConscienceA Call to Resign from the IPAThe Palestine Mental Health Networks, representing mental health professionals from 23 nations, are calling on psychoanalysts to resign from the International Psychoanalytic Association.The IPA has refused to name the genocide in Gaza,…
11 February 2026 BRISMES, the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, has written the letter below to Sir Mark Rowley, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, and Stephen Watson, Chief Constable of the Greater Manchester Police, explaining the phrases “Globalise the Intifada” and “From the River to the Sea”. For two years and four months Israel…