19 May 2025 Will UK universities respond to Israel’s Gaza Scholasticide? (The link to the Academic Commitment follows) One of the Israel’s targets in Gaza has been its education system, which it has largely destroyed. All of Gaza’s universities have been bombed, and most are now in ruins. Not only the buildings have been targeted:…
25 September 2025 The BRICUP website normally focusses upon academic-related news, but with leaders of Western states queueing up to repeat their ritual pronouncements for a two-state solution, while remaining silent on how they would overcome Israel’s rigid opposition to a Palestinian state or even how they would contribute to a ceasefire in Gaza or…
24 September 2025 Despite the decision of the UK, France, Canada and Australia formally to recognise a Palestinian state, the presence of nearly 800,000 aggressive, fascistic Israeli settlers illegally occupying the West Bank and East Jerusalem as well as parts of Syria and Lebanon makes it difficult to imagine the establishment of a coherent Palestinian…
21 September 2025 M. J. Rosenberg, who once worked for AIPAC but saw the light, maintains a very stimulating substack blog devoted to Israel/Palestine and the American Israel lobby. Here he republishes Haaretz’s report on the growing impact of BDS upon Israel. It understates the significance of BDS, and not least academic boycott, before 7…
21 September 2025 The European Declaration of Conscientious Objection, which corresponds very closely to our Academic Commitment (see About Us, above), is printed below. We urge you to read and sign it. EUROPEAN DECLARATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION No academia as usual during Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide in Palestine Sign the European Declaration here ↓ We, the…
20 September 2025 The surrender by the administrators of the University of California Berkeley (San Francisco) has been highlighted in a post published on this site five days ago. The response by Berkeley faculty published by Mondoweiss is reprinted below. Berkeley faculty and staff members: We condemn the school’s surrender to Trump, and we will…
20 September 2025 The letter by Professor Jonathan Rosenhead, vice-chair of BRICUP, to the Guardian reprinted below speaks volumes about the moral crisis we face today in Britain. As Professor Rosenhead points out, the Palestine civil society call for an academic and cultural boycott of Israel was issued in 2004, 21 years ago, and has…
19 September 2025 The rescue of archaeological artifacts collected from sites in Gaza, as described in this report from AFP, may have a special value when there is nothing left to save after Israel’s systematic destruction of the settlement, for it could be the only proof that it has been inhabited by Palestinians and their…
19 September 2025 Raymond Geuss, emeritus professor of philosophy at Cambridge, draws a stimulating parallel between the leaders of the Roman empire and the current Israeli empire, both of whom have lost themselves in self-justification and greed. Thanks to JVL for drawing the editor’s attention to this article in the New Left Review. Gallia and…
Readers of the articles on this website may enjoy this stimulating essay from The Realist Review which draws a startling parallel between the Greek prime minister Eleftherios Venizelos (pictured) who sought to exploit Turkey’s temporary weakness at the end of the First World War to create a vast Greek empire on its territory and Netanyahu…