16 June 2026 Arwa Hanin Elrayess, daughter of an Algerian mother and Palestinian father, who was born in London but lived in Gaza from the age of five, is in her final year of PPE (Politics, Philosophy and Economics) at St. Edmund Hall and the current president of the Oxford Union. As could have been…
10 June 2026 Even as official repression of pro-Palestine, anti-genocide action ramps up, university students and staff in Germany, as across Europe, are expressing their support for Palestinian human rights. ‘Historic’ wave of Palestinian solidarity grows at universities in Germany Calls for universities to cut ties with Israeli institutions are rising in the country that…
10 June 2026 Across Europe, as in America and Britain, universities are attempting to redefine free speech against genocide and in support of Palestinian rights as ‘antisemitism’. Copenhagen University is the latest example. The University of Copenhagen is complicit in Israel’s genocide in Gaza and is now trying to criminalize those who protest it I…
8 June 2026 Most reports of the crisis in the Middle East leave the impression that it is a male affair while the Palestinian women remain essentially passive. The publication of “Everything We Thought Was Beautiful: Interviews with Radical Palestinian Women” late last year by PM Press offers a useful correction. Here is a review…
8 June 2026 Israel has deliberately destroyed Gaza’s libraries, universities and hospitals, killed in the hundreds its academics and medical specialists and practitioners, and cut its energy supplies making practically impossible programmes of remote learning. Yet through sheer determination, Gaza has trained a new cohort of medical doctors, and no doubt to the same high…
6 June 2026 As this Guardian article reports, a University of Chicago professor has been suspended merely for mentioning the word ‘Palestine’ in an assignment. A University of Chicago professor has been suspended merely for mentioning the word ‘Palestine’ in an assignment. ‘We call it the P-word’: Chicago professor suspended after assignment mentions Palestinians School…
3 June 2026 Aneeza Pervez of Clare Hall, Cambridge, has written an important article on the present crisis, implicating UK universities in the continuing genocide in Gaza. Below is a link to Pervez’s recent lecture, followed by her article. The original article can be found on Taylor and Francis online. Witnessing silence: the Palestinian genocide,…
3 June 2026 BRICUP is extremely pleased to post below the motions on Palestine adopted by overwhelming majorities at the UCU Congress last week and earlier at the UCU Scotland Congress. Note that UCU will fund another Campus Voices for Palestine tour this winter. UCU branches prepared to host a visit should get in touch…
2 June 2026 Book now to watch the lecture or go online to the British International Studies Association to watch it later. Public lecture: Gaza as an epicentre – the breakdown of the international order This event will be in Brighton, UK 2 June 2026 Opening the #BISA2026 conference, this lecture will attempt to provide…
2 June 2026 The following is a message from Jonathan Coulter, secretary of www.campain.org, directed at all those who seek justice for the Palestinian people in face of Israel’s apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocidal policies and efforts by Israel’s friends in the West who seek to silence them. Dear Friend Invaluable resources for the mediapush-back CAMPAIN…
