15 August 2025 Leading mathematicians, with Ahmed Abbes of CNRS (pictured) leading, have returned the medals they earned at the International Mathematical Olympiad in protest at the failure of the Olympiad organisation to suspend Israel for its genocide in Gaza. Thanks to our French colleagues in AURDIP for this report. We return our IMO medals…
15 August 2025 The mainstream media in the West have done their level best to persuade readers and viewers that 7 October 2023 marked the beginning of hostilities between Palestinians and Israelis and that Hamas must therefore be responsible for the breakdown in relations. This article published by the Project on Middle East Political Science…
15 August 2025 The University has undertaken an “academically-led review which explores historic racial and colonial injustices, including enslavement, linked to the University as well as reassessing current policies and procedures.” Here is the link to this remarkable, indeed unique, initiative by a British university: Read the review | Review of Race and History |…
12 August 2025 An association of Scottish Jewish academics has denounced Israel for its genocide in Gaza and called for action to bring it to an end. Here is the report in The National. EXCLUSIVE Jewish staff at Scottish universities call for full Israel divestment By James Walker Political Reporter It comes after the University…
As BRICUP’s sister organisation Artists for Palestine UK reports, the Royal Ballet and Opera, in response to its performers and staff, have decided to cease performing in Israel. Support for the performing arts is often justified on the grounds that they increase our sensitivity to the human condition. It is gratifying to see such powerful…
4 August 2025 This call for action comes from teachers and employees of Birzeit University who have endured the emotional torture of living just a few dozen kilometres from Gaza where Israeli forces are brutally attacking their colleagues, friends and family every single day. Union of Teachers & Employees of Birzeit University Ramallah – Palestine…
4 August 2025 Dean Baker, chief economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, presents a highly plausible explanation of Trump’s objective in attacking Columbia, Harvard and other leading universities in America and why they are unwise to yield to him. Donald Trump’s Harvard Extortion and the Kneel-Liberals Jul 29, 2025 By Dean Baker The…
2 August 2025 The sign-up page is available by clicking on this link. Philosophers for Peace An Open Letter to the Global Intellectual Community Humanity stands at a critical juncture, facing an unprecedented moral and legal rupture that threatens the very foundations of the international order. The ongoing mass killings of thousands of civilians in…
2 August 2025 Professor Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor Emeritus of Modern Middle East Studies at Columbia University, has issued the following open letter to Professor Claire Shipman, the Acting President, reprinted here from the Guardian, explaining why he will not teach his popular course this autumn. I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing…
1 August 2025 Marianne Hirsch is the William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, Professor in the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality, past president of the Modern Language Association and an authority on the holocaust. Her explanation of the dilemma the Columbia University settlement with the Administration…