26 February 2026 At a well-attended gathering in a Parliamentary room on Tuesday, the British-Palestine Committee hosted experts from Forensic Architecture and Earshot who presented their report on the ugly massacre of 15 Palestinian aid workers in Gaza last year. As with the murder of Hind Rajab and many other outrages over the past two…
University and College Workers for Palestine & the Seminar in Contemporary Marxist Theory warmly invite you to a seminar with Dr Abdaljawad Omar (Birzeit University) Palestine is More Than Itself – on the universal meaning of Gaza Thursday 5 March, 7pm (UK time), 9pm (Palestine)Zoom | register here Dr Abdaljawad Omar is a Palestinian scholar and…
24 February 2026 Larry Haiven, a Canadian antizionist academic, describes his own discovery of deep-seated settler-colonial prejudice in this article in Canadian Dimension. Settler colonial solidarity and me A personal reckoning with how childhood lessons in empire and whiteness help explain Western loyalty to Israel Larry Haiven / September 11, 2025 Many of us wonder why…
18 February 2026 Two years and four months after the Israeli genocide began, university administrators in the US are still yielding to Zionist pressure to remove or suppress any mention of it. Here is a letter of protest issued jointly by AAUP (the American Association of University Professors) and MESA (the Middle East Studies Association…
18 February 2026 Israel has denied access to Gaza for years, but until recently it was possible to visit the Occupied West Bank and, for those prepared to do so, accompany Palestinian school children and farmers being harassed by Jewish settler terrorists.Those days have passed, it seems. The Israeli immigration authorities are increasingly denying visas…
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…