2 June 2026 The Balfour Declaration, issued by the British government in 1917, promised Jews a “homeland” in Palestine. For such an illegitimate and unprincipled promise, which involved handing over the Palestinians’ land to Jewish colonisers from Europe, Britain continues to pay a high price. As the following article from the Morning Star describes, Britain’s…
2 June 2026 Do academic Zionist zealots know what they are doing? As this article from the Forward explains, Zionist members of the UCLA faculty are corroborating claims that students who set up a pro-Palestine encampment on campus in 2024 were engaging in antisemitic violence, which the University administration was slow to suppress. And they…
1 June 2026 Hassan Abo Qamar, the author of the article from Palestine Deep Dive below, hoped to study in Europe and earned the grades that would normally have enabled him to do so. But, as he explains, Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza made this practically impossible. Along with the destruction of Gaza’s health system,…
22 May 2026 The European Legal Support Centre (ELSC) and the Public Interest Law Centre (PILC) have jointly submitted a complaint to the Bar Standards Board (BSB) concerning the UKLFI’s regular reference to leading barristers (KCs) in their attempts to intimidate individuals and groups when they criticise Israel for its appalling mistreatment of Palestinians. Here…
22 May 2026 Tech for Palestine, which will be holding its first conference in Brussels next month, welcomes support from tech specialists, investors and others. Here is a powerful explanatory message from Paul Biggar, founder of Tech for Palestine, and below that is a description of what Biggar created Tech for Palestine to do. I…
22 May 2026 UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) wrote to Jo Grady, secretary general of UCU, to protest about a London region motion on academic freedom and freedom of speech (SFC27, which is now Motion 52) submitted for debate at the UCU Conference. This is more than ironic because the UKLFI are complaining about a…
21 May 2026 The University of Ghent is pulling out of five research projects which include Israeli partners, as reported in the Middle East Monitor. The Rector has expressed her support for a complete boycott of Israel, but students are demanding she acts immediately and have occupied her office in protest. Belgian university to withdraw…
21 May 2026 As the report below from the Middle East Monitor, now over six months old, confirms, Israeli universities were aware that the European academic boycott of Israel was already a major problem by 2025 and continued to grow despite the so-called ceasefire that autumn. Recent developments indicate that the boycott has been accelerating,…
20 May 2026 In order to establish the Jewish claim to Palestinian land, Israelis have not only undertaken their own archaeological research. They have also halted work by Palestinian archaeologists and appropriated their sites. The American Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) has strongly protested this grotesque abuse of science. Protesting Israeli Control…
19 May 2026 This thoughtful essay by Frederic Schneider, published in Mondoweiss, explains the dangerous consequences of Germany’s decades-long attempt to prove it is no longer antisemitic. How Gaza is exposing Germany’s ‘never again’ myth Germany’s unconditional support for Israel has been an easy way to avoid examining our brutal past. The colossal weight of…
