28 January 2026 The website Visualising Palestine partnered with Taawon’s ISNAD program to document scholasticide and the determination of Palestinian scholars and students to resume teaching, researching, and learning. Their devastating yet determinedly hopeful visual account is reproduced below. You can find more visuals on scholasticide by going to “More Than Buildings”: Scholasticide in Gaza – Visualizing…
The Britain Palestine Project’s Annual Conference 2026 invites you to save the date. Recognition Is the beginning will bring together leading historians, analysts, and legal experts to examine what recognition of Palestine must mean in practice – and what responsibilities the UK bears in shaping what comes next. Across a full day of focused discussion, the conference…
26 January 2026 As if enduring two years of Israel’s genocidal military assault was not punishment enough, Gaza students who persisted in their studies despite near-impossible conditions and won scholarships to British universities are unable to take them up because of obstacles the UK government seems unwilling to remove. A spokesperson for the government claims…
25 January 2026 Craig Mokhiber, the international human rights lawyer and former senior United Nations Official, left the UN in October of 2023, penning a widely read letter that warned of genocide in Gaza, criticized the international response and called for a new approach to Palestine and Israel based on equality, human rights and international…
A new bill in Israel, “which seeks to destroy academia, is another link in the Netanyahu government’s chain of destruction, aimed at strangling Israeli democracy” and turning “Israel into a dictatorship”. 16 Jan. 2026 Netanyahu’s Destructive Coalition Turns Its Attention to Crushing Academia Jan 16, 2026 12:17 The bill to “strengthen transparency and public oversight…
15 January 2026 Activists will be interested in the work of the Palestine Institute of Public Diplomacy whose website is here. Who We Are The Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy The Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy (PIPD) is a non-governmental independent organization advocating for the liberation of Palestine from all forms of settler colonialism. Our team is…
15 January 2026 Jonathan Cook, one of the most acute observers of Israel’s unceasing assault on Palestinians and its supporters overseas, has just published an article on UK Lawyers for Israel which deserves close attention by everyone interested in justice for Palestine. Every time, the media sides with the discredited apologists for genocide Stop making…
12 January 2026 BRICUP has joined PSC, Greenpeace, the TUC, Liberty and some 40 other civil society groups to oppose the government’s latest proposal to expand police powers over public demonstrations. As before, the powers are extremely ill-defined and therefore certain to be used arbitrarily. One other thing is absolutely certain: they are mainly intended…
11 January 2026 Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a British-Palestinian plastic surgeon, has devoted his life to saving the lives of other Palestinians, many now facing genocide. And naturally he has from time to time voiced his support for other Palestinians who like him struggle for justice and freedom. Students at Glasgow University, recognising his heroic activity,…
11 January 2026 Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, a prominent Palestinian paediatrician, neonatologist and Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, the only hospital still functioning in 2024, was kidnapped by the Israelis and is still imprisoned by them where, other Palestinians report, he has been repeatedly abused or tortured. Here is a letter to…