BRICUP launch event
7 October 2025 You are cordially invited to attend BRICUP’s launch of its completely revised and expanded booklet, Why Boycott Israeli Universities? and relaunch of the Academic Commitment. Details below.
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The horrific statistics of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza
6 October 2025 The Palestine Chronicle has reprinted the contents of a report by the Gaza Government setting out many of the statistics required to grasp the appalling scale of Israel’s genocide. It should be noted that they were compiled before the latest Israeli assault on Gaza City and environs. Shocking Figures: Two Years of…
The Guardian’s report on the new study of civilian injuries in Gaza
5 October 2025 The Guardian offers a complimentary report on the new study published in the BMJ and introduced by Dr Derek Summerfield in the previous post. Civilian injuries in Gaza similar to those of soldiers in war zones, study finds Wounds such as burns or leg injuries more common in Gaza than among US…
A landmark study of civilian injuries in Gaza
5 October 2025 The full horror of the nearly three-year long Israeli military onslaught on Gaza, which has destroyed over 70 per cent of all medical facilities and some 95 per cent of housing, is set out in a new report on the plight of civilian victims in the BMJ (British Medical Journal. Here is…
Please help BRICUP to help Palestine
Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza has been accompanied by scholasticide – every university in Gaza has been destroyed or rendered unusable. At BRICUP we have intensified our efforts to assist the universities of Gaza and the Occupied West Bank whose very survival is now threatened. Among other things we have resisted Zionist efforts to tamper…
MESA challenges Northwestern University’s attempt to indoctrinate students
5 October 2025 Protesting Northwestern U’s Flawed Compulsory Training on Criticism of Israel as “Antisemitism” 10/04/2025 President Trump’s attempt to intimidate American universities into adopting his perverted values has led to a major controversy at Northwestern University in Evanston Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. The University has made a course on “antisemitism” a pre-requisite for…
“Why Boycott Israeli Universities?” The second, revised edition of the BRICUP booklet is now available to order online
Published in 2025 as Israel attempts to ethnically cleanse the Gaza Strip through a genocidal assault on its 2.3 million Palestinian residents and unleashes extremists from the illegal Jewish settlements to terrorise the Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank in the attempt to seize their land, this Second Edition sets out compelling evidence of the…
Sign the Academic Commitment: Persuade UK universities to condemn Israel’s Gaza scholasticide
19 May 2025 Will UK universities respond to Israel’s Gaza Scholasticide? (The link to the Academic Commitment follows) One of the Israel’s targets in Gaza has been its education system, which it has largely destroyed. All of Gaza’s universities have been bombed, and most are now in ruins. Not only the buildings have been targeted:…
A two-state solution? Here is what Western leaders should be demanding
25 September 2025 The BRICUP website normally focusses upon academic-related news, but with leaders of Western states queueing up to repeat their ritual pronouncements for a two-state solution, while remaining silent on how they would overcome Israel’s rigid opposition to a Palestinian state or even how they would contribute to a ceasefire in Gaza or…
Leila Sansour explains why Israel should also benefit from recognition of Palestine
24 September 2025 Despite the decision of the UK, France, Canada and Australia formally to recognise a Palestinian state, the presence of nearly 800,000 aggressive, fascistic Israeli settlers illegally occupying the West Bank and East Jerusalem as well as parts of Syria and Lebanon makes it difficult to imagine the establishment of a coherent Palestinian…