19 September 2024 The provost of Concordia University in Montreal has just circulated a “guidance” to departments and other sections of the University banning them from expressing their collective support for Palestine without quite ever mentioning Palestine or the pro-Israel members of the University community who might feel “uncomfortable” with such expressions of support. This,…
Home > All News Items and Articles 19 September 2024 UN members overwhelmingly supported Palestinian demands: 124 to 14, and if we subtract the votes of the tiny Pacific islands whose votes appear to be regularly purchased, the outcome was 124 to 7 with the 7 including Israel (and of course the US.) Within Europe a number…
Home > All News Items and Articles 18 September 2024 The national colonial-settler myth of Israel, like settler-colonial myths everywhere, has inflicted psychological trauma on the colonised people and must be challenged, as this article by Sarah Stunden explains. The term PTSD fails to capture the Palestinian experience We need to understand trauma as not simply a side effect…
Home > All News Items and Articles 18 September 2024 The petition from MESA and its Committee on Academic Freedom to the US Administration is reproduced below. MESA Board Joint Letter With CAF condemning the decimation of the education sector in Gaza September 12, 2024 President Joseph R. BidenThe White HouseOffice of the President1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NWWashington, DC 20500…
Home > All News Items and Articles 18 September 2024 Masha Gessen (pictured) recounts in this New York Times article the many times when CUNY or its constituents such as most recently Brooklyn College or Hunter College have caved in to pressure from pro-Israel forces by shutting down discussion of Palestinian human and political rights. One can only wonder…
Home > All News Items and Articles 17 September 2024 Yves Engler (pictured), the independent Canadian journalist,and blogger, describes here the extensive influence race supremacists have acquired at McGill University in Montreal. McGill president smears students while ignoring genocide Wealthy donors, a well-organized outside lobby and an empowered victimhood narrative ensures McGill’s president promotes genocide. With students expressing their…
17 September 2024 Al Jazeera has just published these startling statistics of Palestinian students killed, injured and arrested. Education Ministry says 11,000 students killed in Gaza and West Bank The Palestinian Education Ministry has said 11,001 students were killed and 17,772 injured in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank since the start of…
Home > All News Items and Articles 12 September 2024 Amira Abdelhamid, a lecturer in international relations at the University of Portsmouth, was suspended from teaching by her University and arrested by counter-terrorism policy merely on account of tweets critical of Israel after 7 October 2023, has learned that the DPP does intend to pursue charges against…
Home > All News Items and Articles 12 September 2024 The Committee for Academic Freedom welcomes the decision of Leeds University to retreat from its threat to remove James Dickins emeritus status but accuses the University of hypocrisy and illegality in threatening to remove all the rights and benefits entailed in his emeritus status. As the Committee suggests, the…
Home > All News Items and Articles 12 September 2024 Students, faculty and others will find the Institute’s Toolkit very useful in their efforts to halt the adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism which in its improperly modified form serves as a weapon to suppress criticism of Israel and support for Palestine. Toolkit: Demand “NO IHRA” This toolkit…