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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.

13 February 2026 Even after more than two years of Israel’s genocidal aggression in Gaza it seems that managers at some British universities are still only half aware that Israel’s supporters are doing everything they can to suppress the truth about the land theft, ethnic cleansing, mass hostage taking and genocide taking place in Gaza…

4 December 2025 Five years ago, Professor Arif Ahmed of Cambridge University understood that the IHRA definition of antisemitism was a tool for suppressing free speech on Israel. He warned the then Minister for Higher Education Gavin Williamson, “I am strongly against [the] requirement that universities adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism. This ‘definition’ is…

17 November 2025 Earlier this month BRICUP held a conference in London to launch the new edition of its booklet, “Why boycott Israeli universities”, which included powerful speeches by Professor David Johnson of the Open University who co-wrote the new edition, the Palestinian author and academic Dr Ghada Karmi, Neve Gordon, formerly of Ben Gurion…

17 November 2025 Earlier this month BRICUP held a conference in London to launch the new edition of its booklet, “Why boycott Israeli universities”, which included powerful speeches by Professor David Johnson of the Open University who co-wrote the new edition, the Palestinian author and academic Dr Ghada Karmi, Neve Gordon, formerly of Ben Gurion…

17 November 2025 Earlier this month BRICUP held a conference in London to launch the new edition of its booklet, “Why boycott Israeli universities”, which included powerful speeches by Professor David Johnson of the Open University who co-wrote the new edition, the Palestinian author and academic Dr Ghada Karmi, Neve Gordon, formerly of Ben Gurion…

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.

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…

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…