activities
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.
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…
Have you signed the European Declaration of Conscientious Objection?
21 September 2025 The European Declaration of Conscientious Objection, which corresponds very closely to our Academic Commitment (see About Us, above), is printed below. We urge you to read and sign it. EUROPEAN DECLARATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION No academia as usual during Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide in Palestine Sign the European Declaration here ↓ We, the…
“Why Boycott Israeli Universities?” The second, revised edition of the BRICUP booklet is available to read or download here
This is the revised and expanded Second Edition of the BRICUP case for boycotting Israeli academic institutions. 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…
Sign this letter to stop Israeli participant from contaminating the GSMERH’s second world congress
9 September 2025 A prominent Israeli doctor who regularly serves in the IDF has been successfully removed from the World Congress of the Global Society on Migration, Ethnicity, Race and Health, but he remains a vice-president of the Society and has received an invitation to speak at the Congress. Please consider signing the letter below…
Another petition that deserves your support
2 August 2025 The sign-up page is available by clicking on this link. Philosophers for Peace An Open Letter to the Global Intellectual Community Humanity stands at a critical juncture, facing an unprecedented moral and legal rupture that threatens the very foundations of the international order. The ongoing mass killings of thousands of civilians in…
Sign the petition against extending terrorism law to Palestine Action
1 July 2025 BRICUP invites you to sign the attached petition, initiated by the University and College Workers for Palestine, to oppose the Government’s intended designation of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. Palestine Action’s most controversial initiative to date has been to daub paint on a few (leased) RAF planes in protest against its…
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:…
Sign the Academic Commitment: Support the academic boycott of Israeli institutions
19 May 2025 Here is Haaretz’s startling report on the growing impact of the academic boycott on Israel’s universities. Sign the Academic Commitment here, to strengthen the boycott. Israeli Academia Faces Hundreds of ’Explicit’ Boycotts by Foreign Universities, Report Says Israel News- Haaretz.com Feb 25, 2025 12:09 pm IST Israeli researchers have reported hundreds of…
Have you signed the Academic Commitment yet?
BRICUP urges all academics to support the Academic Commitment in response to the call by Palestinian civil society organisations to refrain from any involvement with Israeli academic institutions, all of which are complicit in Israel’s occupation, colonisation and system of apartheid. Two common misconceptions need to be exposed. Firstly, the boycott is of institutions not…