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3 June 2026 BRICUP is extremely pleased to post below the motions on Palestine adopted by overwhelming majorities at the UCU Congress last week and earlier at the UCU Scotland Congress. Note that UCU will fund another Campus Voices for Palestine tour this winter. UCU branches prepared to host a visit should get in touch…

2 June 2026 The following is a message from Jonathan Coulter, secretary of www.campain.org, directed at all those who seek justice for the Palestinian people in face of Israel’s apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocidal policies and efforts by Israel’s friends in the West who seek to silence them. Dear  Friend Invaluable resources for the mediapush-back  CAMPAIN…

8 May 2026 The London-based Friends of Palestinian Universities (FPU) and UCU are jointly sponsoring an important and timely webinar on education in the West Bank and Gaza on Thursday 19 May. Here is their notice. Friends of Palestinian Universities and UCU presents EDUCATION, OCCUPATION & LIBERATION Wellbeing, Survival, and Resistance under Scholasticide You are invited…

30 April 2026 The European Legal Support Center (ELSC) has posted on the Oxford Union, the university’s debating club, which has treated the Palestinian-American author Susan Abulhawa outrageously. Abulhawa, speaking at the Union nearly two years ago, invited the audience to consider if the description of genocide would even be questioned if it was Jewish…

9 April 2026 Defense for Children International – Palestine has produced a documentary film depicting the genocide through the eyes of Palestinian children who have endured it. The film can be downloaded and shown to interested audiences. Documentary: Through a Child’s Eyes Through a Child’s Eyes is a documentary featuring interviews with Palestinian children enduring…

1 April 2026 BRICUP’s friends in Scotland deserve congratulations for securing the adoption of an important motion at the AGM of the Scottish UCU Congress last Friday. It’s set out below. A similar motion is going to the UK-wide UCU Congress in May. BRICUP played a central role in organising the three previous Campus Voices…

30 March 2026 Here’s the report by activists at the OU on their successful pushback against the UKLFI’s use of lawfare to erase Palestine from maps and academic discourse.  Background: OU capitulation to pro-Israel lobby In November 2025, UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) sent the Open University (OU) a threat of legal action against the…

30 March 2026 A group of international academics have launched an archive commemorating Palestinian scholars killed during the ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza since 2023. The initiative documents the lives, work and contributions of university professors, researcher and educators, and is part of a broader effort to document what scholars and human rights advocates describe…

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…