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Sign the petition! British academic is facing a criminal charge in Berlin for expressing solidarity with Palestinians
27 January 2025 Dror Dayan, an Israeli-born academic with German citizenship who teaches at John Moores University in Liverpool, is facing a criminal charge in Berlin for allegedly expressing support for terrorism, based on a two-year old social media message. This is a frankly outrageous misuse of the courts and denial of his freedom of…


Success at the University of Sussex: Academic Boycott in Action
18 December 2024 The decision of the University of Sussex to host a joint conference with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on its campus was an act of breathtaking insensitivity. The conference, on “Displacement, Forced Migration and Reparation: Comparisons and Controversies”, co-organized by the Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex and the…

500+ international academics petition St Andrews University to reverse decision to silence Rector over criticism of Israel’s Gaza assault
15 December 2024 In November 2023 Stella Maris took office as the Rector of the University of St Andrews, elected by its students. Maris emailed students about the events following from 7 October including Hamas’ terrorist actions and Israel’s genocidal response, and called for a ceasefire. As invariably happens in these situations, one or more…

BBC confirms bias against Palestinians by cancelling Professor Ilan Pappe’s role in podcast
13 December 2024 Ilan Pappe is an Israeli-born historian, the director of Exeter University’s European Centre for Palestine Studies and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies. He is the author of more than a dozen books and an internationally recognised authority on Israeli history and the Israel/Palestine conflict. The BBC invited him to…

Medical campaign
Dear World Medical Association Council Chair, Dr Edward Hill and the Council We the undersigned 725 physicians represent both academic medicine (114 professors) andclinical practice in 43 countries. A matter of grave concern to us, and a threat to the publicreputation of the World Medical Association, has brought us together in this perhapsunprecedented medical initiative….

Speaking tour: Campus Voices for Palestine – Solidarity against Scholasticide
“We built these universities from tents. And from tents, with the support of our friends, we will rebuild them once again.”Unified Call from Palestinian academics and administrators of Gaza Universities, 29 April 2024 Join us to hear first-hand from Palestinian academics and campaigners about how Palestinian Higher Education institutions are resisting erasure through the collective work…

Are you a mathematician? Have you signed the petition against genocide in Gaza?
19 November 2024 More than 500 mathematicians, primarily from France but increasingly from around the world, have signed a statement condemning the ongoing genocide in Gaza. They are calling on the scientific community to suspend all collaborations with Israeli institutions that do not explicitly denounce the genocide in Gaza and the illegal colonization of Palestine. The signatories…

BRICUP calls on UCU branches to adopt this model motion on Academic BDS
4 November 2024 Model Motion on Academic BDS This branch notes: · the ongoing carnage in the Gaza Strip, the extension of the conflict to indiscriminate bombing and assassinations in Lebanon, and the threat of a regional war in the Middle East; · the systematic destruction of all of Gaza’s universities, and the targeted killing…

Supporting Stella Maris, student rector of St Andrews University
Home > All News Items and Articles 1 August 2024 Ignoring legal advice, St. Andrews management evidently yielded to Zionist pressure and excluded Stella Maris, elected rector by the students, from the University’s governing body and her position as a trustee, according to the Guardian report below. As so often in situations like this, the management justified their…