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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:…
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…
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: 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…
Join the call for Omar Barghouti’s freedom
16 May 2025 Once again, Israel is denying Omar Barghouti’s right to travel abroad. Support this call from Irish Labour for his freedom to travel. Israel must lift travel ban on Palestinian human rights defender Omar Barghouti to attend Robert Tressell Festival in Dublin Duncan Smith 29 April 2025 Israel must lift travel ban on…
“Why Boycott Israeli Universities?” The second, revised edition of the BRICUP booklet is available to read online 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 in the illegal Jewish settlements to terrorise the Palestinians living in the Occupied…
FOBZU’s Partnerships with Palestine Guide
17 March 2025 Friends of Birzeit University (FOBZU) has published a highly useful guide to promoting support for Palestinian universities through partnerships, scholarships, research collaboration, etc. Details are contained in the Guide below. Partnerships with Palestine Guide CLICK HERE TO ACCESS GUIDE This guide equips UK academics and administrators with practical ways to support Gaza’s…