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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…

Sixteen months of bombings and attacks have decimated Gaza’s health system and workforce. Palestinian doctors tell Elisabeth Mahase of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) about the effects on mental health, what needs to happen next, and how UK doctors can help. 6 March, 2025 Gaza’s health system is “completely eviscerated”—what happens now? BMJ 2025; 388 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r361 (Published 25 February 2025) Cite…

6 April 2025 Dr Swee Ang, FRCS, was born in Penang, Malaysia. She grew up and studied in Singapore. In 1973 she obtained her medical degree and in 1976 her master’s in occupational medicine at the University of Singapore. She was silver medallist for her undergrad, and gold medallist for her master’s.  She joined her husband…

The IHRA ‘definition’ of anti-Semitism protects Israel not Jews Sponsors JNP, Scottish PSC, Jewish Voice for Labour and British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP) Chair Kristina Hultgren, Professor of Sociolinguistics and UK Research & Innovation Future Leaders Fellow Speakers Registration

To sign, click here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/urgent-stop-the-growing-crackdown-on-students-protesting-genocide/ The Donald Trump government is not only backing Netanyahu’s plan for the total ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip, but also attempting to muzzle and criminalise anyone who opposes this criminal act. Help oppose Trump’s criminal behaviour by signing this petition – almost half a million people have already signed….

As Israel, backed openly by the Donald Trump’s government in Washington, moves to try and ethnically cleanse Gaza, the Guardian reports on Israel’s targeting of Gaza’s health workers. 6 March 2025 The doctors detained in Gaza: ‘He was dragged from the operating theatre’ – podcast https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2025/mar/03/the-doctors-detained-in-gaza-he-was-dragged-from-the-operating-theatre-podcast Doctors in Gaza say they have been targeted for…

5 March 2025 As this report from The Guardian describes, Israel has detained, tortured and allowed to suffer and die from deliberate neglect large numbers of doctors, nurses and other medical personnel from Gaza. The decision to leave Gazans without medical care is part and parcel of Israel’s genocidal policy. The Israel Medical Association (IMA),…

5 March 2025 The following is a damning report from Truthout on the condition of Palestinians released in exchange for Israeli hostages in Gaza. As Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor writes: “[T]he atrocities occurring in these prisons are among the worst violations recorded by human rights organizations worldwide. [Torture] is a part of Israel’s crime of…

23 February 2025 Mondoweiss publishes this important report from Healthcare Workers for Palestine drawing upon reliable sources for the claim that Israel continues its long documented practice of stealing organs – for profit – from Palestinian corpses in their possession. A brief history of Israel’s theft and trafficking of Palestinian organs There are over three…

18 February 2025 This article in Conflict and Health sets out a comprehensive critique of the supposedly “neutral” approach that has been widely circulated.