19 March 2026 The Universite Paris-Saclay, a recently established tertiary institution in France specialising in science, applied science and mathematics, reluctantly sought to address the question of relations with Israeli universities whose complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza is scarcely in doubt. But as this article by Professor Jonathan Rosenhead (pictured) in the THES…
24 March 2026 UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) is at it again, pressuring the Open University and the British Museum to abandon use of the term Palestine in ancient history because, supposedly, it obscures the “history of Israel and the Jewish people”. Ilan Pappe (pictured) explains in this article in the electronic intifada why the…
24 March 2026 On the principle of “academic freedom”, UCD management defends academics who participate in research projects with Israeli universities which are deeply implicated in Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza and terror campaign in the Occupied West Bank. But on the grounds that it is causing an “environmental hazard” management has secured the support…
24 March 2026 Israel wanted to destroy all of Gaza’s universities. Gazans were determined to keep them open. As this account by Hassan Abo Qamar in the electronic intifada describes, they have stayed open. But their sorry condition and the importance of sustaining Palestinian make it imperative that they should be assisted to recover. Rebuilding…
24 March 2026 Their society devastated by the Nakba in 1948, Palestinians have placed a high value on their cultural assets including schools, universities, libraries and archives, and Israel has targeted them all in its attempt to obliterate Palestinian society. This became grimly evident in Israel’s assault on Gaza after 7 October 2026, as Eman…
24 March 2026 The US Department of Justice is suing Harvard University for permitting students to repeat these slogans which could be interpreted in a certain way and might cause offense to some Jewish students and would therefore be cause for complaint. Harvard seems likely to win its case, but as this article in The…
As this report in +972 explains, governments across the Arab world have severely suppressed all expressions of support for Palestinians since October 2023, yet they have allowed all 14 episodes of the television series “Sohab Al-Ard” to be shown, providing viewers with a deeply moving dramatisation of the horrors that Gaza residents have endured over…
19 March 2026 In an open letter, nearly 150 Jewish faculty and staff at UCLA vigorously dispute the government’s claim that their campus has suffered from systemic antisemitism. Sadly, Zionist conflation of antisemitism and anti-Zionism or merely criticism of Israel’s policy towards Gaza and the OPT is still extremely common across the United States, and…
19 March 2026 Sabri Jiryis’s pioneering study of the foundations of Zionism is now available in English, thanks to his daughter, Fida Jiryis (pictured), who translated it from the Arabic. Fida’s own memoirs, recently published, also deserve a wide readership. Here is Nora Barrows-Friedman’s article about the books in the electronic intifada. The foundations of…
17 March 2026 Dear Professor Phoenix and members of the Vice Chancellor’s Executive, We are writing on behalf of the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine to express our profound concern about your university’s response to a letter from the UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) regarding the use of the term ‘ancient Palestine.’ Based…