21 November 2025 In a strongly worded letter to the head of the College de France and the Minister of Higher Education and Research in France, the Academic Council of JVP criticise the decision to cancel the international conference on Gaza and Europe that was to take place at the College last week. One might…
In America, as in the UK, pro-Israel groups are moving to outlaw solidarity with Palestine on university and college campuses. This report, from the Guardian, 25 February 2025, is the latest in a long line of such reports detailing the detention and systematic torture of Palestinian healthcare workers by the Israeli state. 18 November 2025…
16 November 2025 It is one of the more unpleasant ironies of our time that right-wing authorities in the Western world regularly accuse the universities of ‘no platforming’ presenters of unfashionable ideas (their own), when the only instances of no platforming that academics are aware of have involved suppressing the Palestinian voice at the insistence…
16 November 2025 The College de France is probably the most prestigious academic institution in France. Distinguished academics from all over the world are invited to spend a term or longer at the College and to give lectures free and open to the public. At any one time the visitors include a number of Nobel…
15 November 2025 Despite the most appalling interference by the Minister of Higher education and Research, yielding to pressure from right-wing media and pro-Israel interests in France, and despite the abysmal complacency of a magistrate who refused to reverse the Minister’s objection, the organisers of the international conference on Palestine have seen to it that…
10 November 2025 Marianne Hirsch, professor emerita of English at Columbia and a child of survivors of the Rumanian holocaust, discusses with Masha Gessen, an opinion columnist at The New York Times, how she would teach the Holocaust differently in light of genocide in Gaza. We Need to Rethink How We Think About the Holocaust…
10 November 2025 One might have expected the French government to allow academics freely to discuss the history of Zionism and the fate of Palestine in face of Israeli expansion, now that the United Nations along with practically every human rights organisation in the world has declared Israel’s assault on Gaza an act of genocide…
9 November 2025 For Palestinians, the importance of education can scarcely be overstated. This is partly because they possess practically no other resource than their own human ingenuity to sustain the economic life of their besieged communities. But equally it is because education alone can sustain their traditions, history and culture, their national aspirations and…
6 November 2025 It’s the same old story. Pro-Israel academics at Goldsmiths University of London, alleging widespread antisemitism on campus, demanded an inquiry, counting on naive managers to share their conflation of anti-zionism and antisemitism. In response, the managers spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on a KC-led enquiry, then apparently having learned nothing from…
4 November 2025 The Electronic Intifada publishes this deeply moving account of a teacher who has persevered throughout Israel’s two year-long attempt to destroy all cultural production in Gaza and kept alive her students’ hopes for an education. Teaching in the midst of genocide Sara Nabil Hegy The Electronic Intifada 4 November 2025 In the first week…