4 March 2026 Under pressure from UK Lawyers for Israel, the Open University had banned its staff from using the standard academic term ‘Ancient Palestine’ in their course materials. The OU has now partially reversed that ban, but more needs to be done to force the OU to restore full academic integrity. Open University U-Turns…
3 March 2026 This scathing condemnation of the US-Israel war by Craig Mokhiber, a former UN official and authority on international law, reprinted from Mondoweiss, has little to do directly with Palestine, but it deserves to be read by everyone seeking to understand the current crisis. Understanding the U.S. and Israel’s illegal war on Iran…
2 March 2026 Among the many myths propping up Israel’s legitimacy, one of the hardiest is that in 1948 Palestinians fled their homes, farms, shops and towns of their own volition or at urging of their religious leaders, leaving the land for Zionist settlers to enjoy undisturbed. True, no evidence has ever been adduced to…
2 March 2026 As reported last week, Forensic Architecture and Earshot, two groups of London-based forensic analysts, have undertaken a careful study of the killing of 15 humanitarian workers in southern last March. Here is the link to their lengthy report: https://content.forensic-architecture.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Israeli-Executions-of-Palestinian-Aid-Workers.pdf And here is the Introduction and Summary of their research: Following the ambush,…
15 January 2026 The name Mary Bassett (pictured) may be unfamiliar to British readers, but as this report from The Crimson, the Harvard newspaper, explains, the decision to remove her from her post at Harvard is no small matter. Public Health Faculty Slam Harvard’s Removal of FXB Center Director Mary Bassett A banner at the…
26 February 2026 Is it because the foreign medics have spoken out about the genocide or simply because they are useful to Gaza’s survival? In either case, Israel is breaching its international obligations and denying vital medical assistance to Palestinians. Here’s a useful report from The Guardian. (Cover photo shows the Gaza al-Shifa hospital, destroyed…
26 February 2026 At a well-attended gathering in a Parliamentary room on Tuesday, the British-Palestine Committee hosted experts from Forensic Architecture and Earshot who presented their report on the ugly massacre of 15 Palestinian aid workers in Gaza last year. As with the murder of Hind Rajab and many other outrages over the past two…
University and College Workers for Palestine & the Seminar in Contemporary Marxist Theory warmly invite you to a seminar with Dr Abdaljawad Omar (Birzeit University) Palestine is More Than Itself – on the universal meaning of Gaza Thursday 5 March, 7pm (UK time), 9pm (Palestine)Zoom | register here Dr Abdaljawad Omar is a Palestinian scholar and…
24 February 2026 Larry Haiven, a Canadian antizionist academic, describes his own discovery of deep-seated settler-colonial prejudice in this article in Canadian Dimension. Settler colonial solidarity and me A personal reckoning with how childhood lessons in empire and whiteness help explain Western loyalty to Israel Larry Haiven / September 11, 2025 Many of us wonder why…
18 February 2026 Two years and four months after the Israeli genocide began, university administrators in the US are still yielding to Zionist pressure to remove or suppress any mention of it. Here is a letter of protest issued jointly by AAUP (the American Association of University Professors) and MESA (the Middle East Studies Association…