Trump withholds $2 billion from Harvard after it refuses to suppress pro-Palestine staff and students

As the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports, in the latest assault on Palestinian rights by the American government, Trump has frozen over $2 billion to Harvard University after it refused to suppress pro-Palestine actions by staff and students. 21 April 2025 Trump Freezes Over $2b in Funding to Harvard After It Refuses to Accept Reform Demands…

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University of London apologises for bringing ridiculous ‘antisemitism’ charge against lecturer

As reported by Middle East Eye, Goldsmiths, University of London has apologised unreservedly to lecturer, Ray Campbell, after it pursed false ‘antisemitism’ allegations against him made by pro-Israel groups. Campbell commented to Middle East Eye, “When I saw the accusations against me, the first instinct was to laugh. The evidence was so shoddy. If my…

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Trump’s weaponisation of antisemitism is a disaster for universities and threatens Jews as well

18 April 2025 Trump’s weaponisation of antisemitism is a cynical abuse of a legitimate concern that benefits no one and nothing, as this Haaretz article explains 17 April 2025 Combating Antisemitism? Trump’s War on Universities Will Only Make Jews Less Safe It is becoming increasingly clear that the White House’s effort to reshape higher education…

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French government overrides call by faculty and students to break Israel university partnership

11 April 2025 The Institut d’Etudes Politiques (IEP) in Strasbourg is one of a network of prestigious degree-giving colleges funded and controlled by the national Ministry of Higher Education. Its students and faculty have expressed overwhelming opposition to continuing its partnership with the Reichman University in Israel on account of Israel’s gross human rights violations…

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European Psychiatric Association’s “non-political” annual conference sponsored by Israeli firm

11 April 2025 The following letter describes just the sort of influence-peddling that academics and professionals must call out or resist. 9 April 2025 Hi all, I am a psychiatrist in training from the Netherlands, Amsterdam.  We went to the EPA (European Psychiatric Association) conference in Madrid, where I found out TEVA [the Israeli pharmaceutical…

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Jewish scholar warns: Trump’s war on campus “antisemitism” threatens to create antisemitism

10 April 2025 This article in The Forward by Paul Nahme, Professor of Jewish Studies at Brown University in Rhode Island [pictured], expresses a widely shared criticism of President Trump’s charges of antisemitism against American universities: they are shutting down intellectual life on campus and exposing Jewish faculty and students to charges that they are…

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Israel cancels major conference to forestall discussion of its political misuse of archaeology

7 April 2025 Properly regulated, archaeology contributes enormously to our understanding of the past, but in rogue states such as Israel it is frequently used to obscure the truth about past civilisations and prop up falsehoods to justify their presence on the land. Thus complicit archaeologists ignore inconvenient layers of evidence and even destroy them…

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