10 June 2026 Even as official repression of pro-Palestine, anti-genocide action ramps up, university students and staff in Germany, as across Europe, are expressing their support for Palestinian human rights. ‘Historic’ wave of Palestinian solidarity grows at universities in Germany Calls for universities to cut ties with Israeli institutions are rising in the country that…
10 June 2026 The European Legal Support Center (ELSC) has produced an impressive database showing how different European universities are complicit in Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing project in Palestine. Why map the ties between European Universities and Israel? In early 2024, in response to the ongoing genocide in Palestine perpetrated by the state of Israel, students and…
10 June 2026 Across Europe, as in America and Britain, universities are attempting to redefine free speech against genocide and in support of Palestinian rights as ‘antisemitism’. Copenhagen University is the latest example. The University of Copenhagen is complicit in Israel’s genocide in Gaza and is now trying to criminalize those who protest it I…
8 June 2026 Most reports of the crisis in the Middle East leave the impression that it is a male affair while the Palestinian women remain essentially passive. The publication of “Everything We Thought Was Beautiful: Interviews with Radical Palestinian Women” late last year by PM Press offers a useful correction. Here is a review…
BRICUP statement 6 June 2026 After a two year battle the University of Leeds has restored full academic privileges to their Emeritus Professor James Dickins. James was a Professor of Arabic at the University of Leeds from 2010 until his retirement in 2023 when he became an Emeritus Professor. He is Chair of the British…
8 June 2026 Israel has deliberately destroyed Gaza’s libraries, universities and hospitals, killed in the hundreds its academics and medical specialists and practitioners, and cut its energy supplies making practically impossible programmes of remote learning. Yet through sheer determination, Gaza has trained a new cohort of medical doctors, and no doubt to the same high…
6 June 2026 As this Guardian article reports, a University of Chicago professor has been suspended merely for mentioning the word ‘Palestine’ in an assignment. A University of Chicago professor has been suspended merely for mentioning the word ‘Palestine’ in an assignment. ‘We call it the P-word’: Chicago professor suspended after assignment mentions Palestinians School…
3 June 2026 Aneeza Pervez of Clare Hall, Cambridge, has written an important article on the present crisis, implicating UK universities in the continuing genocide in Gaza. Below is a link to Pervez’s recent lecture, followed by her article. The original article can be found on Taylor and Francis online. Witnessing silence: the Palestinian genocide,…
2 June 2026 Book now to watch the lecture or go online to the British International Studies Association to watch it later. Public lecture: Gaza as an epicentre – the breakdown of the international order This event will be in Brighton, UK 2 June 2026 Opening the #BISA2026 conference, this lecture will attempt to provide…
2 June 2026 The Balfour Declaration, issued by the British government in 1917, promised Jews a “homeland” in Palestine. For such an illegitimate and unprincipled promise, which involved handing over the Palestinians’ land to Jewish colonisers from Europe, Britain continues to pay a high price. As the following article from the Morning Star describes, Britain’s…