10 April 2026 In face of resistance from university administrators, Swedish faculty and staff, including PhD students who are normally paid employees of their university, have drafted a petition, known as the Uppsala Declaration, which closely follows the lines of the Academic Commitment initiated by BRICUP some ten years ago and available on this website….
8 April 2026 Hassan Herzallah, a Gaza writer and translator, explains in this article in Waging Nonviolence how university students manage to continue their studies despite the devastation caused by two and a half years of Israeli assault, and why they persist. In Gaza, education is a daily act of quiet resistance For students in…
8 April 2026 As Omar Zahzah of San Francisco State University (pictured) explains in this article for The Palestine Chronicle, the systemic suppression of sympathy for Palestinians in the US is part of a broader campaign to suppress understanding of America’s alignment with Israel on settler colonialism. A Question of Violence: Palestine in American Academia…
8 April 2026 Trump couldn’t have improved on the way two of Britain’s leading peace campaigners, Chris Nineham, head of Stop the War Coalition, and Ben Jamal (pictured), head of Palestine Solidarity Campaign, who have been organising the monthly marches for Palestine in London, were fitted up by the police, then convicted in court last…
1 April 2026 As this report from the Palestine News Network explains, a senior court in Belgium has ruled that the Belgian government has failed to honour its obligations to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) by failing to act in light of the probable genocide in Gaza. The UK government has equal obligations to…
25 March 2026 Emad Abdel-Latif, Professor of Rhetoric and Discourse Analysis at Qatar University, discusses the possible explanations for Jurgen Habermas’s failure to apply consistently his adherence to democratic and humanist principles when it came to the genocide in Gaza. His explanation, which closely resembles Edward Said argument in his famous book The Question of…
25 March 2026 For over two years Israel targeted Palestinian medical personnel and academics in Gaza, killing hundreds in the most blatant of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Now Israel is applying the same criminal policy in Lebanon, as this article in The New Arab describes. States and professional bodies everywhere in the West…
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…