20 May 2025 Student pressure over Gaza has at last caused King’s College to announce its intention to divest from arms firms. This is of course good news, but it invites the question: Why did the largely undergraduate student body recognize the ethical and political imperative to divest from such firms so long before the…
20 May 2025 Mathematicians worldwide have called on the board of the International Mathematics Olympiad to suspend Israel from participation in their forthcoming event in Australia. In the past the IMO has frequently taken a stand against major instances of injustice including most recently the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But, as the collective letter below…
16 May 2025 The Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, insists upon applying the IHRA definition to NHS personnel. As the Electronic Intifada reports, this has led to the suspension of a UK doctor merely for telling the truth about Israel’s deadly assault on Gaza in his social media posts. Can the Labour government possibly sink further…
16 May 2025 Four prominent American human rights lawyers reconfirm the verdict of leading organisations including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and B’Tselem in their Guardian article. We are human rights lawyers. Our new report is clear: Israel perpetrates apartheid The Guardian, 15 May 2025 Sandra L Babcock, Susan M Akram, Thomas Becker and James Cavallaro…
This website is normally restricted to aspects of the struggle for justice in Palestine involving universities and academics in the UK, Palestine and elsewhere. But the history of Israel’s decades-long use of food insecurity as a weapon against the Palestine is so important and so little understood that we are publishing below an excellent account…
14 May 2025 The Financial Times has published a letter from Oxford academics from a wide range of disciplines expressing their solidarity with Harvard colleagues whose institution is seeking to resist the interference of the Trump administration in its admissions procedures, teaching and research. 12 May 2025 Letter: Trump attack on academic freedom ‘must be…
2 May 2025 The following statement published in Academe Blog by three Jewish American academics (Professors Meyerhoff and Schneider pictured) sets out in clear, unambiguous language the unchallengeable truth that what public authorities and the mainstream media endlessly label antisemitism in their references to student and faculty campaigning for peace and justice in Israel/Palestine is…
The Herald, 2 May 2025, by Gabriel McKay
30 April 2025 Among other research universities, Northwestern has been a target of Trump’s financial assault. Now, in a remarkable display of solidarity, the University’s faculty assembly has voted overwhelmingly to support a motion drafted by the local AAUP setting out the action to be taken against the Administration’s attempt to undermine independent thinking and…
Here is a list of the books removed earlier this month from the shelves of the Nimitz Library at the US Naval Academy in Maryland. The list is helpfully provided by the Department of Defense. Among the 381 dangerous books removed are the following: 316 Kate Normington, Gender and medieval drama (2004). Contents described as:…