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This investigation by Aaron Walawalkar for Al-Jazeera and Liberty Investigates exposes the heavy-handed, unprincipled methods employed by KCL (and possibly other universities including Oxford, UCL and Cardiff) to intimidate and suppress pro-Palestine student activism. Sadly, it’s not surprising that the university administrators have chosen to ignore their implication in the genocide taking place in Palestine…

6 July 2026 Sitting Tawjihi, Palestine’s equivalent of A-levels in England or Scottish Highers, has always been a challenge, but since they went online after 7 October 2023 they have become a nightmare for students in Gaza, as this article by Ruweida Amer in +972 explains. High school final exam season is stressful. In Gaza,…

3 July 2026 In action all too typical of Israeli forces, IDF soldiers brutally forced their way onto the Birzeit University campus in order to destroy murals depicting Palestinian heroes. Here is The Palestine Chronicle report. Israeli Forces Raid Birzeit University, Destroy Palestinian Murals in West Bank June 29, 2026 News By Palestine Chronicle Staff   Israeli forces…

3 July 2026 In 2023 Melat Kiros, an Ethiopian immigrant, was fired from her job with a New York City law firm for her pro-Palestine activism, but she held firmly to her principles and has just won a remarkable victory over an AIPAC-funded incumbent, practically ensuring her place in Congress in November. Here is a…

3 July 2026 As Al Jazeera reports, the campus protests may have been brutally suppressed and student activists punished for their activism, but the striking victories of activists in recent political contests strongly suggest that the protests had their desired effect in publicising the genocide in Gaza and wrongheadedness of US policy towards Israel and…

3 July 2026 This Report, published by Friends of Palestinian Universities (formerly Friends of Birzeit University), provides a remarkably detailed account of the scholasticide, its importance for Palestinian society, its legal significance, the (as yet feeble) reactions of foreign states and universities, and what the latter should do to assist the reconstruction of Gaza’s higher…

1 July 2026 What sort of country would deliberately destroy every hospital and health centre and kill or incarcerate every hospital director of a captive people? The following article by Alaa Demeida and reprinted from Palestine Deep Dive on the fate of Dr Marwan Al-Sultan, director of the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza, illustrates just how…

1 July 2026 The BRICUP website normally posts exclusively on issues related to education in the UK, Europe, North America, Israel-Palestine and elsewhere. Palestinian advocacy, however, regularly comes up against the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism and its 11 ‘contemporary examples’ including no.10: ‘Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of…

30 June 2026 As this article by Qassam Muaddi in Mondoweiss explains, Israel year after year withholds revenue owed to the Palestine Authority which in turn reduces payments to its teachers or the number of hours for which they are paid. It’s all deliberate and all part of its genocidal policy of destroying Palestinian society….

29 June 2026 Lawrence Davidson, a retired history professor from West Chester University in Pennsylvania and thoughtful commentator on US and Middle East history, invites readers of his blog to consider how Nietzsche’s notion of eternal recurrence applies to Nazi and Zionist education policies. Friedrich Nietzsche and Eternal Recurrence–In Practice June 25, 2026  Posted by Lawrence Davidson  Education, History, Israel, Zionism…