13 June 2025 Harvard University is faced with grotesque penalties from the Trump Administration on the grounds that the University has failed to address antisemitism on campus. But as 27 Jewish scholars of Jewish studies – including Barry Trachtenberg (pictured) – point out in this Guardian article, Harvard’s own management has complicated the situation by…
8 June 2025 Academics from around Europe mounted a petition calling upon the EU to suspend its partnership agreement with Israel providing privileged access to EU institutions, since Israel clearly fails to meet the requirement in the agreement to respect human rights. Google immediately took down the petition and suspended the academic who posted it….
7 June 2025 Two University of Birmingham students who have spent near a year under threat of expulsion for peacefully demonstrating for an end to University investments favouring Israel have had their cases dropped, after a sustained campaign by fellow students with support from the European Legal Support Centre. Here is the ELSC report. Case…
7 June 2025 For years students, with support from faculty, have been campaigning courageously for BDS at universities across Europe, North America and beyond. Now at last the first university has acceded to their demands: Trinity College Dublin. Here is reportage from Action for Palestine (AfD) TCS and below that from The Times of Israel…
7 June 2025 Students supported by members of the faculty have scored another victory, this time at Queen’s University Belfast where the management has agreed to divest from all investments in Israel, according to this report in The Irish News online. Queen’s University confirms end to Israeli investments Move follows decision from Trinity College Dublin…
5 June 2025 After years of student campaigns, the board of TCD has finally agreed to cease all ties with Israeli universities and other institutions, including investments and student exchanges, as reported in The Irish Times. In light of the deep implication of Israeli universities in the Israeli state’s ongoing genocide, all universities in the…
30 May 2025 As visitors to this website will know, the UK is deeply complicit in the destruction of Gaza’s schools and universities in Gaza. What is less well known is just how little UK universities are doing to assist Gaza students who have survived the genocide and how many and numerous are the official…
30 May 2025 Several years ago, UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) persuaded academic publishers to allow them to “edit” secondary school texts on the modern Middle East, i.e. turn them into apologies for Israeli apartheid and land theft. It took strenuous efforts by BRICUP to halt this academic vandalism. But UKLFI just won’t give up….
29 May 2025 Calling themselves the Black Flag Action Group, some Israeli academics and administrators have organised the following petition which has gained 1,300 signatures, appealing to their university heads to join them in calling for an immediate halt to the IDF’s murderous assault on Gaza. It has taken over 600 days of unprecedented aerial…
This report from Israel highlights the likely consequences for Israel of its suspension from the Horizon research funding programme and why, even if suspension is unlikely for the time being, individual states and universities should be pressed to boycott Israeli universities and research centres. Calls to exclude Israel from Horizon jeopardize research EU Horizon program…