6 April 2025 As The Intercept reports, Germany has taken the decision to deport a Pole, an American and two Irish students for the “crime” of participating in demonstrations in support of Palestine. Thus tragically Zionism has undermined democratic values of free speech and assembly in yet one more country. Germany Turns to U.S. Playbook:…
6 April 2025 Israel’s Palestinian students suffer a two-fold psychological torture, having to live with the daily news of the genocide in Gaza and the total indifference and potential aggression of their Jewish Israeli fellow students. +972Magazine describes their plight. The schizophrenic existence of Palestinian students on Israeli campuses We’ve learned to suppress our identity…
6 April 2025 For years, the McGill University administration, pressured by an uncommonly strong pro-Isreal doner class, has done its level best to suppress student support for Palestinian human rights. Hitherto, piecemeal student action has resulted in severe sanctions. But this has only provoked students, and in late September the student body as a whole…
31 March 2025 Another day, another Israeli attack on Palestinian medical personnel. The story is so familiar as to be almost tiresome, which itself is outrageous. Late last week, members of a Palestine Red Crescent team in Gaza together with other aid workers set off on a rescue mission, only to be fired on by…
31 March 2025 Physicians for Human Rights – Israel has just published a new report on Israel’s systemic violence against Palestinian medical workers in Gaza. Even more recently, the bodies of 14 Palestinian colleagues have been recovered after they were deliberately attacked while wearing clearly marked jackets on a rescue mission. And how has the…
30 March 2025 Ben Gurion University has suspended, then unsuspended Sebastian Ben Daniel (pictured), a lecturer, for his outspoken criticism of the IDF and Zionists, as Haaretz reports. It seems likely he will be suspended again, though it has to be said that his behaviour would probably long before now have led to his dismissal…
30 March 2025 The administrators of Harvard, probably the richest university in the world, have decided it is better to protect their multi-billion dollar endowment than safeguard the core principles of their institution, as this report in the The Harvard Crimson confirms. Having embarked on the slippery slope, they are likely to fall fast and…
30 March 2025 At least some Israeli academics get it: As reported in Haaretz, they state that Washington’s weaponisation of antisemitism under the pretense of protecting Jews actually stifles free speech and academic freedom for everyone and allows the genocide in Gaza to continue. ISRAELI ACADEMICS: US GOVERNMENT ATTACK ON UNIVERSITIES DOES NOT PROTECT US…
30 March 2025 As John Naughton (pictured), the Guardian and Observer’s technology expert explains, the Trump administration’s oppressive policies are leading American academics to behave as if their country is already a police state, three prominent members of the Yale University faculty have already fled to Canada, and universities in several European countries are preparing…
28 March 2025 Avi Shlaim, emeritus professor of International Relations at St. Antony’s College Oxford, has helpfully provided an abstract of his recent article for the British Academy: This article examines the concept of ‘scholasticide’, the deliberate destruction of an educational system and its institutions, in the context of Gaza. Tracing its historical roots to…