2 September 2025 Ireland’s successful efforts to extract students from Gaza and enable them to take up places in its universities should encourage the British government to take similar action. Sadly, despite appeals from the British Academy, university vice-chancellors and others, the government remains unmoved. Here is a report from RTE on the Irish news….
2 September 2025 The International Association of Genocide Scholars have voted overwhelmingly to adopt a resolution condemning Israel’s crimes in Gaza including genocide. A report from Reuters and the Association’s resolution are printed below. 2 September 2025 By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) -The world’s leading genocide scholars’ association has passed a resolution…
29 August 2025 The following tribute is by Tom Hickey, a longstanding member of BRICUP who worked on Palestine solidarity with Steven from the early years of the Committee’s operation. He is a former member of the UCU National Executive Committee, and played a significant role in winning the union’s formal support for the BDS…
https://chuffed.org/project/143224-help-fight-lawfare-against-pro-palestine-academics-at-the-university-of-sydney Help University of Sidney Palestine advocates defeat Israel Lobby legal attack! As in Britain, so in Australia, Palestinian rights advocates at universities are coming under relentless attack. At the University of Sydney, Dr Nick Riemer and Professor John Keane are being sued in the Federal Court of Australia, on the basis that their opposition…
20 August 2025 An article in the Hebrew edition of Haaretz confirms that the general boycott of Israel is still in its early stages but the academic boycott is already hitting hard. Here is an auto-translation of the relevant section of the article. 8 August 2025 This is, except for a single branch: Israeli academia….
18 August 2025 Avi Shlaim, emeritus professor of International Relations at Oxford University (pictured), has joined calls for the British government to assist Gaza students who have earned places at British universities but are unable to take them up because British visas are unobtainable and the Israelis will not allow them to leave. Since, as…
17 August 2025 Here is a second obituary of Steven Rose, who was instrumental in founding BRICUP, by fellow scientist John Parrington in the Jacobin magazine. Steven Rose Brought His Science and Socialism Together By John Parrington Steven Rose, who died last month, was a major figure in the field of neuroscience and a brilliant…
17 August 2025 Steven Rose, who played the decisive role in establishing BRICUP in 2004, died on 9 July. Here is how The Times remembered him. Steven Rose obituary: Vituperative neuroscientist Academic who showed little tolerance for IQ testing, but made steps towards a treatment for Alzheimer’s, dies aged 87 The Times, Wednesday August 13…
17 August 2025 The US Administration has strong-armed MIT, Harvard and other elite universities into increasing their links with Israeli institutions. But as +972 reports, faculty and students however are hostile to these partnerships as illustrated by their near total rejection of Israel Studies programmes. After crushing dissent, U.S. universities are deepening ties with Israeli…
15 August 2025 Leading mathematicians, with Ahmed Abbes of CNRS (pictured) leading, have returned the medals they earned at the International Mathematical Olympiad in protest at the failure of the Olympiad organisation to suspend Israel for its genocide in Gaza. Thanks to our French colleagues in AURDIP for this report. We return our IMO medals…