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…
As Haaretz declares, Israel’s so-called left Zionists such as the sociologist Eva Illouz [pictured] have distinguished themselves by their moral blindness in face of the genocide their own government is inflicting on the people of Gaza. The Israel Prize for Blindness Goes to Zionist Intellectuals – Opinion – Haaretz.com Hanin Majadli Mar 27, 2025 10:16 pm…
28 March 2025 The US medical establishment failed to call out the Holocaust during the Second World War and sought to defend the South African Medical Association during Apartheid. As this The Nation explains, its continuing silence on the genocide in Gaza is part of the same pattern and explained by the same influences. But…
28 March 2025 As this brilliant, hard-hitting article from The Nation explains, the NEJM’s hypocritical choice of article is at least consistent with the traditional place of healthcare in imperialist politics. (cover photo: al Shifa Hospital, Gaza, after Israeli bombing) March 26, 2025 The World’s Top Medical Journal Is Giving Cover to Genocide The New…
28 March 2025 Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor Emeritus of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, describes in this Guardian article Columbia’s own corruption that led to its downfall, comparing it to the Vichy regime in wartime France which actively collaborated with its Nazi conquerors. Does Columbia still merit the name of a university?…
25 March 2025 The Columbia University administration, having already applied intense repression of student demonstrators and their faculty sympathisers, has now knuckled under to federal pressure even though Washington has signalled that this is just the start of its campaign to neuter US higher education as a whole. As the New York Times reports, a…
20 March 2025 As Joseph Massad (pictured) explains in this Middle East Eye article, academic specialists have radically altered their analysis of relations between Israel and the Palestinians since the 1970s, for the most part seeing it as a settler colonial relationship. Unfortunately, the political class, the mainstream media and non-specialist academics in the West…
19 March 2025 Israeli society is inordinately proud of its contributions to science and Western culture, notwithstanding its crudely racist public policies. It also attempts to whitewash its international image as well as flattering itself by associating foreign scientists and intellectuals with the country by means of expensively funded awards, the Wolf Prize in particular….
17 March 2025 Israel has done its utmost to destroy the physical evidence of Palestine life and culture in Gaza, even as it monopolises archaeology in the Occupied West Bank while barring Palestinian researchers from legitimate investigation of their own heritage. Yet, as Ayman Hassouna explains in this interview for FOBZU, the teaching and practice…
A year ago a Congressional committee accused Minouche Shafik, the then president of Columbia University, of harbouring antisemitic staff and students on campus. Rather than rejecting this charge and affirming that they were critics of Israel’s systematic human rights violations who displayed no hostility towards Jews, Shafik threw them under the bus. That however did…