5 February 2026 Israel easily persuaded Western governments and the West’s complaisant Mainstream Media (MSM) that its assault on Gaza was solely aimed at eliminating Hamas. Leaving aside altogether the accelerating ethnic cleansing of the West Bank, reports such as the following one from Dr Ahmed Muhanna (photo), a prominent Palestinian medical specialist, illustrates just…
5 February 2026 The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) calls on all principled scholars to boycott the conference “Opposing Racial Discrimination: Historical Struggles and Legal Perspectives” to be held at Hebrew University, May 11-12, 2026. How can a conference purporting to address the role of international law in confronting racial prejudice…
3 February 2026 Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is focussing especially on campus activity this year and wants to know what is happening on your campus. The form for registering events can be found by using this link. Register IAW events The event will take place from March 21 – 28 and beyond. All Israeli Apartheid Week…
2 February 2026 This has just come to our attention. For more information, please go to the Al-Shabaka website. Since the beginning of the Zionist colonial enterprise in Palestine in the 1880s and 1890s, Palestinian education has been under sustained and systematic attack. In addition to the massacre of thousands of Palestinians and the ethnic…
1 February 2026 BRISMES, the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, has protested to Queen Mary’s management against their demand that all evidence of concern for human rights in Palestine on faculty office doors and elsewhere must be removed. One wonders if QMUL also considered demanding the removal of similar material referring to human rights…
1 February 2026 BRISMES has written to the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police to object to the threatened arrest of demonstrators who use phrases such as “Globalise the intifada” and “From the river to the sea”. This is sound advice, but unfortunately the Commissioner has been slow to read the request or to grasp its…
30 January 2026 Back in May 2023 the Warden (think Vice-Chancellor or President) of Goldsmiths University of London, launched an inquiry into antisemitism on its campus. The spark, or excuse, for this was an over the top criticism by the student union President of the long-serving Goldsmiths lecturer David Hirsh. Hirsh was a strident critic…
28 January 2026 The website Visualising Palestine partnered with Taawon’s ISNAD program to document scholasticide and the determination of Palestinian scholars and students to resume teaching, researching, and learning. Their devastating yet determinedly hopeful visual account is reproduced below. You can find more visuals on scholasticide by going to “More Than Buildings”: Scholasticide in Gaza – Visualizing…
The Britain Palestine Project’s Annual Conference 2026 invites you to save the date. Recognition Is the beginning will bring together leading historians, analysts, and legal experts to examine what recognition of Palestine must mean in practice – and what responsibilities the UK bears in shaping what comes next. Across a full day of focused discussion, the conference…
