11 April 2025 The Institut d’Etudes Politiques (IEP) in Strasbourg is one of a network of prestigious degree-giving colleges funded and controlled by the national Ministry of Higher Education. Its students and faculty have expressed overwhelming opposition to continuing its partnership with the Reichman University in Israel on account of Israel’s gross human rights violations…
11 April 2025 The following letter describes just the sort of influence-peddling that academics and professionals must call out or resist. 9 April 2025 Hi all, I am a psychiatrist in training from the Netherlands, Amsterdam. We went to the EPA (European Psychiatric Association) conference in Madrid, where I found out TEVA [the Israeli pharmaceutical…
10 April 2025 This article in The Forward by Paul Nahme, Professor of Jewish Studies at Brown University in Rhode Island [pictured], expresses a widely shared criticism of President Trump’s charges of antisemitism against American universities: they are shutting down intellectual life on campus and exposing Jewish faculty and students to charges that they are…
7 April 2025 Properly regulated, archaeology contributes enormously to our understanding of the past, but in rogue states such as Israel it is frequently used to obscure the truth about past civilisations and prop up falsehoods to justify their presence on the land. Thus complicit archaeologists ignore inconvenient layers of evidence and even destroy them…
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…