French government overrides call by faculty and students to break Israel university partnership

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…

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European Psychiatric Association’s “non-political” annual conference sponsored by Israeli firm

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…

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Jewish scholar warns: Trump’s war on campus “antisemitism” threatens to create antisemitism

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…

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Israel cancels major conference to forestall discussion of its political misuse of archaeology

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…

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The unimaginable psychological plight of the Palestinian students in Israel

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…

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Israel’s abuse, torture and disappearance of Palestinian medical workers reaches new heights while medical world remains silent

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…

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