30 May 2025 Several years ago, UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) persuaded academic publishers to allow them to “edit” secondary school texts on the modern Middle East, i.e. turn them into apologies for Israeli apartheid and land theft. It took strenuous efforts by BRICUP to halt this academic vandalism. But UKLFI just won’t give up….
29 May 2025 Calling themselves the Black Flag Action Group, some Israeli academics and administrators have organised the following petition which has gained 1,300 signatures, appealing to their university heads to join them in calling for an immediate halt to the IDF’s murderous assault on Gaza. It has taken over 600 days of unprecedented aerial…
This report from Israel highlights the likely consequences for Israel of its suspension from the Horizon research funding programme and why, even if suspension is unlikely for the time being, individual states and universities should be pressed to boycott Israeli universities and research centres. Calls to exclude Israel from Horizon jeopardize research EU Horizon program…
US academic, Anna Feder, was fired by Emerson College after 17 years working there, when she spoke up for Palestinian rights. Now she is suing the College for unfair dismissal. The following report is reproduced from Mondoweiss. 25 May 2025 I was fired from Emerson College for speaking out about Palestine, but I refuse to…
Four US academic legal scholars have published a legal analysis concluding that Israel is an apartheid state. Now they wait to see if they will be sacked for speaking the truth. 25 May 2025 We are human rights lawyers. Our new report is clear: Israel perpetrates apartheid Sandra L Babcock, Susan M Akram, Thomas Becker…
As Israel systematically destroys what remains of Gaza’s health system, the NHS responds to this man-made catastrophe … by suspending a doctor who protests against it. 25 May 2025 UK doctor suspended over Gaza posts Electronic Intifada 14 May 2025 For nearly 19 months, Israel, with financial, technological and political support from the US and…
In this article, Atalia Omer considers how the adoption by Harvard University of the IHRA ‘antisemitism’ definition, which conflates criticism of Israeli policies with antisemitism, has led the University to frame pro-Palestine actions at the university as ‘antisemitic’. She argues that this constitutes a threat not only to Palestine solidarity but to free speech and…
20 May 2025 Student pressure over Gaza has at last caused King’s College to announce its intention to divest from arms firms. This is of course good news, but it invites the question: Why did the largely undergraduate student body recognize the ethical and political imperative to divest from such firms so long before the…
20 May 2025 Mathematicians worldwide have called on the board of the International Mathematics Olympiad to suspend Israel from participation in their forthcoming event in Australia. In the past the IMO has frequently taken a stand against major instances of injustice including most recently the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But, as the collective letter below…
16 May 2025 The Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, insists upon applying the IHRA definition to NHS personnel. As the Electronic Intifada reports, this has led to the suspension of a UK doctor merely for telling the truth about Israel’s deadly assault on Gaza in his social media posts. Can the Labour government possibly sink further…