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9 October 2025 Dr Derek Summerfield is a Consultant Psychiatrist and an authority on the psychological effects of war, torture and forced displacement on civilian populations and especially women and children. His editorial on the impact of Israel’s genocide in Gaza was published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). Here are his reflections on the…

6 October 2025 The Palestine Chronicle has reprinted the contents of a report by the Gaza Government setting out many of the statistics required to grasp the appalling scale of Israel’s genocide. It should be noted that they were compiled before the latest Israeli assault on Gaza City and environs. Shocking Figures: Two Years of…

5 October 2025 The Guardian offers a complimentary report on the new study published in the BMJ and introduced by Dr Derek Summerfield in the previous post. Civilian injuries in Gaza similar to those of soldiers in war zones, study finds Wounds such as burns or leg injuries more common in Gaza than among US…

5 October 2025 The full horror of the nearly three-year long Israeli military onslaught on Gaza, which has destroyed over 70 per cent of all medical facilities and some 95 per cent of housing, is set out in a new report on the plight of civilian victims in the BMJ (British Medical Journal. Here is…

5 October 2025 Protesting Northwestern U’s Flawed Compulsory Training on Criticism of Israel as “Antisemitism” 10/04/2025 President Trump’s attempt to intimidate American universities into adopting his perverted values has led to a major controversy at Northwestern University in Evanston Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. The University has made a course on “antisemitism” a pre-requisite for…

25 September 2025 The BRICUP website normally focusses upon academic-related news, but with leaders of Western states queueing up to repeat their ritual pronouncements for a two-state solution, while remaining silent on how they would overcome Israel’s rigid opposition to a Palestinian state or even how they would contribute to a ceasefire in Gaza or…

24 September 2025 Despite the decision of the UK, France, Canada and Australia formally to recognise a Palestinian state, the presence of nearly 800,000 aggressive, fascistic Israeli settlers illegally occupying the West Bank and East Jerusalem as well as parts of Syria and Lebanon makes it difficult to imagine the establishment of a coherent Palestinian…

21 September 2025 M. J. Rosenberg, who once worked for AIPAC but saw the light, maintains a very stimulating substack blog devoted to Israel/Palestine and the American Israel lobby. Here he republishes Haaretz’s report on the growing impact of BDS upon Israel. It understates the significance of BDS, and not least academic boycott, before 7…

20 September 2025 The surrender by the administrators of the University of California Berkeley (San Francisco) has been highlighted in a post published on this site five days ago. The response by Berkeley faculty published by Mondoweiss is reprinted below. Berkeley faculty and staff members: We condemn the school’s surrender to Trump, and we will…