Israel has destroyed almost all the archaeological sites in Gaza, including one of the oldest churches in the world. In East Jerusalem and the West Bank, too, Israel is using archaeology not only to erase Palestinians’ connection to their land, but in many cases to physically ethnically cleanse them. 25 February 2025 How Israel uses…
In America, just as in Britain, universities are using a variety of illegitimate means to crack down on free speech and outlaw support for Palestinian rights. Here the well-known former Zionist and editor of Jewish Currents, Peter Beinart, analyses the American situation: “By relying on pro-Israel organizations’ analysis of antisemitism—rather than recruiting the scholars on…
This new report by the human rights and free-speech organisation Liberty details the increasing repression by British universities of staff and students who speak up in support of Palestinian rights. 25 February 2025 Uncovered: the ‘worsening crackdown’ on pro-Palestine activism at UK universities Published on 22 February 2025 As many as 113 students and staff…
This report, from the Guardian, 25 February 2025, is the latest in a long line of such reports detailing the detention and systematic torture of Palestinian healthcare workers by the Israeli state. 25 February 2025 More than 160 Gazan medics held in Israeli prisons amid reports of torture Senior doctors claim they were subjected to…
23 February 2025 Two professors at the University of Westmiinster ignored advice from their branch of UCU to participate in a conference on democracy and authoritarianism at the University of Tel Aviv, a longtime collaborator in Israel’s genocidal assault on Palestinians. Evidently, for them, academics should be free to speak wherever and whenever they want,…
23 February 2025 Katherine Franke, a prominent law professor at Columbia University, faced unwarranted accusations from the University’s president and faced such intense pressure from its admiinistration for her pro-Palestinian advocacy that she eventually resigned her tenured post. As this report from the Middle East Eye describes, senior colleagues and emeritus staff from the law…
23 February 2025 As this Middle East Eye report highlights, Israeli academics figure prominently among the advocates of genocide since 7 October 2023. Israeli academics lead way in advocating ‘process of extermination’ of Palestinians Middle East professors at Israel’s top universities openly justify starving Gaza civilians to pave way for the army’s military campaign By Nadav…
23 February 2025 As the Middle East Eye reports, a young Turkish academic working at a British university on a Global Talent visa with no record of extremist activity was refused permission to return to the UK after briefly going back to Turkey, solely on the grounds that he had downloaded a Hamas document explaining…
23 February 2025 Several years ago, Goldsmiths was persuaded by pro-Israel activists to launch a lengthy and expensive investigation of antisemitism on campus which is still ongoing. We now learn from Middle East Eye that it has been obliged to apologise and financially compensate a lecturer for suspending him, thus disrupting his personal and professional…