22 November 2024 It has taken a very long time for the ICC to follow up the prosecutor’s advice and issue warrants for the arrest of the Israeli prime minister and his recent minister of defence, so long in fact that many suspected political interference had blocked their progress. But at last the Court has…
16 November 2024 As this report in the Mail Online explains, the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, a fabulously wealthy institution, set up a fund to help Ukrainian students almost immediately after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but regrets it now that students are demanding that a similar fund should be set up to help…
11 November 2024 The US Modern Language Association, the largest academic association in the world, would have voted on BDS at its AGM early next year and all the signs are it would have approved it. But as this report in The Chronicle of Higher Education explains, a vote now seems unlikely because the executive…
11 November 2024 Armistice Day is an appropriate time to remember the strong links between universities and the military. Admittedly, the US is a more thorough-going warfare state than the UK or its Continental neighbours, as this excellent article by William Hartung (pictured) in Tom Dispatch describes. The links here are nonetheless strong. The Pentagon…
16 July 2024 The intolerable rabbi at Leeds University: a chronology of outrage and extremism Zecharia Deutsch was Jewish chaplain at Leeds University (also at Leeds Beckett University, and the Universities of York, Hull, Huddersfield, Bradford and Sheffield) from 2021 to2024. In November 2023, Deutsch was called up, or perhaps volunteered, to fight in Israel’s…
The Rabbi, the rapper and the ‘demeritus’ professor: Shadows of Israel’s brutal war on Gaza at the University of Leeds (UK) July 17 2024 Once again, activists in the British Union of Jewish Students (UJS), encouraged by other pro-Israel elements, have targeted a professor known for his support for Palestinian human rights, with the aim of…
22 October 2024 It has long been known that British universities hold massive investments in the Israeli war machine. Now, for the first time, students and staff at one British University, Warwick, have analysed those investments in detail. University of Warwick staff and students outline complicity in Israel’s war crimes and genocide October 22, 2024…
14 October 2024 In a shocking development Israeli academics are now coming out openly in support of the extermination of the Palestinians in Gaza. Time, surely, for the West to boycott Israeli academia. Middle East professors at Israel’s top universities openly justify starving Gaza civilians to pave way for the army’s military campaign By Nadav…
14 October 2024. In Feb. 2024, in a landmark decision, an employment tribunal ruled that Prof David Miller was unfairly dismissed, and that his “anti-Zionist beliefs qualified as a philosophical belief and as a protected characteristic pursuant to section 10 Equality Act 2010”. In its report, just published, the tribunal has concluded that he belief…
14 October 2024 Leeds University administration has now embarrassed itself three times over Israel/Palestine. First, it took back as Leeds University Chaplain, Zecharia Deutsch, who enrolled in the IDF and made statements endorsing Israel’s “plausible case of genocide” (International Court of Justice) in Gaza. Second, it has stripped James Dickins of his Emeritus Professor privileges,…