1 February 2026 BRISMES, the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, has protested to Queen Mary’s management against their demand that all evidence of concern for human rights in Palestine on faculty office doors and elsewhere must be removed. One wonders if QMUL also considered demanding the removal of similar material referring to human rights…
1 February 2026 BRISMES has written to the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police to object to the threatened arrest of demonstrators who use phrases such as “Globalise the intifada” and “From the river to the sea”. This is sound advice, but unfortunately the Commissioner has been slow to read the request or to grasp its…
30 January 2026 Back in May 2023 the Warden (think Vice-Chancellor or President) of Goldsmiths University of London, launched an inquiry into antisemitism on its campus. The spark, or excuse, for this was an over the top criticism by the student union President of the long-serving Goldsmiths lecturer David Hirsh. Hirsh was a strident critic…
28 January 2026 The website Visualising Palestine partnered with Taawon’s ISNAD program to document scholasticide and the determination of Palestinian scholars and students to resume teaching, researching, and learning. Their devastating yet determinedly hopeful visual account is reproduced below. You can find more visuals on scholasticide by going to “More Than Buildings”: Scholasticide in Gaza – Visualizing…
The Britain Palestine Project’s Annual Conference 2026 invites you to save the date. Recognition Is the beginning will bring together leading historians, analysts, and legal experts to examine what recognition of Palestine must mean in practice – and what responsibilities the UK bears in shaping what comes next. Across a full day of focused discussion, the conference…
26 January 2026 As if enduring two years of Israel’s genocidal military assault was not punishment enough, Gaza students who persisted in their studies despite near-impossible conditions and won scholarships to British universities are unable to take them up because of obstacles the UK government seems unwilling to remove. A spokesperson for the government claims…
25 January 2026 Craig Mokhiber, the international human rights lawyer and former senior United Nations Official, left the UN in October of 2023, penning a widely read letter that warned of genocide in Gaza, criticized the international response and called for a new approach to Palestine and Israel based on equality, human rights and international…
A new bill in Israel, “which seeks to destroy academia, is another link in the Netanyahu government’s chain of destruction, aimed at strangling Israeli democracy” and turning “Israel into a dictatorship”. 16 Jan. 2026 Netanyahu’s Destructive Coalition Turns Its Attention to Crushing Academia Jan 16, 2026 12:17 The bill to “strengthen transparency and public oversight…
15 January 2026 The name Mary Bassett may be unfamiliar to British readers, but as this report from The Nation explains, the decision to remove her from her post at Harvard is no small matter.
15 January 2026 Activists will be interested in the work of the Palestine Institute of Public Diplomacy whose website is here. Who We Are The Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy The Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy (PIPD) is a non-governmental independent organization advocating for the liberation of Palestine from all forms of settler colonialism. Our team is…