Home > All News Items and Articles 6 October 2024 In what may be a new low in UK university repression, Sheffield University’s managers have decided that a purely internal discussion of the Gaza crisis organised by faculty lecturers and researchers cannot go ahead because it is linked to a “controversial event or topic”. As the saying…
Home > All News Items and Articles 3 October 2024 The Middle East Eye (MEE) has published a useful balance-sheet of student activism over the past academic year. Many university managers have resorted to repression and reports abound of intensified repression in the 2024-5 academic year. But despite the hostile climate created by politicians, pro-Israel propagandists and…
Home > All News Items and Articles 3 October 2024 The US Department of Education’s ironically named Office for Civil Rights (OCR) insists that its investigations of universities and colleges accused of creating unsafe spaces for pro-Zionist Jewish students do not infringe faculty rights to academic freedom or their First Amendment right to free speech. But the…
Home > All News Items and Articles 30 September 2024 Maura Finkelstein (pictured) is the first tenured professor in the United States to be fired for criticising Israel in her social media posts, according to this highly revealing report in The Intercept. What is not new is the massive and sustained campaign to have her fired by the…
30 September 2024 Earlier this summer the Committee on Academic Freedom of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) protested the decision of the Court of St Andrews University to suspend Stella Maris from her elected positions as Rector and trustee of the University. The reply from the Court is reprinted below, along with…
Home > All News Items and Articles 27 September 2024 The president of the IOI has confirmed that members have voted overwhelmingly to exclude the Israel organisation from their community on account of Israel’s unconscionable aggression against the people of Gaza. IOI response to the conflict in Gaza September 24th, 2024 in Organization Dear Colleagues and members of the IOI…
Home > All News Items and Articles 27 September 2024 BRICUP’s associates in Artists for Palestine UK have mobilised a remarkable number of artists to protest the theatre’s censorship. Leading Arts Figures Condemn Anti-Trans and Anti-Palestinian Censorship at Royal Exchange Theatre September 26, 2024 Kingsley Ben-Adir, Khalid Abdalla, Pooja Ghai and April De Angelis are among 200+ arts and theatre…
Home > All News Items and Articles 26 September 2024 Dana Abuqamar, a Palestinian student, is threatened with expulsion from the UK for a speech that was misinterpreted as support for terrorism. Robert Jenrick MP, whose support for Israel is equalled only by his ignorance of Palestinian history, appears to have played a central part in the…
Home > All News Items and Articles 26 September 2024 This report published by the Electronic Intifada vividly describes the massive challenges Gazan children face in their effort to gain an education. Chargers, PDFs and studying under genocide Jannah Ahmad Abu Sitta The Electronic Intifada 26 September 2024 In the heart of Gaza, where war shows no mercy, students battle not…
Home > All News Items and Articles 25 September 2024 Refaat Alareer was a poet and professor of English literature at the Islamic University of Gaza who was killed by Israeli forces earlier this year. His friend, Asem Alnabih, remembers him on his birthday in this article from Mondoweiss. Kites and candles: remembering Refaat Alareer on his birthday It…