13 March 2025 The more than two hundred California Scholars for Academic Freedom have written to Columbia’s president and law school dean urging them to defend Mahmoud Khalil (pictured), the Palestinian student recently arrested and threatened with deportation for exercising his First Amendment rights. As they point out in their letter, reprinted here from Informed…
13 March 2025 As the New York Times reports, Jewish Onliner, a web-based snooping device, reported to the US authorities that Helyeh Doutaghi (pictured), a young scholar at the Yale University School, is a terrorist. Jewish Onliner, it seems, relies upon AI to identify “terrorists”, and in this case it identified a connection between Doutaghi…
11 March 2025 The combination of a fanatically pro-Israel Administration in Washington that weaponises false charges of antisemitism and support for Hamas, an utterly pusillanimous management at Columbia University and a complicit mainstream media that has chosen not to inform the American public of the lawless attack on pro-Palestinian advocates and their Constitutional rights is…
10 March 2025 According to the following report in The Architect’s Newspaper, the directors of the Association of the Collegiate Schools of Architecture which publishes the peer reviewed Journal of Architectural Education commissioned a special issue of the journal on Palestine, issued a call for papers, then, rather than face down outside pressure and risk…
6 March 2025 As this article from Jewish News explains, the Home Office will be closely monitoring an academic event at the LSE to discuss a new book, Understanding Hamas and Why that Matters, and has threatened participants that if they appear to sympathise with the Palestinians who are resisting Israel’s illegal siege of Gaza…
Since October 2023, Israel has set about systematically destroying the infrastructure of Gaza’s universities – a crucial part of its now openly admitted plan to ethnically cleanse the entire population of the Gaza Strip. 6 March 2025 The decimation of Gaza’s academia is ‘impossible to quantify’ With thousands of faculty and students likely killed and…
Oxford University has large investments in Elbit Weapons Systems, responsible for production of 85% of Israel’s military drones and directly linked to documented war crimes against Palestinians. University staff and students, local activists and Palestine Action, are pushing back. 6 March 2025 After Oxford, Cambridge University just got reminded of its bloody investments in Israel…
Across Britain, universities have £ hundreds of millions invested in Israeli apartheid and the Israeli war machine. Across Britain, too, academics and students are refusing to accept this grotesque situation. 6 March 2025 After Oxford, Cambridge University just got reminded of its bloody investments in Israel In the early hours of 4 March, a group…
Columbia University using secret processes to punish pro-Palestine students As in Britain, so in America, universities are taking extreme measures to silence pro-Palestine voices. Eve while Donald Trump threatens sweeping action against “illegal protest” on US university campuses, Columbia University is already using secret processes to punish pro-Palestine students Columbia University’s Secret Disciplinary Process for…
7 March 2025 The Middle East Studies Association’s Committee on Academic Freedom have called on Governor Hochul (pictured) and the officials of Hunter College to reverse their demand that an advertisement of a post in Palestine Studies be removed (see our article of 5 March.) This is an eminently reasonable request, but when it comes…