13 December 2024 You couldn’t make it up! Sussex University decided to hold a conference on “Displacement, Forced Migration and Reparation” and invited the Hebrew University to collaborate with it. How could the organisers not know of the Hebrew University’s decades long complicity in ethnic cleansing: its special treatment for IDF soldiers, its links with…
3 December 2024 1300 Japanese researchers have expressed their horror at the ongoing genocide in Gaza and call on the Japanese Government and the International Community. In their words, “The attitude of the Netanyahu administration, continuing war and mass killings in defiance of international law, reminds us of the path taken by Japan in the…
3 December 2024 Benny Morris was once one of Israel’s “new historians” who, drawing upon archival evidence, exposed many of the myths employed to justify Israel’s foundation and expansion well beyond the UN partition line. He has since become a house historian, defending the Israeli record of ethnic cleansing and apartheid. Students at Leipzig University,…
3 December 2024 Susan Abulhawa has posted her speech at the Oxford Union last Thursday, along with a description of the arrangements that preceded the event. Her speech is one of the powerful condemnations of Zionist practice ever uttered. Both documents are worth reading. Susan Abulhawa’s website has mysteriously crashed, so the documents below are…
30 November 2024 Yves Engler, who was expelled years ago from his Quebec university for organising demonstrations against a visit by Binjamin Netanyahu, describes in his blog the prolonged struggle of McGill University students to demonstrate their solidarity with Palestine in face of a trio of pro-Zionist antidemocratic forces, the University administration, billionaire University benefactors…
30 November 2024 The Oxford Student publishes the following, more detailed, account of the Oxford Union debate last Thursday. 29th November 2024 Ex-IDF soldier and former spy for Israel among surprise speakers at Union Palestine debate Yunzhang Liang, Peter Lenahan and Cameron Samuel Keys On November 29th, the Oxford Union debated the motion, “This House…
30 November 2024 The York University Faculty Association has adopted a list of practical action to support Gaza’s beleagured university community and drafted a letter to their University president setting out in detail the “scholasticide” taking place in Gaza and the action the University, which could serve as models for faculty here. Set out below…
29 November 2024 In February 1933, just weeks after Hitler took office in Germany, the overwhelmingly middle-class students of the Oxford Union adopted the motion that they would refuse to fight for “king and country”. This shocked the British establishment, not because it intended to wage war against Germany, far from it, but because of…
29 November 2024 Student members of “Cambridge for Palestine” ended their encampment last summer on the assurance from the University administration that it would carefully consider their demands, including the full disclosure of University investments to ensure it was not profiting from genocide and abandoning the IHRC definition of antisemitism. They have concluded that the…
29 November 2024 After MIT, Cornell University is one of the first major US universities to become enmeshed in dispute over freedom to teach the Palestine experience in a formal course but it certainly won’t be the last, especially as the incoming US President has declared his intention to do everything he can to close…