18 December 2024 Despite the call from the International Court of Justice to all UN members to halt any support for Israel’s probable genocidal assault on Gaza, the EU continues its support of Israeli research much of which assists the country’s military, as this important Al Jazeera report confirms. EU research funds flow to Israel…
17 December 2024 The Arab Open University (AOU) and The Open University (OU) have announced the establishment of a hardship fund of £100,000 for Palestinian students from Gaza and Lebanon to support them in completing their studies with the AOU. The AOU and OU have established that 1,583 Palestinian students are studying with the AOU…
17 December 2024 What is one to make of the American medical establishment including its leading journals, which have remained stubbornly silent over the genocide unfolding before us all? Mondoweiss has published this excellent analysis including a compelling answer to the question. (Pictured is Dr Eric Rubin, editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine,…
17 December 2024 The BMJ has published this account of the appalling fate of Adnan Al-Bursh, a prominent surgeon who trained at King’s College Hospital London, after being taken prisoner by Israeli forces in Gaza. Al-Bursh is only one of many Palestinian medical personnel and healthcare workers who have been seized and tortured or killed…
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…