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…
Home > All News Items and Articles 24 September 2024 Professor Hank Reichman (pictured) on behalf of the leading faculty association in California sets out the case against the state university system for its brutal, illegal and thoroughly reprehensible suppression of legitimate protest by students and faculty in support of Palestine, as reported in Academe Blog. ACADEME BLOG…
Home > All News Items and Articles 24 September 2024 Pankaj expertly links the mainstream media’s systematic silencing of criticism of Israel with the rise of racism in India, Canada and elsewhere in the West in this interview to The Breach. Globe and Mail censored criticism of Israel by award-winning Indian author Pankaj Mishra’s lecture tracked two decades of…
20 September 2024 The vote, Omar Barghouti (pictured) explains in this article published by the Guardian, is historic in several respects. Will the historic UN vote for sanctions on Israel change reality for Palestinians? Palestinians have never given up hope in our decades-old resistance to Israel’s ruthless regime of oppressionThu 19 Sep 2024 21.24 BST Canada abstained…
Home > All News Items and Articles 20 September 2024 This article in ScienceBusiness is now nearly four months old, but the direction of travel for the boycott campaign seems well established. Academic boycotts over Gaza war jeopardise Israel’s place in Horizon Europe 23 May 2024 European universities are cutting ties and ending cooperation, raising questions over Israel’s future…
19 September 2024 The provost of Concordia University in Montreal has just circulated a “guidance” to departments and other sections of the University banning them from expressing their collective support for Palestine without quite ever mentioning Palestine or the pro-Israel members of the University community who might feel “uncomfortable” with such expressions of support. This,…
Home > All News Items and Articles 19 September 2024 UN members overwhelmingly supported Palestinian demands: 124 to 14, and if we subtract the votes of the tiny Pacific islands whose votes appear to be regularly purchased, the outcome was 124 to 7 with the 7 including Israel (and of course the US.) Within Europe a number…