23 February 2025 As this Middle East Eye report highlights, Israeli academics figure prominently among the advocates of genocide since 7 October 2023. Israeli academics lead way in advocating ‘process of extermination’ of Palestinians Middle East professors at Israel’s top universities openly justify starving Gaza civilians to pave way for the army’s military campaign By Nadav…
23 February 2025 As the Middle East Eye reports, a young Turkish academic working at a British university on a Global Talent visa with no record of extremist activity was refused permission to return to the UK after briefly going back to Turkey, solely on the grounds that he had downloaded a Hamas document explaining…
23 February 2025 Several years ago, Goldsmiths was persuaded by pro-Israel activists to launch a lengthy and expensive investigation of antisemitism on campus which is still ongoing. We now learn from Middle East Eye that it has been obliged to apologise and financially compensate a lecturer for suspending him, thus disrupting his personal and professional…
11 February 2025 Maura Finkelstein was a tenured professor of anthropologist at a private college in Pennsylvania until she expressed criticism of Zionist which led to her being fired: the first tenured professor in America to be fired for such a thought crime. Here, in this stimulating interview with the Real News Network, she describes…
In a victory for free speech – and the right to tell the truth – the University of California, Berkley has withstood Israel-lobby attempts to ban a University event which debunks the false Israeli ‘rape’ claims made against Hamas militants. 9 February 2025 Berkeley Moving Ahead With Event Disputing Oct. 7 Rapes, Citing Academic Freedom…
As the Committee for Academic Freedom reports, the University of Birmingham is threatening to take extreme action against two pro-Palestine students – just the latest attack on pro-Palestinian activists on British campuses. 9 February 2025 Two University of Birmingham students face expulsion after participating in protests Two students at the University of Birmingham may be…
In America, as in Britain and mainland Europe, repression by universities of pro-Palestine activism is getting more extremism. But activists are now pushing back. This report details actions by pro-Palestine students at Columbia University in America to take the University to court for its harrassment of them. 9 February 2025 Columbia students just sued the…
7 February 2025 A group of Jewish academics at Rutgers, the state university of New Jersey, have published an open letter, reprinted below from Mondoweiss, vigorously denouncing Zionist racial supremacists who until now have largely dominated politics on American campuses. To judge from developments on the Rutgers campus, where the faculty union has just overwhelmingly…
1 February 2025 MESA, representing nearly 2,800 academic specialists on the Middle East and North Africa, has set out the circumstances that led to Professor Katherine Franke’s displinary investigation at Columbia University and the extremely one-sided approach taken by the administration in its letter calling for justice. The MESA letter is reprinted here from Informed…
29 January 2025 Members of the American Historical Association at their AGM earlier this month overwhelmingly supported a motion condemning Israel’s systematic destruction of schools, universities and archives and its mass killing of students and faculty: its “scholasticide” as it deserves to be known. But despite having adopted a motion in 2008 condemning the invasion…