BRICUP has just received the appeal below from 15 Palestinian Universities for justice and freedom for Palestine. In response to this appeal, and to the outrageous slaughter being visited by Israel on the people of Gaza, BRICUP is taking the following actions: A Unified Call for Justice and Freedom in Palestine A call from Palestinian…
Popular Resistance has published a deeply disturbing account of Israel’s current assault on Gaza and the Occupied West Bank, describing in particular the murderous consequences for Palestinian universities and schools, the students and the staff who work in them. The assault on Palestinian education began sixty years ago, but since 7 October it has intensified…
Artists for Palestine UK (APUK), BRICUP’s sister organisation, has gathered over 1,000 British artists including Academy and Bafta award winners to join in the call for an immediate ceasefire and an end to the silencing of Palestinian voices. Their list of incidents, in Britain and abroad, where Palestinians and their works of art have been…
The Palestinian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research condemned Israeli attacks on the Palestine Technical University Kadoorie in Tulkarm, the Al-Quds Open University in Gaza and other institutions of higher learning which left many of them devastated. It also supplied shocking photos of the attacks and damage carried out. This report comes from the…
Home > All News Items and Articles Sufian Tayeh, President of the Islamic University of Gaza and an internationally recognised physicist and applied mathematician, along with his whole family was killed on Saturday, 2 December, after Israel resumed its assault on Gaza. As Israeli defence spokespeople frequently boast of the pinpoint accuracy of their weapons,…
Home > All News Items and Articles Palestinian faculty and students inside Israel have long faced hostility and discrimination, but the intensity as well as the consequences have greatly increased since 7 October along with students suspended and expelled, and faculty sanctioned and fired. The +972 report, reprinted below, can be found here. Israeli academia…
Home > All News Items and Articles Led by the law professor Jeff Handmaker (pictured), academics at Erasmus University Rotterdam organised two teach-ins, one in The Hague campus, the other in the Rotterdam campus, to discuss claims by members of the academic community of feeling ‘uncomfortable’ when controversial issues are raised and feeling ‘unsafe’. As…
The Israeli assault on Gaza has not only killed thousands and destroyed much of their housing. It has also led, quite deliberately, to the destruction of much of Gaza’s cultural heritage. The UN Convention defines genocide as the commission of certain acts “committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical,…
Colleagues in AURDIP, The French Association Universitaires pour le Respect des Droits Internationals en Palestine, have challenged the association of university presidents for remaining silent on Israel’s systematic assault on Gaza’s education system where all eleven universities have been destroyed or made unusable. Their original report, reprinted below, can be found here. Exchange between AURDIP…
Home > All News Items and Articles The group, Architects for Gaza, has gathered over 500 signatures from architects and related professions in support of its call for an immediate, permanent ceasefire and for Gaza to be rebuilt with the involvement of the professions. The Architects’ Journal report printed below can be found here. Hundreds…