Home > All News Items and Articles 13 September 2024 Students and faculty at the University of California Santa Cruz are pushing back strongly against their University’s arbitrary banning of demonstrations and sanctions against participants, as this report in Common Dreams describes. Pro-Palestine Students, Faculty Sue UC Santa Cruz Over ‘Unconstitutional’ Ban The lawsuit was filed “to vindicate the…
Home > All News Items and Articles 12 September 2024 In this article in Al Jazeera, Somdeep Sen, a professor at Roskilde University, Denmark, brings the charge sheet against Israeli universities set out by Maya Wind in her Towers of Ivory and Steel right up to date. Israeli academia is directly complicit in the crimes of the state Israeli universities…
15 September 2024 This report in the always excellent +972 provides shocking evidence of discrimination against Palestinian students at Haifa University, the Israeli tertiary institution with the highest proportion of Palestinian students. How Haifa University’s Students’ Union conspired against Palestinians Palestinian students arrived at the union’s office to submit their candidacy for elections. The administration…
3 September 2024 As this article reproduced from Mondoweiss details, US universities are planning extreme measures to shut down student support for Palestine in the coming academic year. U.S. universities spent the summer strategizing to suppress student activism. Here is their plan. Schools across the U.S. have altered policies and even landscapes in an attempt…
7 September 2024 In light of the estimates presented recently in The Lancet, the number of Gazans killed by Israel has probably exceeded 200,000 by now. And as that number is rising daily – from bombs and rockets, drone and artillery attacks, assassinations, malnutrition, disease and untreated illness – one might imagine that students and…
7 September 2024 This report from the International Science Council and reproduced with thanks from the AURDIP website deserves to be read by everyone interested in the fate of the Palestinian people and in particular by every academic and university administrator. Science in ruins: Gaza’s scientists call for global support Posted on August 27, 2024 | Riley Sparks | The…
7 September 2024 Hollywood has a long history of presenting foreigners as the objects of derision or disdain and no group has suffered such treatment more than Palestinians in their relations with Israeli Jews. Palestinian film-makers have finally pushed back in the following statement. More Than 65 Palestinian Filmmakers, Including Hany Abu Assad, Elia Suleiman and…
6 September 2024 This report from The New Arab, confirming the desperate measures some American universities are taking, point to the near certainty of further clashes between administrators, police and students in the coming year. As US university classes resume, so do concerns over curtailing free speech and support for Palestine “I don’t know what’s…
6 September 2024 This report from The Palestine Chronicle confirms just how out of touch university authorities are even in a relatively democratic country such as Denmark. ‘Academic Boycott Now!’ – Greta Thunberg among Students Detained at Danish University Protest September 4, 2024 Blog, News By Palestine Chronicle Staff “We specifically demand that KU cancel its research collaborations…
Ceasefire NOW! UCU joins with many others in Palestine, the UK, and beyond to reiterate the demands for an immediate ceasefire, the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages, unrestricted access to humanitarian aid, and the lifting of the siege of Gaza. We are very concerned by the sharp rise in antisemitism and Islamophobia across…