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…
Glasgow University academics are among a growing number of university groups in the UK and abroad who have decided they must speak up against the Israeli destruction of Gaza and its people. The original of the following report in The Ferret, Scotland’s cooperative newspaper, can be found here. More than 200 Glasgow University academics call…
Home > All News Items and Articles Since 7 October Israel has been systematically targeting houses, mosques, churches, hospitals, clinics, schools and universities in Gaza, and not only universities but their senior personnel as well. All the while, UK vice-chancellors have ducked their heads and said nothing. BRICUP has therefore sent them the following letter,…
Another day, another Israeli assassination of a leading Gaza educator. Refaat Alareer was a highly popular Professor of English at the Islamic University, a poet, author and blogger. So the Israelis killed him. He had been living in a refugee camp but on receiving anonymous calls from Israel threatening his life, he moved back to…
The following tribute was published by our French colleagues in AURDIP (the Association des Universitaires pour le Respect du Droit International en Palestine). POSTED ON DECEMBER 8, 2023 | DAN SHEEHAN | LITERARY HUBSOURCE The Palestinian poet, writer, literature professor, and activist Dr. Refaat Alareer was killed today in a targeted Israeli airstrike that also killed his brother, his sister,…
Home > All News Items and Articles Israel has been masterful at controlling the narrative over its oppression of Palestinians, and never more so than in the seven weeks since it launched its genocidal assault on Gaza. Among others, universities and public art galleries in Britain, Germany and elsewhere have been frightened or intimidated into…
Home > All News Items and Articles Richard Silverstein (pictured) is an American, a Jew and an acute observer of Israel and its American supporters. His latest report on the killing of Refaat Alareer makes for chilling reading. The thousands marching for Gaza in London regularly chant “Israel is a terrorist state”. Given what we…
A broad coalition of faculty groups at the University of Edinburgh joined in requesting the administration to safeguard free speech on Palestine. But in a remarkable statement of demands, the coalition went further by calling for an end to complicity in Israel’s savage repression of Palestinian human rights: by ending financial investment and research links…