Home > All News Items and Articles 12 September 2024 The Committee for Academic Freedom welcomes the decision of Leeds University to retreat from its threat to remove James Dickins emeritus status but accuses the University of hypocrisy and illegality in threatening to remove all the rights and benefits entailed in his emeritus status. As the Committee suggests, the…
Home > All News Items and Articles 12 September 2024 Students, faculty and others will find the Institute’s Toolkit very useful in their efforts to halt the adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism which in its improperly modified form serves as a weapon to suppress criticism of Israel and support for Palestine. Toolkit: Demand “NO IHRA” This toolkit…
13 September 2024 To assist American students facing intensified repression on campus this academic year, a national Teach-in Network has been launched, the Consortium News reports. Anti-Genocide Students Are Back September 5, 2024 Los Angeles Police Department arresting student protesters at UCLA, May 2, 2024. (By Multiple authors/Darlene L, Matt Baretto, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0) Sustained…
Home > All News Items and Articles 12 September 2024 Katherine Franke, a longtime tenured professor at Columbia University, has been forced to seek legal assistance in face of charges brought by her own university, as this report from the Center for Constitutional Rights describes. This is one more instance of university authorities accepting tendentious claims by pro-Israel students…
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…