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The UK academics who simply can’t understand why colleagues would boycott Israeli university supporting genocide
23 February 2025 Two professors at the University of Westmiinster ignored advice from their branch of UCU to participate in a conference on democracy and authoritarianism at the University of Tel Aviv, a longtime collaborator in Israel’s genocidal assault on Palestinians. Evidently, for them, academics should be free to speak wherever and whenever they want,…
Eminent academics at Columbia University demand enquiry into circumstances of Katherine Franke’s resignation
23 February 2025 Katherine Franke, a prominent law professor at Columbia University, faced unwarranted accusations from the University’s president and faced such intense pressure from its admiinistration for her pro-Palestinian advocacy that she eventually resigned her tenured post. As this report from the Middle East Eye describes, senior colleagues and emeritus staff from the law…
The Israeli academics who have urged on genocide in Gaza since 7 October 2023
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…
Home Office expels Turkish academic for possessing a well-known Hamas document on his phone
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…
Goldsmiths University of London taken in again by pro-Israel activists, forced to apologise and compensate lecturer
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…
A Jewish anthropologist on the future of Palestine
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…
Berkeley moves ahead with event debunking Israel’s bogus Oct. 7 ‘rape’ claims
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…
University of Brimingham threatens to expel two students for pro-Palestine activism
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…
Columbia students sue University for attacks on pro-Palestine activism
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…