In a worrying development, the University of Birmingham Administration ordered a discussion of the crisis in Palestine wholly within the Law Department in November to be cancelled on preposterously inadequate grounds. The Dean of the Law School initially endorsed the cancellation on scarcely less spurious grounds, then apologised. But the Administration has since failed to…
Home > All News Items and Articles Predictably, Palestinian students in Israeli universities are being regularly censured and punished for expressing their views on social media. Equally predictably, Jewish students in Israeli universities are not. It has often been claimed that the universities in Israel are islands of liberalism in a sea of increasing illiberalism….
Home > All News Items and Articles According to a report from the Ministry of Education in Ramallah, 4,119 students have been killed in Gaza and 37 in the Occupied Palestinian Territories since 7 October 2023. In addition, 221 teachers and administrators have been killed. 381 schools have been bombed and vandalised, and the few…
Sarah Roy, a Harvard political scientist and an authority on Palestine, presents a personal account of how Israel has punished Gaza year after year for over half a century, turning it from a functioning economy to an impovershed and dysfunctional one. The original account can be found here. The Long War on Gaza POSTED ON DECEMBER…
Home > All News Items and Articles The Congressional hearings on 5 December on higher education attracted worldwide interest when the presidents of three elite universities faced aggressive questioning on their handling of supposedly antisemitic demonstrations on campus. Two of the presidents, of the Universities of Pennsylvania and Harvard, subsequently resigned. This has generated more…
Home > All News Items and Articles As late as 2023, secular Jews in pre-1967 Israel were seeking to defend the liberal democratic character of their country – for its Jewish citizens. But as Professor Ilan Pappe and others have long argued, the attempt to maintain a liberal democratic regime within Israel alongside a repressive…
Home > All News Items and Articles With a minimum publicity, the government has been promoting “two sides-ism” in English schools and colleges. The programme, devised by a pro-Israel organisation, has been targeted at schools and colleges with a large Muslim student intake, but resistance to it is growing. The original report on this supposedly…
Home > All News Items and Articles As might have been expected, the UK government is flourishing funds to promote collaboration with Israel, and regrettably no fewer than 12 UK universities have agreed to take it. By their collaboration, they are becoming complicit in one of the greatest assault on human rights in modern times…
Home > All News Items and Articles Israel’s assault on Palestinian education system and the number of victims among its students and teachers almost defies description. The latest report of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs confirms that between 7 October and 26 December 352 schools in Gaza have been damaged, affecting…
South Africa’s submission to the International Court of Justice sets out in impressive detail the horrific consequences of Israel’s assault on Gaza – so far. Nearly half the 2.3 million residents of Gaza are children. Their plight and that of older students are described in paragraphs 44, 48-9, 52-4, 86, 88, 90, 92-3 of the…