4 November 2025 Susan Abulhawa, the best-selling novelist, gave a powerful speech in November last year at the Oxford Union, after which the Union voted overwhelmingly to support the motion that “Israel is an apartheid state responsible for genocide”. The Union then briefly posted a video of her speech before abruptly taking it down. The…
3 November 2025 The recent rise of extreme right-wing populist parties in Europe and the Americas is due to the convergence of several factors, including opposition to increasing immigration of different ethnic, racial and religious peoples, the decline in political vitality on account of the globalised economy and rapidly increasing inequality of wealth and income….
31 October 2025 Sabri Jiryis’ masterful history of the Zionist movement, which for years was available only in Arabic, has now been published in English translation. As he explains in this interview for Mondoweiss, the record of injustice inflicted upon the Palestinians, and not least those in Israel, is essential for a final reckoning. Palestinian…
30 October 2025 The accelerating scale of the academic boycott is no doubt due mainly to the appalling two-year long genocide in Gaza, but activists have contributed to it by channelling the mounting public outrage into this form of pressure which, as Haaretz reports, is becoming increasingly effective. Number of Cases of Academic Boycott Against…
28 October 2025 If ever Palestine’s collective spirit and national resistance were sustained by education, it is now. Friends of Palestine Universities (formerly Fobzu) publishes this enspiriting picture of the new academic year at one of the Gaza universities. Gaza Universities Reopen Admissions for Tawjihi Students After Two Years Oct 28, 2025 | After two years…
28 October 2025 Ahmed Kamal Junina, an assistant professor of applied linguistics at Al-Aqsa University, vividly describes in this article in the Independent just what it means to teach amidst the scholasticide and the horrendous punishment Israel has inflicted upon the Gaza community. Back to school in Gaza is now education reduced to fragments University…
28 October 2025 Four prominent scholars, Chandni Desai of the University of Toronto, Sundos Hammad of Birzeit University, Ahmed Abu Shaban of Al-Ahar University, and Abdul Razzaq of Rice University, have published an important article in Curriculum Inquiry on the meaning of scholasticide, how Israel has applied it against the Palestine people in Gaza, the…
23 September 2025 Two Turkish scholars apply Gramscian theory to explain the intensified repression of free speech and academic freedom since October 2023 in this article from Informed Comment. Academic Freedom Under Siege: Right Wing Repression and Principled Resistance By Mehmet Rakipoğlu and İbrahim Özcoşar, published 21.10.2025 Exeter, UK and Mardin, Türkiye (Special to Informed…
19 October 2025 Yohai Hakak of Academic-BDS publishes the following statement from Hebrew University administrators and the brief response from Metanya Ben-Artzi, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics as an illustration of why we should continue to boycott Israeli universities. The point is well made. “Dear colleagues, in case you remain indecisive about the academic boycott of…
17 October 2025 Even now, more than twenty years since Palestine civil society first called for the academic boycott of Israeli universities, prominent societies in the UK misunderstand the boycott call, imagining that it aims at individual Israeli academics, and clinging to the belief that Israeli universities are islands of liberal thought. (It doesn’t and…