8 June 2026 Most reports of the crisis in the Middle East leave the impression that it is a male affair while the Palestinian women remain essentially passive. The publication of “Everything We Thought Was Beautiful: Interviews with Radical Palestinian Women” late last year by PM Press offers a useful correction. Here is a review…
8 June 2026 Israel has deliberately destroyed Gaza’s libraries, universities and hospitals, killed in the hundreds its academics and medical specialists and practitioners, and cut its energy supplies making practically impossible programmes of remote learning. Yet through sheer determination, Gaza has trained a new cohort of medical doctors, and no doubt to the same high…
6 June 2026 As this Guardian article reports, a University of Chicago professor has been suspended merely for mentioning the word ‘Palestine’ in an assignment. A University of Chicago professor has been suspended merely for mentioning the word ‘Palestine’ in an assignment. ‘We call it the P-word’: Chicago professor suspended after assignment mentions Palestinians School…
3 June 2026 Aneeza Pervez of Clare Hall, Cambridge, has written an important article on the present crisis, implicating UK universities in the continuing genocide in Gaza. Below is a link to Pervez’s recent lecture, followed by her article. The original article can be found on Taylor and Francis online. Witnessing silence: the Palestinian genocide,…
2 June 2026 Book now to watch the lecture or go online to the British International Studies Association to watch it later. Public lecture: Gaza as an epicentre – the breakdown of the international order This event will be in Brighton, UK 2 June 2026 Opening the #BISA2026 conference, this lecture will attempt to provide…
2 June 2026 The Balfour Declaration, issued by the British government in 1917, promised Jews a “homeland” in Palestine. For such an illegitimate and unprincipled promise, which involved handing over the Palestinians’ land to Jewish colonisers from Europe, Britain continues to pay a high price. As the following article from the Morning Star describes, Britain’s…
2 June 2026 Do academic Zionist zealots know what they are doing? As this article from the Forward explains, Zionist members of the UCLA faculty are corroborating claims that students who set up a pro-Palestine encampment on campus in 2024 were engaging in antisemitic violence, which the University administration was slow to suppress. And they…
1 June 2026 Hassan Abo Qamar, the author of the article from Palestine Deep Dive below, hoped to study in Europe and earned the grades that would normally have enabled him to do so. But, as he explains, Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza made this practically impossible. Along with the destruction of Gaza’s health system,…
22 May 2026 The European Legal Support Centre (ELSC) and the Public Interest Law Centre (PILC) have jointly submitted a complaint to the Bar Standards Board (BSB) concerning the UKLFI’s regular reference to leading barristers (KCs) in their attempts to intimidate individuals and groups when they criticise Israel for its appalling mistreatment of Palestinians. Here…
22 May 2026 Tech for Palestine, which will be holding its first conference in Brussels next month, welcomes support from tech specialists, investors and others. Here is a powerful explanatory message from Paul Biggar, founder of Tech for Palestine, and below that is a description of what Biggar created Tech for Palestine to do. I…