12 August 2026 Unsurprisingly, in the new British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) report, the assaults on academic freedom to speak up about Palestine loom large. Download the report Press Release | New BRISMES report warns of growing threats to academic freedom in the UK, Europe and the Middle East First annual report documents…
7 August 2026 Raz Segal (pictured) was offered the directorship of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota in 2023, but when Israel launched its genocidal assault on Gaza and Segal named it a genocide, Zionists pressured the University management to reverse its offer and it caved to the pressure….
2 August 2026 This report in +972 describes in precise detail TAU’s implication in the Israeli war machine. ‘Full cooperation’: How Tel Aviv University serves Israel’s security state From Shin Bet recruitment to military training programs, Israel’s defense establishment is becoming increasingly embedded in academic life. By Meron Rapoport and Aharon Porath July 30, 2026 After Hila Ben David…
2 August 2026 Neve Gordon, an Israeli Professor of Law at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) explains in this article in Zeteo UK how Zionists seek to delegitimise expressions of support for the Palestine struggle for justice. Why criminalising the phrase ‘Globalise the Intifada’ is dangerous Neve Gordon, an Israeli professor of international law,…
2 August 2026 It was so predictable. Eight months ago, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg announced its intention to mount a modest exhibit on the Nakba of 1948 when some 750,000 Palestinians were forced to flee their homes, villages, workshops and farms in Palestine by armed Zionist para-militaries who became the IDF…
2 August 2026 Taqwa Ahmed Alwawi in Palestine Deep Dive describes how foreign academics have helped students – and academics – in Gaza to endure Israel’s continuing genocidal onslaught. Surely more can, and should, be done on these lines? The Courses That Became Lifelines in Gaza While bombs fell and Gaza was cut off from…
2 August 2026 Lord Mann, the former right-wing Labour MP, friend of Israel and the government’s so-called independent advisor on antisemitism, recently claimed that in a survey of 56 UK universities “not one knew of or could provide a single example in which the IHRA definition had in any ways restricted freedom of speech or…
The abject surrender of the University of Massachusetts Amherst to pressure from Washington and the Zionist lobby illustrates just how far the campaign has gone to silence any discussion of Israeli aggression against Palestinians and others in American universities. The cost of this suppression, to individual teachers, students, university reputations and national understanding of US…
27 July 2026 Please consider signing this petition in support of medievalist, Julien Théry, who has been sacked by University Lumière Lyon 2 for supporting Palestine: https://framaforms.org/julien-thery-must-be-allowed-to-work-and-teach-again-revoke-his-punishment-supporting-palestine-is. For more details, see below. Julien Théry must be allowed to work and teach again! Revoke his punishment: supporting Palestine is not a crime! Julien Théry must be…
27 July 2026 Across mainland Europe, as in Britain and America, Palestine solidarity in universities is under assault. But Palestine rights supporters are fighting back – with increasing success, as this story from France shows. France court overturns decision to ban academic conference on Palestine The decision to cancel the Palestine conference sparked debate over…
