In a reasoned survey of the muddle served up to the British public as reportage on Gaza, Professor Jonathan Rosenhead outlines the mendacity of Western media and the complicity of Western leaders in the ‘atrocity crimes’ that Israel has been daily committing ever since 8 October. The original posted on the Jewish Voice for Labour…
In what may be the most grotesquely contradictory policy in modern Europe, Germany blindly supports Israel, possibly the most racist country in the world, in order to establish its own credentials as a non-racial state. This has led to steadily more repression of Palestinian sympathisers on German campuses, notwithstanding the guarantee of free speech in…
The struggle to silence the Palestinian story in countries claiming to uphold free speech has produced endless contradictions, but none more glaring than the effort in Germany to withhold the 2023 Hannah Arendt prize from Masha Gessen. Arendt was a German-American intellectual and critic of Israel. Gessen is a Russian-American intellectual and critic of Israel….
Home > All News Items and Articles On 2 November 1917 the British foreign secretary Arthur Balfour wrote to Lionel, 2nd baron Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation, promising to support the establishment of a Jewish “national home” – commonly understood to mean “state” – in Palestine,…
Home > All News Items and Articles British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP) Palestine: Memory, Identity, Resistance BRICUP Seminar Series 2023-4 All seminars are on-line events, and take place at 18.00-19.30 London time. They consist of a presentation by the guest lecturer, an exchange with a discussant, and then questions and contributions. All…
Campus Voices for Palestine a UK-wide campaign to resist the suppression of Palestine advocacy and any interference with academic freedom in Middle Eastern research ‘Palestine – will not be silenced or erased!’ Dr. Husam Zomlot, Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, delivered a spirited defence of Palestine advocacy in British Higher Education at the launch meeting…
Home > All News Items and Articles Academic Freedom, Free Speech and Palestine Solidarity Campus Voices for Palestine a UK-wide campaign to resist the suppression of Palestine advocacy and any interference with academic freedom in Middle Eastern research ‘Palestine will not be silenced or erased!’ The campaign was launched at the end of January with…
Home > All News Items and Articles Israel and its Western mouthpieces have persuaded ill-informed audiences to believe that the trouble in Gaza began on 7 October 2023 when Hamas militants invaded Israeli territory, killing some Israeli settlers and capturing others. According to this narrative, Israel since then has merely been “retaliating” against the Palestinian…
Home > All News Items and Articles Hillel, the Jewish student organisation with branches on campuses across the United States and Canada, has long made anti-Zionist, non-Zionist and Zionist-sceptical Jewish students unwelcome inside its doors. It is all the more noteworthy therefore when a (retired) senior Hillel officer calls on Jewish alumni, donors, students and…
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…