Home > All News Items and Articles Hamid Dabashi, the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in the City of New York, has launched a furious attack on Western philosophy in reaction to Jurgen Habermas’ endorsement of the German government’s policy of backing Israel even in the middle of…
At the Open University, the OU for Ceasefire in Gaza Group held its first webinar as follows:The Israel-Palestine issue comes to the Open University: How to facilitate free debate?The talks included a decolonial discourse analysis of the OU’s public statement, which reproduced the dominant US-UK-Israeli narrative.See recording here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiAdIqGWN4c Its second webinar will be held…
Home > All News Items and Articles A motion calling for the endorsement of Standing Together, the latest in a long line of Israeli initiatives intended to divert attention from the murderous oppression and land seizure in Palestine, came before the Leeds University UCU branch last evening. It was soundly rejected. In the decisive vote,…
Home > All News Items and Articles Israel’s “Hasbara Handbook” providing students with the rhetorical weapons to defend the country against accusations of racism, aggression and oppression must be one of the most successful ebooks of modern times, since its arguments and techniques of debate can be heard every day throughout the Western world. Indeed,…
Home > All News Items and Articles No issue is more misreported in the British media than the Israel-Palestine conflict. In this article, James Dickins, Professor Emeritus of Arabic at the University of Leeds, reflects on an incident in 2020, in which he was subject to misreporting, and the wider context. All the information given…
Home > All News Items and Articles The recent report by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, setting out the latest statistics on the physical and human destruction of Gaza higher education since 7 October, leaves little if any doubt that Israel is seeking totally to eliminate this vital sector of Palestinian life. As the Monitor indicates,…
Home > All News Items and Articles Breaking the near silence of the UK mainstream media on Israel’s remorseless assault on Gaza’s higher education, the Times Higher Education summarises developments as reported by the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor (published elsewhere on the BRICUP website). The original THE article can be found here. Academia in Gaza…
American university administrators continue to grapple with the conflict between student and faculty political activism and critics who allege intimidation, bullying and antisemitism. Unfortunately, the critics almost always win, and this report in The Forward acknowledges. Colleges rewrite free speech policies and limit protests as spring semester unfolds Some new policies would prohibit the posting of…
The Federal University of Ceara in Brazil has cancelled its partnership with Ben Gurion University. BGU has close ties with the Israeli military and arms firms supplying the military. And as the Palestinian Boycott Campaign points out, “Holding an “innovation challenge” with complicit Israeli institutions on topics such as food security and water and sanitation,…
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) points to the complicity of Israeli universities in the current military assault on Gaza and appeals for their boycott in order to bring home to their faculty, administrators and students their responsibility for the unfolding genocide in Gaza. The original appeal can be…