30 December 2024 As Joseph Massad of Columbia University explains here, Israel from its very foundation sought to represent Jews everywhere, despite the obvious fact that it did not and never has represented them all. Israel successfully pushed this obviously antisemitic claim on US and European governments, but academics and students across the West are…
30 December 2024 News items on the BRICUP website are normally restricted to those of immediate interest to academics and professionals or items written by academics, but with the New Year almost upon us we have included this remarkable survey of events and possible scenarios during Donald Trump’s second term by David Hearst (published last…
30 December 2024 Ever since he obtained his doctorate in 1998, Joseph Massad has been a target of the Israel lobby inside and outside Columbia University. Earlier this year, the then president of Columbia, Minouche Shafik, sought to save her own skin by fabricating claims against Massad in testimony before a deeply prejudiced Congressional Committee….
18 December 2024 Despite the call from the International Court of Justice to all UN members to halt any support for Israel’s probable genocidal assault on Gaza, the EU continues its support of Israeli research much of which assists the country’s military, as this important Al Jazeera report confirms. EU research funds flow to Israel…
17 December 2024 The Arab Open University (AOU) and The Open University (OU) have announced the establishment of a hardship fund of £100,000 for Palestinian students from Gaza and Lebanon to support them in completing their studies with the AOU. The AOU and OU have established that 1,583 Palestinian students are studying with the AOU…
17 December 2024 What is one to make of the American medical establishment including its leading journals, which have remained stubbornly silent over the genocide unfolding before us all? Mondoweiss has published this excellent analysis including a compelling answer to the question. (Pictured is Dr Eric Rubin, editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine,…
17 December 2024 The BMJ has published this account of the appalling fate of Adnan Al-Bursh, a prominent surgeon who trained at King’s College Hospital London, after being taken prisoner by Israeli forces in Gaza. Al-Bursh is only one of many Palestinian medical personnel and healthcare workers who have been seized and tortured or killed…
13 December 2024 You couldn’t make it up! Sussex University decided to hold a conference on “Displacement, Forced Migration and Reparation” and invited the Hebrew University to collaborate with it. How could the organisers not know of the Hebrew University’s decades long complicity in ethnic cleansing: its special treatment for IDF soldiers, its links with…
3 December 2024 1300 Japanese researchers have expressed their horror at the ongoing genocide in Gaza and call on the Japanese Government and the International Community. In their words, “The attitude of the Netanyahu administration, continuing war and mass killings in defiance of international law, reminds us of the path taken by Japan in the…
3 December 2024 Benny Morris was once one of Israel’s “new historians” who, drawing upon archival evidence, exposed many of the myths employed to justify Israel’s foundation and expansion well beyond the UN partition line. He has since become a house historian, defending the Israeli record of ethnic cleansing and apartheid. Students at Leipzig University,…