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…
Home > All News Items and Articles Predictably, Palestinian students in Israeli universities are being regularly censured and punished for expressing their views on social media. Equally predictably, Jewish students in Israeli universities are not. It has often been claimed that the universities in Israel are islands of liberalism in a sea of increasing illiberalism….
Home > All News Items and Articles According to a report from the Ministry of Education in Ramallah, 4,119 students have been killed in Gaza and 37 in the Occupied Palestinian Territories since 7 October 2023. In addition, 221 teachers and administrators have been killed. 381 schools have been bombed and vandalised, and the few…
Sarah Roy, a Harvard political scientist and an authority on Palestine, presents a personal account of how Israel has punished Gaza year after year for over half a century, turning it from a functioning economy to an impovershed and dysfunctional one. The original account can be found here. The Long War on Gaza POSTED ON DECEMBER…
Home > All News Items and Articles The Congressional hearings on 5 December on higher education attracted worldwide interest when the presidents of three elite universities faced aggressive questioning on their handling of supposedly antisemitic demonstrations on campus. Two of the presidents, of the Universities of Pennsylvania and Harvard, subsequently resigned. This has generated more…
Home > All News Items and Articles As late as 2023, secular Jews in pre-1967 Israel were seeking to defend the liberal democratic character of their country – for its Jewish citizens. But as Professor Ilan Pappe and others have long argued, the attempt to maintain a liberal democratic regime within Israel alongside a repressive…
Home > All News Items and Articles With a minimum publicity, the government has been promoting “two sides-ism” in English schools and colleges. The programme, devised by a pro-Israel organisation, has been targeted at schools and colleges with a large Muslim student intake, but resistance to it is growing. The original report on this supposedly…