14 October 2024. In Feb. 2024, in a landmark decision, an employment tribunal ruled that Prof David Miller was unfairly dismissed, and that his “anti-Zionist beliefs qualified as a philosophical belief and as a protected characteristic pursuant to section 10 Equality Act 2010”. In its report, just published, the tribunal has concluded that he belief…
14 October 2024 Leeds University administration has now embarrassed itself three times over Israel/Palestine. First, it took back as Leeds University Chaplain, Zecharia Deutsch, who enrolled in the IDF and made statements endorsing Israel’s “plausible case of genocide” (International Court of Justice) in Gaza. Second, it has stripped James Dickins of his Emeritus Professor privileges,…
Home > All News Items and Articles 10 October 2024 The US organisation Faculty for Justice in Palestine explain in their statement attached why they intend to shut down the Israel-sponsored Study Abroad programmes, which have been instituted at many American universities. For the same reasons, action should also be taken to identify similar programmes in the UK and…
Home > All News Items and Articles 6 October 2024 This report by Gina Romero (pictured), UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association describes the experience of campus demonstrators over the past year and the frequently arbitrary and repressive actions of university managers, and sets out guidelines for appropriate behaviour by both…
Home > All News Items and Articles 6 October 2024 This report by Gina Romero (pictured), UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association describes the experience of campus demonstrators over the past year and the frequently arbitrary and repressive actions of university managers, and sets out guidelines for appropriate behaviour by both…
Home > All News Items and Articles 6 October 2024 In what may be a new low in UK university repression, Sheffield University’s managers have decided that a purely internal discussion of the Gaza crisis organised by faculty lecturers and researchers cannot go ahead because it is linked to a “controversial event or topic”. As the saying…
Home > All News Items and Articles 3 October 2024 The Middle East Eye (MEE) has published a useful balance-sheet of student activism over the past academic year. Many university managers have resorted to repression and reports abound of intensified repression in the 2024-5 academic year. But despite the hostile climate created by politicians, pro-Israel propagandists and…
Home > All News Items and Articles 3 October 2024 The US Department of Education’s ironically named Office for Civil Rights (OCR) insists that its investigations of universities and colleges accused of creating unsafe spaces for pro-Zionist Jewish students do not infringe faculty rights to academic freedom or their First Amendment right to free speech. But the…
Home > All News Items and Articles 30 September 2024 Maura Finkelstein (pictured) is the first tenured professor in the United States to be fired for criticising Israel in her social media posts, according to this highly revealing report in The Intercept. What is not new is the massive and sustained campaign to have her fired by the…
30 September 2024 Earlier this summer the Committee on Academic Freedom of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) protested the decision of the Court of St Andrews University to suspend Stella Maris from her elected positions as Rector and trustee of the University. The reply from the Court is reprinted below, along with…
