19 June 2026 Practically every major university campus in the US, Canada and the UK has a Hillel, which is generally assumed to be simply a social centre for Jewish students. Think again. As this revelatory report by Maura Finkelstein (pictured) in Mondoweiss explains, Hillel International, the organisation that manages the individual centres, functions as…
18 June 2026 The American Administration continues to defend Israel against criticism at the cost of free speech. The American Psychological Association is only the latest victim. Pro-Israel Jewish News online reports this as a good thing. Antisemitism allegations at American Psychological Association The investigation stems from several complaints by Jewish and Israeli psychologists By Andrew…
18 June 2026 The American Historical Association appears to have been the worst, but evidently they have nearly all been doing it, as Daniel Segal (pictured) explains in Academe Blog. Academic Freedom and Democratic Governance for Learned Societies Too Guest Blogger / 7 hours ago BY DANIEL A. SEGAL We—meaning both faculty and the AAUP—know that when…
18 June 2026 This is a good idea in principle and should favour all those who have attempted to speak up for Palestine only to find that their invitation to a university had been delayed indefinitely or cancelled. But, as with all these things, the devil will be in the detail – which may very…
16 June 2026 Arwa Hanin Elrayess, daughter of an Algerian mother and Palestinian father, who was born in London but lived in Gaza from the age of five, is in her final year of PPE (Politics, Philosophy and Economics) at St. Edmund Hall and the current president of the Oxford Union. As could have been…
10 June 2026 Even as official repression of pro-Palestine, anti-genocide action ramps up, university students and staff in Germany, as across Europe, are expressing their support for Palestinian human rights. ‘Historic’ wave of Palestinian solidarity grows at universities in Germany Calls for universities to cut ties with Israeli institutions are rising in the country that…
10 June 2026 Across Europe, as in America and Britain, universities are attempting to redefine free speech against genocide and in support of Palestinian rights as ‘antisemitism’. Copenhagen University is the latest example. The University of Copenhagen is complicit in Israel’s genocide in Gaza and is now trying to criminalize those who protest it I…
8 June 2026 Most reports of the crisis in the Middle East leave the impression that it is a male affair while the Palestinian women remain essentially passive. The publication of “Everything We Thought Was Beautiful: Interviews with Radical Palestinian Women” late last year by PM Press offers a useful correction. Here is a review…
8 June 2026 Israel has deliberately destroyed Gaza’s libraries, universities and hospitals, killed in the hundreds its academics and medical specialists and practitioners, and cut its energy supplies making practically impossible programmes of remote learning. Yet through sheer determination, Gaza has trained a new cohort of medical doctors, and no doubt to the same high…
6 June 2026 As this Guardian article reports, a University of Chicago professor has been suspended merely for mentioning the word ‘Palestine’ in an assignment. A University of Chicago professor has been suspended merely for mentioning the word ‘Palestine’ in an assignment. ‘We call it the P-word’: Chicago professor suspended after assignment mentions Palestinians School…
