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29 July 2025 A report remarkable for its historical perspective on the deepseated character of racism at Edinburgh University is encouraging its administrators to think again about policies which have long favoured Israel to the disadvantage of Palestinians. Here is the Guardian‘s report on this hopeful development. Edinburgh University could unadopt antisemitism definition after report…

29 July 2025 At least 400 scholars have joined the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network, calling for government action to end the appalling crisis in Gaza. Here is their appeal published today in the Guardian. As scholars of genocide, we demand an end to Israel’s atrocities Taner Akçam, Marianne Hirsch and Michael Rothberg Within…

29 July 2025 Columbia University has signed a new agreement with the Administration which restores access to federal research funding while making large, ill-defined concessions. The following survey of opinion among Columbia faculty in the Columbia Spectator reveals some of the largest costs including not least the University’s adoption of the IHRA definition on antisemitism….

1 July 2025 The International Sociological Association has suspended the Israeli Sociological Society (ISS) from membership. This follows pressure from the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), the Moroccan Sociological Association and many other organisations in the run up to the Fifth World Forum of Sociology, scheduled at Mohammed V…

30 June 2025 It has taken 21 months of continuous genocidal onslaught on the Palestinians of Gaza, but at last some university administrators now recognise that if any shred of ethnical standing is to be saved they must speak up against this outrage being carried out with their connivence. Urgent appeal to the leaders of…

24 June 2025 A broad coalition of European academic groups including BRICUP has petitioned Brussels to suspend the EU association agreement immediately. Here is the petition with the first 4499 signatures. Petition: Stop European Funding for Israeli Institutions, Stop Complicity in Occupation, Apartheid and Genocide To Ms. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European…

23 June 2025 Early this year the PSC-Stop the War coalition responsible for the great monthly marches for Palestine in London requested permission to march to – or past – the BBC headquarters on Upper Regent Street. The police, no doubt on the advice of the Home Secretary (pictured), absolutely refused to grant it. And…

20 June 2025 It could have been expected. Israel’s murderous ethnic cleansing of Palestinians was bound to attract comment from health professionals, so Israeli agents began to discourage Western medical journals from reporting the consequences for their principal victims, the people of Palestine. Pro-Israel attacks on medical journals started in the 1980s after World Medicine…

19 June 2025 The Oxford Union has been holding debates on the most urgent issues of the day for over 200 years and until now it has never been censured. But a speech by the best-selling Palestinian-American author Susan Abulhawa last November has so angered members of the Union’s shadowy board of trustees that they…

18 June 2025 Avi Shlaim is a distinguished historian of the Middle East, an Emeritus Professor of International Relations at Oxford University and an Israeli by birth who once served in the IDF. No one could be better qualified to evaluate the place of Hamas in the current crisis and the importance of keeping open…