24 March 2026 Israel wanted to destroy all of Gaza’s universities. Gazans were determined to keep them open. As this account by Hassan Abo Qamar in the electronic intifada describes, they have stayed open. But their sorry condition and the importance of sustaining Palestinian make it imperative that they should be assisted to recover. Rebuilding…
24 March 2026 Their society devastated by the Nakba in 1948, Palestinians have placed a high value on their cultural assets including schools, universities, libraries and archives, and Israel has targeted them all in its attempt to obliterate Palestinian society. This became grimly evident in Israel’s assault on Gaza after 7 October 2026, as Eman…
24 March 2026 The US Department of Justice is suing Harvard University for permitting students to repeat these slogans which could be interpreted in a certain way and might cause offense to some Jewish students and would therefore be cause for complaint. Harvard seems likely to win its case, but as this article in The…
As this report in +972 explains, governments across the Arab world have severely suppressed all expressions of support for Palestinians since October 2023, yet they have allowed all 14 episodes of the television series “Sohab Al-Ard” to be shown, providing viewers with a deeply moving dramatisation of the horrors that Gaza residents have endured over…
19 March 2026 In an open letter, nearly 150 Jewish faculty and staff at UCLA vigorously dispute the government’s claim that their campus has suffered from systemic antisemitism. Sadly, Zionist conflation of antisemitism and anti-Zionism or merely criticism of Israel’s policy towards Gaza and the OPT is still extremely common across the United States, and…
19 March 2026 Sabri Jiryis’s pioneering study of the foundations of Zionism is now available in English, thanks to his daughter, Fida Jiryis (pictured), who translated it from the Arabic. Fida’s own memoirs, recently published, also deserve a wide readership. Here is Nora Barrows-Friedman’s article about the books in the electronic intifada. The foundations of…
17 March 2026 Dear Professor Phoenix and members of the Vice Chancellor’s Executive, We are writing on behalf of the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine to express our profound concern about your university’s response to a letter from the UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) regarding the use of the term ‘ancient Palestine.’ Based…
12 March 2026 From benign neglect in the 1950s, Israel began actively to interfere in Palestinian education in the 1960s, limiting access to suitable textbooks for schools and scientific materials for colleges and universities, arresting students and teachers, erecting checkpoints, shutting down institutions for shorter or longer periods, and in Gaza deliberately destroying the whole…
9 March 2026 The APA, which describes itself as “the leading scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States, with more than 190,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants, and students as its members,” has not only removed the most objectionable clauses from the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which made it a weapon against criticism…
6 March 2026 Nicola Perugini (pictured) and Shaira Vadasaria have written a remarkable article on the University of Edinburgh’s complicity in the nightmare that Palestinians have suffered since the promulgation of the Balfour declaration, issued while Arthur Balfour was Chancellor of the University. The article merits the attention of all BRICUP supporters, but it begs…