21 May 2026 As the report below from the Middle East Monitor, now over six months old, confirms, Israeli universities were aware that the European academic boycott of Israel was already a major problem by 2025 and continued to grow despite the so-called ceasefire that autumn. Recent developments indicate that the boycott has been accelerating,…
20 May 2026 In order to establish the Jewish claim to Palestinian land, Israelis have not only undertaken their own archaeological research. They have also halted work by Palestinian archaeologists and appropriated their sites. The American Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) has strongly protested this grotesque abuse of science. Protesting Israeli Control…
19 May 2026 This thoughtful essay by Frederic Schneider, published in Mondoweiss, explains the dangerous consequences of Germany’s decades-long attempt to prove it is no longer antisemitic. How Gaza is exposing Germany’s ‘never again’ myth Germany’s unconditional support for Israel has been an easy way to avoid examining our brutal past. The colossal weight of…
The campaign to silence pro-Palestine voices in US universities continues unabated. Here, the Middle East Studies Association of America intervenes in defence of the CEO of biotech company Arcellx, Rami Elghandour, whose graduation address was cancelled by Rutgers University because his pro-Palestine views, as previously reported by BRICUP. 13 May 2026 Cancellation of Rami Elghandour’s…
11 May 2026 Here at last is a an accurate and constantly updated record of efforts – alas many of them successful – to silence the Palestine voice during the genocide in Gaza and the West Bank. The MESA Academic Freedom Initiative tracks and analyzes threats to academic freedom on North American higher education campuses since October 7, 2023….
8 May 2026 Shamai Leibowitz (pictured), a Jewish Israeli-American, explains the dismal failure of leadership at the University: a disturbing evaluation that could be applied to hundreds of other universities in Europe and Canada as well as the United States. Michigan Prof’s Only Offense: Humanizing Palestinians Shamai Leibowitz05/06/2026 Silver Springs, Md. (Special to Informed Comment;…
8 May 2026 Rutgers University in New Jersey was established before the American revolution, has nearly 70,000 students on three campuses and ranks high among public American universities. Yet it is evidently too insecure to tolerate a forthright affirmation of the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza by a graduate of its engineering faculty who was…
8 May 2026 In his commencement address, Derek Peterson (pictured) attempted an even-handed approach to the University’s record of courageous social action by describing its (relatively) early acceptance of Jews on the faculty before briefly mentioning the students on campus who highlighted the genocide in Gaza. The Zionists weren’t having it. They pressured the University…
8 May 2026 The London-based Friends of Palestinian Universities (FPU) and UCU are jointly sponsoring an important and timely webinar on education in the West Bank and Gaza on Thursday 19 May. Here is their notice. Friends of Palestinian Universities and UCU presents EDUCATION, OCCUPATION & LIBERATION Wellbeing, Survival, and Resistance under Scholasticide You are invited…
5 May 2026 In the United States, attacks on the academic freedom of Palestinian rights supporters grow ever more extreme. Following the removal by the University of Washington of Aria Fani, holder of the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Professorship in Persian and Iranian Studies, the US-based Committee on Academic Freedom has sent the following letter to…
