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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…

1 May 2026 John Swinney, the First Minister (pictured), has committed the SNP to a range of measures in support of Palestinians, if re-elected on 7 May. Here’s the report in The National. EXCLUSIVE SNP pledge Scottish scholarship scheme for Gaza students if re-elected 27th April By Xander Elliards Political Editor THE SNP will set up a…

30 April 2026 Here is the Liberty Investigates report on those pathetic university administrations that devoted scarce resources to employ a firm that spied on their own students. Where were the administrations that affirmed their respect for the same students whose aim was chiefly to publicise the appalling genocide taking place in Gaza? British universities…

25 April 2026 The treatment of the genocide in Gaza by the BBC, the Guardian and other components of the British mainstream media has been carefully analysed. Now at last Adam Johnson (pictured) has published a comparably rigorous analysis of the US mainstream media’s treatment of this outrage: he summarises his findings in Mondoweiss this…

23 April 2026 Professor Shirin Saiedi, an Iranian-American professor of political science and director of the King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Arkansas, became the target of hostility for Zionists and their political agents when she expressed criticism of Israel. Despite her tenure, her First Amendment rights and a unanimous…

21 April 2026 A dozen or more British universities paid upwards of half a million pounds to a private firm to report on students and visiting speakers who might pose “potential security risks to their community” by advocating for Palestinian rights, Al Jazeera English and Liberty Investigates have found. This is deeply disturbing, and above…

15 April 2026 Reprinted below is the report by Jewish Voice for Liberation on the arrest of Professor Jonathan Rosenhead, Vice-Chair of BRICUP and Executive member of JVL, at the Lift the Ban protest last Saturday, 11 April 2026. A threat to the right to protest affects us all Tue 14 Apr 2026 Jewish Bloc…

20 April 2026 Victoria Brittain writes in the Middle East Eye of the unconscionably large number of Palestinians incarcerated by Israel since 1948 and the increasingly brutal and inhumane treatment of Palestinian women and girls since October 2023. Reports of mistreatment of Palestinian men and boys in Israeli prisons tell the same story. ‘All changed…