This website is normally restricted to aspects of the struggle for justice in Palestine involving universities and academics in the UK, Palestine and elsewhere. But the history of Israel’s decades-long use of food insecurity as a weapon against the Palestine is so important and so little understood that we are publishing below an excellent account…
14 May 2025 The Financial Times has published a letter from Oxford academics from a wide range of disciplines expressing their solidarity with Harvard colleagues whose institution is seeking to resist the interference of the Trump administration in its admissions procedures, teaching and research. 12 May 2025 Letter: Trump attack on academic freedom ‘must be…
2 May 2025 The following statement published in Academe Blog by three Jewish American academics (Professors Meyerhoff and Schneider pictured) sets out in clear, unambiguous language the unchallengeable truth that what public authorities and the mainstream media endlessly label antisemitism in their references to student and faculty campaigning for peace and justice in Israel/Palestine is…
The Herald, 2 May 2025, by Gabriel McKay
30 April 2025 Among other research universities, Northwestern has been a target of Trump’s financial assault. Now, in a remarkable display of solidarity, the University’s faculty assembly has voted overwhelmingly to support a motion drafted by the local AAUP setting out the action to be taken against the Administration’s attempt to undermine independent thinking and…
Here is a list of the books removed earlier this month from the shelves of the Nimitz Library at the US Naval Academy in Maryland. The list is helpfully provided by the Department of Defense. Among the 381 dangerous books removed are the following: 316 Kate Normington, Gender and medieval drama (2004). Contents described as:…
’26 April 2025 The American administration’s moves to deport students who advocate an end to genocide in Gaza has overshadowed the similar anti-democratic behaviour of several European governments, as this article by Jodie Jones in Mondoweiss describes. How European governments are using deportation to disrupt and criminalize Palestine solidarity It is not just pro-Palestinian students…
25 April 2025 For years, Zionists have pressured governments, universities and other public bodies to adopt the IHRA definition together with its eleven “illustrations” which equate criticism of Israel with antisemitism. Now American academics are pushing back, as Joel Beinin (pictured) explains in this article for the Middle East Eye. Why I violated the IHRA…
25 April 2025 Young Palestinians are the best educated cohort in the whole of the Arab world, a fact that has long disturbed Israeli officials. It is therefore not surprising that Israel has gone out of its way to destroy the whole infrastructure of education in Gaza At least one-third of Gaza’s population are children…
23 April 2025 This excellent article by Tariq Kenney-Shawa for Al-Shabaka on the promotion of Project Esther to undermine pro-Palestine advocacy and defend the crumbling Zionist narrative refers to the US alone. But if history is any guide, we can expect that it, or basic components of it, will soon be introduced here in the…