22 April 2025 Some UK universities have divested from Israel – no doubt concerned with reputational damage – but despite the sustained efforts of PSC, JVL, BRICUP and other organisations to highlight Israel’s appalling policies of illegal land seizures, ethnic cleansing, bribery and genocide, most UK universities have done practically nothing to distance themselves from…
As the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports, in the latest assault on Palestinian rights by the American government, Trump has frozen over $2 billion to Harvard University after it refused to suppress pro-Palestine actions by staff and students. 21 April 2025 Trump Freezes Over $2b in Funding to Harvard After It Refuses to Accept Reform Demands…
As reported by Middle East Eye, Goldsmiths, University of London has apologised unreservedly to lecturer, Ray Campbell, after it pursed false ‘antisemitism’ allegations against him made by pro-Israel groups. Campbell commented to Middle East Eye, “When I saw the accusations against me, the first instinct was to laugh. The evidence was so shoddy. If my…
As Middle East Eye reports, the University of Essex has abandoned its ludicrous attempt to expel six students after they shared posts from the respected news outlets Middle East Eye and Al Jazeera discussing the death of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. The decision followed and intervention by the Gina Romero, UN Special Rapporteur on the…
18 April 2025 Trump’s weaponisation of antisemitism is a cynical abuse of a legitimate concern that benefits no one and nothing, as this Haaretz article explains 17 April 2025 Combating Antisemitism? Trump’s War on Universities Will Only Make Jews Less Safe It is becoming increasingly clear that the White House’s effort to reshape higher education…
13 April 2025 The Physicians for Human Rights Israel report of Feb. 26, 2025 details how Israel is targeting Gaza’s aid workers – both in Gaza, where hospitals are systematically bombed, and in Israel, where Gaza’s doctors, nurses and paramedics are subject to a regime of abuse and torture. Torture of Medical Workers in Israel…
11 April 2025 Aviva Chomsky is Professor of History at Salem State University in Massachusetts. Her brilliant critique of Trump’s policies, which mirror 17th century British colonial policy towards its West Indian colonies, is reprinted from TomDispatch. Posted on April 10, 2025 Trump Faces Palestine The Colonial View of the World Never Dies By Aviva Chomsky In…
11 April 2025 The Institut d’Etudes Politiques (IEP) in Strasbourg is one of a network of prestigious degree-giving colleges funded and controlled by the national Ministry of Higher Education. Its students and faculty have expressed overwhelming opposition to continuing its partnership with the Reichman University in Israel on account of Israel’s gross human rights violations…
11 April 2025 The following letter describes just the sort of influence-peddling that academics and professionals must call out or resist. 9 April 2025 Hi all, I am a psychiatrist in training from the Netherlands, Amsterdam. We went to the EPA (European Psychiatric Association) conference in Madrid, where I found out TEVA [the Israeli pharmaceutical…
10 April 2025 This article in The Forward by Paul Nahme, Professor of Jewish Studies at Brown University in Rhode Island [pictured], expresses a widely shared criticism of President Trump’s charges of antisemitism against American universities: they are shutting down intellectual life on campus and exposing Jewish faculty and students to charges that they are…