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//THE ACADEMIC COMMITMENT FOR PALESTINE// It's essential that academics honour the Palestinian call to boycott Israeli institutions. Please -sign the letter -publicise on local union & academic mailing lists -add the commitment to your email signature …ccommitmentforpalestine.wordpress.com

Psychoanalysts are resigning from the International Psychoanalytical Association over its anti-Palestinian double standard mondoweiss.net/2026/03/psycho… #Palestine #Israel

Bisan Center for Research and Development, in partnership with Scientists for Palestine, is Honored to invite you to a lecture entitled "A conversation on Evil, Morality and Politics", presented by Prof. Raef Zreik, philosopher, writer and jurist, as part of Bisan Lecture Series 2025-2026. The lecture will take place on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, at PM Palestine time, via Zoom. To register, follow this link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

The paperback edition of “Human Shields” (with @nevegordon for @ucpress) is finally out, with a new preface and a new final chapter on Israel’s deployment of the human shields argument in Gaza (now spreading to Lebanon) as key justification for genocide. ucpress.edu/books/human-sh…

194 pages documenting killing of Palestinian professors &systematic destruction of universities in #Gaza. This doesn’t include the slain students & primary schools. Text book #scholasticide that should’ve shaken every uni to its core, but they brutalized their students instead.

A new archive of some of the Palestinian scholars in Gaza assassinated and killed by Israel rememberinggazascholars.org/the-scholars/?…

An archive commemorating the lives of Palestinian scholars killed in the genocide in Gaza. rememberinggazascholars.org

📚#Research by BRISMES Members | Edited by Dina Matar and Venetia Porter, Archiving #Gaza in the Present brings together voices from #Palestine and beyond to document the cultural erasure and to explore how creative and archival practices resist it. Learn more👇

A great line up of speakers looking at the impact of attacks on healthcare before and after the the so-called Gaza "ceasefire." You can join in person and online and please share, particularly with NHS staff. eventbrite.com/e/medicine-und…

Jürgen Habermas: Humanist except for the suffering of Palestine. Habermas championed Western rationality but ignored Palestinian suffering, exposing limits of his universalist principles, argues ​ ​​Professor Emad Abdel-Latif bricup.org.uk/news-2/a-plaus…

After Israel killed two Lebanese professors, there are growing concerns for civilian and academic protections Over 2,000 academics in Lebanon and around the world signed an online petition to UNESCO and the UN Secretary-General António Guterres. bricup.org.uk/news-2/israeli…

📚'Books not Bombs: Stop Labour's Militarisation of Higher Education!' 🕊️Thanks to @dED_ucation for hosting my latest piece on their website! 📚Read it here: ded1.co/what-we-do/blo… #DemilitariseEducation #BooksNotBombs #WelfareNotWarfare

Ilan Pappe explains why the British Museum must not yield to Zionist pressure bricup.org.uk/news-2/ilan-pa…

French universities ordered to abide by the “Palestine exception”. Paris-Saclay’s statement reprimanding its own ethics committee provides a prime example says Jonathan Rosenhead bricup.org.uk/news-2/french-…

Ireland’s UCD maintains links with Israeli universities and shows hostility to pro-Palestinian demonstrators bricup.org.uk/news-2/ireland…

Gaza’s universities should be a priority for assistance and reconstruction. Here’s why. bricup.org.uk/news-2/gazas-u…

Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza targeted public institutions and not least its libraries and archives bricup.org.uk/news-2/israels…

US federal government again seeks to criminalise slogans “Globalise the intifada” and “From the river to the sea” bricup.org.uk/news-2/us-fede…

"A laboratory of calculated cruelty" - UN expert @FranceskAlbs warns torture of Palestinians is state doctrine in #Israel. Regime of humiliation, pain & degradation has degenerated Israeli prisons into instruments of genocide & torture. @UN_HRC #HRC61 ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

The widely respected UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine, @FranceskAlbs has produced a new report, this time focusing on torture. Albanese has amassed c 300 testimonies and calls on the whole world to end this, not least in consideration of the lasting physical and psychological impact of ““Brutal beatings, sexual violence, rape, lethal mistreatment, starvation, and the systematic deprivation of the most basic human conditions” on both those who have been incarcerated and their families. Torture was used before October 7th but since then the system of incarceration, including over 3,000 without any charge “has descended into a regime of systemic and widespread humiliation, coercion, and terror”. jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/new-re…

ELSC is defending an antifascist activist’s right to commemorate at Holocaust memorial site Buchenwald, after she was banned and threatened with a criminal complaint by the memorial’s administration for wearing a Kufiya. The foundation argued in court that the Kufiya has been “associated with anti-Jewish and anti-Western positions since the time of the National Socialist dictatorship”, is “a symbol associated with the annihilation of Israel”, its presence would compromise the “dignity of the victims” commemorated at the site, and might provoke other visitors.  The foundation continued claiming that wearing the Palestinian symbol at the memorial site would constitute “instrumentalisation of commemoration for political purposes” and “a deliberate political statement against Israel”. The foundation explicitly argued that wearing the Israeli flag in contrast “does not constitute a political statement, but rather documents, at most, a personal attachment to a state whose existence is not up for debate.” The ban on Palestinian symbols at Buchenwald is not an isolated measure, but part of a systematic policy of repression.  In July 2025, the foundation published a handout that classified Palestinian symbols including the Kufiya as “hostile to Israel” and therefore as antisemitic. The document mentioned the watermelon as “a substitute for the Palestinian flag” and went as far as to describe the phrase “ceasefire now” as “one-sided demand at Israel’s expense”. It warned that even an olive branch symbol could express the connection of Palestinians to their land and can therefore be considered as “a denial of the right of Jewish people to live in Israel”. READ MORE: elsc.support/palestinian-sy…