EUROPEAN DECLARATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION
No academia as usual during Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide in Palestine
No academia as usual during Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide in Palestine
The entire system has always defended Jewish Israelis suspected of murdering Palestinians or Arab Israelis
A group of 34 students in Gaza with places at British universities have been evacuated and are due to arrive in the UK within days.
Report from independent conflict tracker Acled indicates one of the highest civilian death rates since start of war
Mariam, Nasser and Ahmed were evacuated from the warzone but are now stranded in an Egyptian hospital that cannot treat their life-threatening injuries after Trump’s sudden ban on Palestinians entering the US
GENEVA — UN experts* today warned of the severe economic emergency and catastrophic harm to human rights stemming from Israel’s attacks on the Gaza strip and its wider financial stranglehold across the occupied Palestinian territory.
AURDIP pays tribute to Steven Rose, who passed away on July 9.
A renowned scientist and brain specialist, he was also, together with his wife Hilary, one of the founders of the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science in 1969 and of the British Committee for Universities in Palestine (BRICUP) in 2004, which served as a model for AURDIP when it was created in 2009.
For Steven Rose, research and political and social commitment were inseparable. As a scientist, he fought against deterministic conceptions of human behavior and defended the idea that the interplay of genetic, economic, and social factors still leaves room for individual freedom and responsibility. As a citizen, he was a staunch defender of democratic socialism and of the Palestinian cause, guided by a deep sense of justice.
It is largely thanks to him that the British University and College Union (UCU) adopted a motion to boycott Israeli universities, declaring that “boycotts initiated by civil society have an honorable tradition, from the anti-slavery campaigns to the isolation of apartheid South Africa, as well as the boycotts of Nazi trade.”
He offers the rare example of a figure who succeeded in placing the human at the heart of scientific life and in seeking the universal beyond borders.
GENEVA (16 September 2025) – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel said in a new report today. The Commission urges Israel and all States to fulfil their legal obligations under international law to end the genocide and punish those responsible for it.
Report cites scale of killings and aid blockages and accuses Benjamin Netanyahu of inciting commission of genocide
As the scholarly consensus regarding the genocidal nature of Israel’s violence increases, the KNAW Board furthermore calls on the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science to actively press for suspension of Israel’s participation in the EU’s Horizon Europe programme for scientific and scholarly cooperation.