Imagine your friends, forced to flee for at least the eighth time – hungry, grieving, running from shells. As Gaza is emptied by bombs and bulldozers, Israeli silence is another form of violence
Unless the UK expedites the safe passage of Palestinians with university offers, the government will have abetted the wiping out of scholarship in Gaza, says Oxford emeritus professor Avi Shlaim
I fear hunger more than death, for it takes you in slow, devouring waves until you become a disintegrating shadow, unable even to scream.
Will anyone read this?
Will anyone believe that a writer could no longer write because he had nothing to eat?
Will anyone care that, in a corner of the world, people are starving so completely that their souls are silenced?
Perhaps not.
But I wrote this – despite everything.
To say that writing is possible.
Only if the body is allowed to survive.
By Husam Maarouf
The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) suspended Russia in 2022 but readmitted it in 2025 instead of suspending Israel in addition. In this article, I explain how this moral decline of the IMO proceeded from 2022 to 2025, and I emphasize its severe negative consequences for the mathematical olympiad community. By Melih Ucer.
As a result of Israel’s deliberate starving of the civilians in Gaza and further war crimes and crimes against humanity, Science4Peace now calls to stop any cooperation with scientific institutions and international corporations involved in Israel’s wars. Its recent declaration (see below) makes this point unmistakably clear and demands the immediate end to the war against Gaza and the end of Gaza’s siege to allow the transport of all urgently necessary live-saving means into the enclave.
The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible
Thirty-one Israeli signatories express their shame, rage and agony over the plight of Palestinians and call for action from the international community
More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study.We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, call on the UK government, Home Office and Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office to facilitate a biometric visa deferral and open a route of safe passage for our incoming students so they can take up their places of study in September.
(Ramallah – Gaza: July 27, 2025) The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) issues an urgent alert about the rapidly deteriorating and catastrophic humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli occupation continues to enforce a systematic starvation policy, implemented through a suffocating blockade and severe restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid.
The Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR), the Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO), and the Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) urgently warn of the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian and health conditions in the Gaza Strip. The famine has now entered a new and critical stage, posing an imminent threat of mass death, unless the international community intervenes without delay.
