Why academic institutions are cutting ties with Israel
Messages from colleagues from Gaza and the displaced Palestinian students on our campuses have been the driving force for many of us
Category: Columns
BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom Statement on Academic Boycotts
The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) is firmly committed to academic freedom. In this statement, the BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom explains its position that, contrary to common assumptions, academic boycotts can be consistent with—and even necessary for—upholding academic freedom and fundamental human rights, particularly in contexts of systemic injustice.
Urgent appeal to the leaders of the European Union and the Member States to immediately suspend the Association Agreement between Israel and the European Union
The rectors of Belgian universities just started a new appeal calling on to the EU and member states to suspend the Association Agreement between Israel and the European Union
Joint Statement on the EU-Israel Association Agreement Review
The undersigned human rights and humanitarian organizations and trade unions urge the EU to ensure that the ongoing review of Israel’s compliance with article 2 of the EU-Israel Association Agreement be thorough, comprehensive, and credible.
Maynooth University Update on Gaza and Excellence in Exile, June 2025
The University has reviewed its relationships with Israeli organisations and can confirm that Maynooth University:
- does not hold any investments in arms manufacturing or distribution companies.
- does not hold investments in any company headquartered in Israel.
- does not have any institutional partnerships with any university in Israel.
- does not have any funded research projects with Israeli universities.
The Guardian view on Gaza’s engineered famine: stop arming the slaughter – or lose the rule of law
As Palestinians starve amid the rubble, western governments defend Israel, fund armed aid and dismantle the very rules they claim to uphold
The planned expulsion of Gaza’s population is already underway
Israel is conditioning aid delivery to force Gazans south into ‘concentration zones.’ This scheme has begun to stall, but that only portends greater brutality.
EXCLUSIVE: American Security Contractor Unloads On US-Israeli ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’
I thought I was signing up for an aid mission. But what I’ve witnessed in Gaza is horrific.
Interview: Francesca Albanese: ‘EU officials must face charges of complicity in war crimes’
The UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, doesn’t hesitate to use the term genocide. She repeats it deliberately during her conversation with EUobserver.
Members of Israeli Academia, We Must Go on Strike Now: Silence Is Complicity in the Operations in Gaza
Given the photos and the reports coming out of Gaza, the question is not whether we know, but what we do with this knowledge. One thing is clear: Silence is complicity