The BRISMES Committee on #AcademicFreedom has published a statement on academic #boycotts. These can be consistent with—and even necessary for—upholding academic freedom and fundamental human rights, particularly in contexts of systemic injustice. Read the statement in full: bit.ly/CAF_Boycotts...

On 1 July, following the #BRISMES2025 keynote lecture by Dr Rana Barakat, BRISMES members and conference participants stood in solidarity with all those affected by Israeli bombardments. #StopArmingIsrael #EndTheGenocide

Thank you to everyone who attended the plenary “Ruins and Rebuilding: Academic and Activist Solidarities Across Borders” at #BRISMES2025. Our heartfelt thanks to our invited speakers Muna Dajani, Jasmine Gani, Golam Khiabany, Aya Nassar and Hala Shoman for their time and words.

🙏🏾Thanks @brismes.bsky.social for an inspiring & empowering conference in Newcastle. I wish German scholarly associations such as DAVO, DVPW would aim to create such solidarity & community amongst scholars. Also a big thanks to BRISMES members for electing me into the Committee for Academic Freedom.

On 2 July, following the BRISMES Annual General Meeting at #BRISMES2025, members and conference participants stood in solidarity with Alaa Abd El-Fattah and Leila Soueif. #FreeAlaa #SaveLaila #FreeThemAll

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us at #BRISMES2025 — to our plenary and keynote speakers, our conference organising team and student volunteers, and to our amazing hosts at Newcastle University, including the support staff who made the event possible.

📢 Call for Papers Join SARN UK's AHRC-funded First International Conference at the University of Sussex, Brighton. 🗓️ 18–19 Sept 2025 | 📍University of Sussex Theme: Rebuilding Syria: Reflections, Innovations & Collaborations 📝 Submit by 20 June 2025 🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#BRISMES2025 | Registration for non-speaking delegates for our 2025 BRISMES conference “Destruction, Loss, and Recovery in the Middle East” is now open! 📅 Register by 12 June 2025 More information & registration: shorturl.at/2Xf4S

#AcademicFreedom | With utmost urgency BRISMES CAF demands that the Prime Minister’s Office immediately intervene and lobby the Egyptian government for the immediate and unconditional release of Alaa Abd El-Fattah. Read our letter: shorturl.at/SALSt (1/3) #FreeAlaa

The BRISMES Committee on #AcademicFreedom has published a response to the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) report on #studentencampments and #Palestine solidarity. Read the statement in full: bit.ly/CAF_04062025 Please share widely.

🎓 MENACS Talk 🎓 🗓️ 4.00pm; 13 Jun 25 📍 MAH Resource Centre, Sussex University, Campus, Brighton 🕰️ Chaired by Dr @ferasalkabani.bsky.social Join SARN UK's member Reem Noureddin's talk on: 'The Gendered Impact of Conflict & Crisis: Syrian Girls’ Education & the Pathway to Recovery’

KCL UCU sends its solidarity to the students who have, since Monday evening, re-occupied King’s Strand campus quad to protest our university’s continued complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza and oppression of the Palestinian people. Our full statement ➡️ docs.google.com/document/d/1...

On Nakba Day let's recall British complicity in covering up the horrors of 1948 and the years preceding it. Below, a Guardian article from 1977 by the Historian Bernard Wasserstein reveals the destruction of key documents related to Palestine by the British State in the decade after the Nakba.

On May 15, Palestinians mark the Nakba. What began in 1948 remains the world’s longest unresolved refugee crisis.

Palestinian ex-prisoner of almost 30 years Wael El Gaube details Israel's horrifying treatment of detainees as revenge following the October 7 2023 attacks

A police attack on a film screening is just one of the assaults on student freedoms that have turned UCLA into more of a fortress than a place of higher learning, write four UCLA faculty members.

BREAKING: Court orders Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri to be *freed* from ICE detention. Dr. Khan Suri — whose research focuses on peace building — was detained by the Trump administration two months ago. Follows the freeing of Mohsen Mahdawi & Rumeysa Ozturk.

IF U SEE THIS ON YOUR TL, PLEASE REPOST!!! I'm doing everything I can to keep my family alive, but I can't do it alone. We're surviving bombs, but hunger is killing us slowly. I wouldn’t ask if we weren’t desperate. Every donation helps us eat. Pls donate and share 🙏💔 ko-fi.com/itslayla

"The ICC's chief prosecutor has lost access to his email, and his bank accounts have been frozen. American staffers have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest. Some NGOs have stopped working with the ICC" after Trump sanctioned the court. apnews.com/article/icc-...

Israel has rapidly accelerated its destruction of Rafah in April and May. It's hard to understand the magnitude of this, even when spending time analyzing recent satellite imagery. From me, Samuel Granados, Aaron Boxerman, and @rileymellen.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

University of Warwick staff & students stand with Palestine 🇵🇸 #workplacedayofaction #nakba77 # EndTheGenocide @pscupdates.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

Hope to see colleagues at Warwick Uni at this day of events for Palestine #Nakba77 #EndTheGenocide #FreePalestine

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Hadi. Hadi and his wife Manal’s little girl Ayla needed several hip surgeries to make sure she could walk correctly (including one at 2 where she wore a cast for 6 months). Ayla was scheduled for another surgery and hasn’t been able to get it

Please donate or share

Heartbreaking and enraging. #StopBombingYemen

Today the ICJ will start a 5 day case on whether Israel is meeting its humanitarian obligations in the occupied Palestinian territory as the occupying power. Israel will of course ignore its ruling. Rory Challands reporting

Israeli military spending soars by 65 percent following Israel's war on Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-military-spending-soars-65-percent-following-israels-war-gaza

It's the dirtiest war in history. Everything is killed, even trees and stones.A war of extermination from which there is no escape.What's harder than dying from bombing is dying of hunger.. Please,help provide some food and flour.Please donate, share,quote chuffed.org/project/help...

This is my share from yesterday and I struggled to raise enough to get a bag of flour even 💔 GoGetFunding is harder to raise on but Farrah waited a long time to be shared and has a lot of verification.

International NGOs largely continue to support a Eurocentric framework for development, even as they claim to be "decolonising" their practices. @surbhikesar.bsky.social and I explain our research on the Reimagining Development podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/36yd...

We cannot allow this to be normalised. #boycottIsrael #StopArmingIsrael #EndTheGenocide

US airlift delivers hundreds of bombs to Israel, say Israeli media - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/us-airlift-delivers-hundreds-bombs-israel-say-israeli-media

Shameful

Stop bombing Yemen.

Why did UK media ignore Lammy's secret meeting with Israeli foreign minister? - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/why-did-uk-media-ignore-lammys-secret-meeting-israeli-foreign-minister-0

Yet another journalist murdered by Israel. As Michael Rosen writes, ‘the genocide will not be televised’

Where’s the outrage over sexual violence against Palestinians? Israel has systematically employed sexual violence and gender-based crimes against Palestinian women, men, and children since October 7. www.972mag.com/wheres-the-o...

Phrases dealing with climate, women and security have been rephrased in new NATO legislation, in a bid to avoid retaliation by the Trump administration.

"Katz has simply once again admitted to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocidal acts. There is no other interpretation, no way of reframing it, no leeway." www.owenjones.news/p/israel-say... #BDS #BoycottIsrael #Gaza #GazaStrip #Israel #Palestine

Love when my share of the day gets a spam label before the day is up 🫠 Please help Mahmoud who already waited an extraordinary long amount of time for me to share him

As our polls show that fewer than 1 in 5 Americans back US takeover of Gaza or removing Palestinians from there, a Gallup poll also shows majority support for Palestinian state, including 76% of Democrats, most independents, and even 41% of Republicans! www.brookings.edu/articles/few...

Morocco: Pro-Palestine activists denounce increased state repression - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/morocco-pro-palestine-activists-denounce-increased-state-repression

#gaza #palestine #blockade #medicines #israel #zionism The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) confirmed Wednesday that the severe shortage of medicines and medical supplies in the Gaza Strip poses a serious threat to the lives of patients.

#gaza #buffer-zone #israel #occupation #zionism #palestine #blockade Israel announced Wednesday it had converted 30 percent of Gaza into a buffer zone as it pressed its unrelenting military offensive, vowing to maintain its blockade on humanitarian aid to the war-ravaged territory.

One month on, killings persist in Syria’s Alawi heartlands - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/syria-one-month-killings-persist-alawi-heartland

Ahmad’s account keeps getting removed but he needs help for his family and hasn’t had a donation in two days

Maysaa is raising via PayPal Pool but she is a real person in Gaza ❤️