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Students and academic staff face purity test over views on Gaza, professor warns

Staff and students must refer to Gaza war as genocide or face repercussions and isolation, it was claimed at a JC panel discussion

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

Michael Ben-Gad (centre) and Louis Danker in conversation with the JC (Photo: Ben Castiel)

Image: Getty

Maarten Boudry

By Maarten Boudry

Europe’s silenced scholars: the forced Gaza genocide ‘consensus’

7 min read

Protesters disrupt Michael Ben-Gad's lecture

Ian Pace

The targeting of Israeli Professor Michael Ben-Gad: Britain’s academic freedom crisis

4 min read

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators march through the Columbia University campus to mark one year of the war between Hamas and Israel in New York City on October 7, 2024. (Photo by kena betancur / AFP) (Photo by KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)

Anti-Zionism in academia could leave Israel Studies ‘homeless’, new report warns

By Amelie Botbol

3 min read

What kind of country has Britain become?

The JC Leader

By The JC Leader

What kind of country has Britain become?

3 min read

Jamie O Mahony held onto his Israeli flag when a university staff member lunged towards him to grab it during an Ilan Pappé lecture (Photo: X screenshot)

Who is the Irish student who took on a furious anti-Israel crowd at an Ilan Pappé lecture?

By Jane Prinsley

6 min read

Pro-Gaza activists have been accused of stealing sensitive documents from the University of Cambridge (Getty Images)

Evaldas Barstys

By Evaldas Barstys

If you do not conform to ‘anti-Zionism’ on campus, you become an outcast

1 min read

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Stephen Pollard

By Stephen Pollard

LSE is telling Jewish students: we do not care about you

Defending an organisation that is committed to the elimination not just of Israel but of every Jew is surely a form of targeted harassment of Jewish students

2 min read

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March 5, 2025 10:20

Pro-Palestine students and protesters demonstrate outside the London School of Economics (Getty)

An anonymous academic

By An anonymous academic

Stop subsidising academic agitators to spread poison

Ideological brainwashing is now the norm on Western campuses

3 min read

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March 5, 2025 10:15

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 30: Pro-Palestinian supporters continue to demonstrate with a protest encampment on the campus of Columbia University on April 30, 2024 in New York City. All classes at Columbia University have been held virtually today after school President Minouche Shafik announced a shift to online learning in response to recent campus unrest. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

The JC

Academia crosses a red line

The JC leader, March 7 2025

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March 5, 2025 10:11

Academia crosses a red line

I’m a non-Jewish academic. British universities are racist

A UK professor, who wishes to remain anonymous, explores first-hand the bigotry that has infected higher education

4 min read

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December 5, 2024 16:30

A demonstration in support of Palestinian people at University College London (UCL) main entrance (Photo by BENJAMIN CREMEL/AFP via Getty Images)

If Jewish students wanted to sue Oxford, they’d have a strong case

Oxford authorities seem to care little that there is a climate of fear at the university

By Vernon Bogdanor

3 min read

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August 14, 2024 10:32

The Gaza camp at Oxford University (Photo by ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Jake Wallis Simons

By Jake Wallis Simons

The shameful radicalisation of Columbia comes from Critical Race Theory

This poisonous ideology is spreading across the West

3 min read

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April 25, 2024 11:33

People rally on the campus of Columbia University which is occupied by pro-Palestinian protesters in New York (Photo by Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP)

October 7 floodlit the moral rot of the ‘progressive’ movement

It is time for liberal Jews to accept that neo-Marxist social movements only appear to be our allies

By Natan Sharansky

4 min read

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December 28, 2023 15:25

Gender rights activists and supporters of LGBTQ community express solidarity with Palestinians, as they walk the queer pride parade in New Delhi on November 26, 2023. (Photo by Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP) (Photo by SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Academic specialist in inclusion calls for ‘evil’ Jewish conference to be ‘blown up’

University of Bristol academic made the comment about a Jewish Labour Movement event

By Olivia Gittel

1 min read

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December 7, 2023 13:21

Academic specialist in inclusion calls for ‘evil’ Jewish conference to be ‘blown up’

Tracy-Ann Oberman, John Ware and Emma Picken nominated for inaugural Pete Newbon Award

Newbon, who died last year, campaigned vigorously to raise awareness of anti-Jewish prejudice

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September 28, 2023 19:00

Tracy-Ann Oberman, John Ware and Emma Picken nominated for inaugural Pete Newbon Award

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