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Ian Pace

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

This hate campaign exposes a deeper rot in UK universities – beyond antisemitism – where rational inquiry yields to dogma and progressive orthodoxies must not be challenged

4 min read

Protesters disrupt Michael Ben-Gad's lecture

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

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

Stephen Pollard

By Stephen Pollard

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

2 min read

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)

An anonymous academic

By An anonymous academic

Stop subsidising academic agitators to spread poison

3 min read

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Rosalind Franklin's role in discovery of DNA recognised with blue plaque

The Jewish scientist's pioneering work previously escaped recognition

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September 1, 2023 15:44

Rosalind Franklin's role in discovery of DNA recognised with blue plaque

Liverpool students vote to reject BDS, reversing a 2015 poll in support of the divisive movement

A total of 820 students voted down a motion to back the anti-Israel campaign, while 748 backed it

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May 5, 2022 14:45

Liverpool students vote to reject BDS, reversing a 2015 poll in support of the divisive movement

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