How does the Fossil Fuel industry influence universities? Here’s the first comprehensive review. In addition to funding research they also sit on governing boards, sponsor professorships, career fairs and even influence curricula. Take a peek: wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wc…

NEW: In Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews today, our latest peer-reviewed research shows fossil fuel companies have systematically infiltrated academia, threatening to bias research and undermine meaningful climate action. THREAD. 📰Open access: bit.ly/FossilFUniv

Deranged Member of Knesset and guardian angel of rapists Tally Gotliv, of the Likud, calls for the execution or life imprisonment of Yuli Novak from B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم, following Novak's speech at the UNSC.

This isn’t about informing people how bad things are. Like the governments stated indifference to intervene and save a sector in crisis, this is about talking up the idea that university’s will go under so that the outrage, resistance and shock will be less when it happens.

This is some truly shameless stuff from the The Giller Prize Dropping ‘Scotiabank’ from the name of the award but keeping the bank (a prominent investor in Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems) as its main sponsor is more insulting than doing nothing. thestar.com/entertainment/…

Breaking: Israeli media is intensely inciting against the active journalist Hassan Aslih, accusing him of photographing the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers by the Palestinian resistance. Israeli media now calling for the targeting and killing of yet another journalist!

To the authors nominated this week for the 2024 Giller Prize: I know it’s a professional sacrifice to withdraw, but this is a picket line you really don’t want to cross Elbit Systems profits help fund this award. Until Scotiabank divests, the prize money is drenched in blood.

“To be in struggle against scholasticide—that is to say, to organize for the fall of the occupation—means refusing to normalize institutionalized intellectual activity that funds genocide.” Welcome to our back to school newsletter.

Wow, Pentagon's spokesperson Sabrina Singh, when pressed by reporter, crumbles after she claimed: "We know that there are tunnels under that corridor" Reporter: "The Egyptians deny the existence of these tunnels. Can you share more about what you know about these tunnels?"

Khaled is free. After 263 of disappearance and imprisonment. The courageous paramedic from Awda Hosp. in Jabalya camp. We first met in the 2nd Intifada and then in the many wars on Gaza. Good news in the midst of such bleakness. These are the people who taught me about medicine.

When the mea culpa confirms the original crime. If the ICC was serious they'd be hunted men.

Our new research out today in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews reveals how the fossil fuel industry has strategically invested in universities for decades to block transformative climate action. w/ Sofia Hiltner, Emily Eaton Noel Healy Andrew Scerri Geoffrey Supran THREAD

It’s so great to see the students at so many colleges and universities coming back principled, willing to sacrifice, and ready to fight back against their repressive institutions. Entering the next phase of the struggle.

It’s obvious to any reasonable observer that the idea that there has been a ‘vicious’ and ‘racist’ antisemitic campaign at the University of Sydney is absurd: my comment to Honi Soit on the ridiculous Zionist attack on Palestine solidarity at the uni. honisoit.com/2024/09/activi…

“Buffer zone” is the code for land annexation through settler colonial annihilation war

It’s so amazing that the Israeli podcast duo’s response defending themselves was “look most Israelis agree w us”

"The Israeli military is accused of blocking medical teams trying to administer polio vaccines" Israel has been blocking medicine, food, water & other essential supplies for months, while targeting and murdering doctors, nurses & aid workers. So why wouldn't they do this too?

We have sent an open letter to the University of York VC and Chair of Council today concerning the proposed redundancy scheme that the Executive Board has proposed. docs.google.com/document/d/1kK… We welcome press enquiries and please do share this widely. The world shoud know about this. UCU

Now free to read: UKRI plans for the scenario of a university exiting the market. Board discussed “worst-case” planning, while sources suggest UKRI has created “observatory” on university finances. researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-res…

Please make every effort to come tomorrow - Sept 7. Police are placing restrictions on the march (timing/where it assembles) - it is important we are there in numbers to exert our democratic rights to protest an ongoing genocide.