The Open University is facing calls to retract commitments it made to UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) following a complaint about the use of the term “ancient Palestine” in a first-year humanities module.
More than 1,600 academics, writers and public figures – including around 60 members of the House of Lords – have signed an open letter defending Professor Michael Ben-Gad, an Israeli-born economist at City St George’s, University of London, following a…
The University of Leeds has decided to allow Professor James Dickins to retain his emeritus status, despite the official investigation into the case suggesting that he be stripped of the position. As previously reported on the Threats to Freedom page,…