The following motion was carried at an emergency branch general meeting 4 March 2024 for the branch to submit to UCU Congress 2024. The text here is subject to approval of the minutes of that meeting and the approved minutes will be the correct version.

Congress notes:

The genocidal assault on Gaza, the destruction of all its universities, and the targeted killing of its scholars;

The ongoing disruption of West Bank Palestinian universities, administrative detention of students and staff, and the Israeli military quota on visiting scholars;

The established role of Israeli universities in the maintenance of the apartheid system; and

The attempt to suppress Palestinian advocacy and critical scholarly work on MENA in British HE.

Congress resolves to:

Alert all members to existing UCU policy in support of academic BDS, inviting them to sign the Academic Commitment for Palestine;

Campaign vigorously and publicly for disinvestment by USS from genocide-complicit companies;

Defend voices for Palestine on campuses, join and donate £1k to the national campaign, and affiliate to Bricup.

This page was last updated on 11 March 2024