British Committee for Universities of Palestine

The British Committee for Universities of Palestine (BRICUP) is an organisation of academics based in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

set up in response to the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel

Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel

The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel was launched in Ramallah in April 2004 by a group of Palestinian academics and intellectuals,including Lisa Taraki and Omar Barghouti....

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BRICUP has two aims:

to support Palestinian universities, staff and students, and

to oppose the continued illegal Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands with its concomitant breaches of international conventions of human rights, its refusal to accept UN resolutions or rulings of the International Court, and its persistent suppression of Palestinian academic freedom.

BRICUP's organising committee comprises Professors Hilary Rose

Hilary Rose (sociologist)

Hilary Rose is a prominent British feminist of sociology of science and social policy. Currently she is Visiting Research Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, Professor Emeritus of Social Policy at the University of Bradford and Professor Emeritus of Physick, Gresham College,...

, Jonathan Rosenhead, Steven Rose

Steven Rose

Steven P. Rose is a Professor of Biology and Neurobiology at the Open University and University of London.-Life:...

and David Seddon.

External links

BRICUP Website
AURDIP - the French parallel group, Association des Universitaires pour le Respect du Droit International en Palestine

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