BRICUP is the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine...


Dear Supporter



With amazing and insensitive bad taste the Science Museum in London (and the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry) are allowing their premises to be used for an 'Israel Day of Science' sponsored by the Zionist Federation. The research of seven Israeli universities is to be showcased. The planned dates are March 3 (Manchester) and March 5 (London).

Details of the events



This cannot be allowed to happen. These universities are without exception complicit in the mechanisms and policies of the Israeli occupation, and in developing the military technology used in the massacre in Gaza. Protests are rolling in from scientists and non-scientists alike.



BRICUP has drafted a statement to be sent to the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the London Science Museum Lord Waldegrave. We are collecting the names of those who wish to support this statement - and we will then send it in with publicity. Please look at it, and if you agree let us know.




Unless you tell us to the contrary we will take it that you equally oppose the Israel Science Day in Manchester, and are willing to support an equivalent statement to the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry..



Please circulate this message urgently and widely. Time is short - the deadline for signatures is 21 February 21st. We believe that this outrageous piece of PR for Israel can be stopped.



Mike Cushman

for BRICUP

*BRICUP is an organisation of academics whose twin missions are:- *1. to support Palestinian universities, staff and students, and 2. 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

In support of these aims, BRICUP's aims are to:-

a) Put pressure on the EU and the UK government for the exclusion of Israel from the European Research Area.

b) Develop a policy which encourages individual academics to break their professional links with Israel by such actions as:

i) Refusing research collaborations with Israeli institutions or to referee papers or grant applications issuing from such institutions
ii) Refusing to attend academic conferences in Israel
iii) Supporting Israeli academic colleagues working with Palestinian colleagues in their demand for self-determination and academic freedom

c) Work within our trades unions and professional organisations in support of such actions Explore forms of support to Palestinian academic colleagues

You can read more about our work on our website www.bricup.org.uk, or by purchasing our pamphlet "Why boycott Israeli Universities?" (Price including postage and packing within the UK £5.00).

*Donations and pamphlet purchase requests to:
BM BRICUP, London WC1N 3XX, UK*