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Image of Surgeon Dr Ghassan Abu-Sitta, Rector of the University of Glasgow. [image credit: Middle East Monitor]

Europe's academics speak out against Israel’s genocide in Gaza

After over six months of Israel’s siege in Gaza at least 34,000 people have been killed, more than half of Gaza’s housing has been destroyed. Israel has deliberately blockaded food and water, using famine as a weapon. Israel has been ordered by the International Court of Justice

President Javier Milei of Argentina holding a chainsaw at a campaign event.

Send a letter opposing the devastation of science in Argentina

From the RAICYT Network, Argentina The Argentinean scientific system is under serious threat. The Network of Authorities of Science and Technology Institutes (RAICYT) of Argentina is undertaking a campaign to request international support in defense of the research system. On 10 December 2023, a new government took office, headed by

International Union of Scientists launches new website. [Image credit NASA/Bill Anders]

IUS website launch

This is the new website of the International Union of Scientists, an international collaboration of concerned scientists against militarism and the destructive use of science and technology. The group coalesced in early 2024. The website launched in early April 2024; existing content was relocated into this system. The hosting software

Photograph of Members of the South African Delegation at the ICJ, January 2024. Photo credit: ICJ

Urge Governments to Invoke the Genocide Convention

As the atrocities in Gaza continue, the Republic of Ireland announced on 28 March 2024 that it will intervene in the genocide case against Israel. In December 2023, the Republic of South Africa showed admirable leadership in filing an 84-page request to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), asking that

Dwight Eisenhower gives his 1961 Farewell Address

Against Militarism

by Professor Richard Falk. Adapted from a speech given by Richard A. Falk on 9 December 2023 at The International Convention Against War and Destructive Use of Science: Scientists Against Israeli Apartheid, Occupation and Genocide in Gaza. I find the initiative that the organizing committee has taken in producing this

Screen capture of Scientists Against Israeli Apartheid, Occupation and Genocide in Gaza event, 9 December 2023.

Sign the Scientists’ Declaration Against the Palestinian Genocide

Adopted at the International Convention Against War and Destructive Use of Science held on 9 December, 2023 Scientists’ Declaration Against Genocide and in Support of Palestine We, the undersigned members of the international scientific community, strongly condemn the Israeli state’s continuing genocidal attacks on Palestinians, who are indigenous to

Image of Professor Richard Falk, keynote speaker at the Convention.

International Convention Against War and Destructive Use of Science: Scientists Against Israeli Apartheid, Occupation and Genocide in Gaza

On 9th December 2023, more than 500 scientists from 40 countries, including physicists, mathematicians, biologists, chemists, medical doctors, engineers, and social scientists, working in academia and in industry, are compelled by the events in Gaza to call for an immediate permanent ceasefire and take a stand against war and the