For the past week, various organisations and students have directed protests at Birmingham University in light of today’s forthcoming event, at which Azaam Tamimi is due to speak.
Last night, protests reached fever pitch as this Facebook group swelled to over 650 members, as well as currently over 480+ have signed this petition.
Finally, a student [...]
Last week we were informed that on the 20th of January, Azzam Tamimi, a man who has endorsed Hamas will be speaking by invitation at the University of Birmingham. The event entitled, “In Pursuit of Justice: Remember Gaza” is organised by the university’s Islamic society (ISOC).
The choice of speaker, Tamimi, has a long history of [...]
Late last night, Student Rights learned that Reza Pankhurst, the member of Hizb-ut-Tahrir who was stopped from speaking at Queen Mary University last month is currently teaching at the London School of Economics.
The Times has reported the issue on this morning’s page 3, with students from the LSE commenting that “Only last week he was [...]
By Erica Dobin, a student at the London School of Economics (contact info@studentrights.org.uk if you’d like to write an opinion piece for us, too)
As Palestinian journalist Abu Toameh states, “being anti-Israel doesn’t make you pro-Palestine.” It is easier to be anti-Israel than pro-Palestinian because then you never have to really articulate what you are for, [...]
Yes, you read that painful pun correctly. Today The Sun has reported that a study into University students in the United Kingdom shows that a staggering 60% of students would consider being in a pornographic film in order to help pay off their student debts.
The statistics of the survey have not been revealed, and funnily [...]
Yesterday, Universities UK, the organisation that represents the executive members of University management across the United Kingdom announced it will be launching a ‘working group’ looking into the issues of Freedom of Expression and Extremism on University campuses.
This follows the attempted bombing on Christmas Day and subsequent arrest of former UCL Student Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
What [...]
Over the Christmas and New Year break, we’ve all seen the story of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab unfold. We know he was educated at a British University, we know he was the head of the Islamic Society at UCL and we know he attempted to destroy Flight 253 to Detroit on Christmas Day.
Student Rights of course [...]
