where Palestinians are denied an equal right to knowledge production, and are prevented from speaking and even knowing their own reality and narrate it.

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The article delves deep into disciplinary cases, analyzing the crackdown as a recent transformation and restructuring of Israeli academia into a system of Epistemic Apartheid;

Excited to share my article on Israeli Universities' most recent crackdown on speech and its effects on Palestinians' knowledge production. The article was published today as part of the Völkerrechtsblog symposium 'Knowledge Under Occupation'.

Read the powerful contribution by @adimansour.bsky.social on how disciplinary procedures against Palestinian students and scholars in Israeli universities have transformed academic institutions into spaces of epistemic policing.
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During the night, it becomes thirsty for war.
Thirsty for death.
Thirsty for destruction.

A genocidal state that spreads its killing machine wherever possible.

A genocidal state of mind, fed with unlimited immunity and ammunition.

End the war. Cut ties. End the genocide in Gaza.

In times, where dozens of Palestinians are massacred, injured, starved and ethnically cleansed daily, where hospitals, schools, universities, libraries, and research centers are amongst the primary targets of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Today, our role as academics, activists, lawyers but mostly humans is critical, not only in understanding the impact of atrocities, but also in exposing those complicit in them, and taking responsibility in creating the conditions for academic freedom, decolonization and equality.

or externally by practicing control over Palestinian students’ and professors’ speech online, outside the peremises of campuses. Therefore, it is through epistemic domination and apartheid that such instituions reflect, but also create the conditions of Palestinians’ exclusion and control.

with research projects infused with militarism and colonial practices, and direct collaborations in weapons production.
Moreover, these institutions condition the production of knowledge and access to higher education, either internally when scholarly work challenges their established paradigm,

with stolen archives and campuses built on ethnically cleansed villages, such as Al-Shaykh Muwannis. Today, all Israeli universities are active accomplices in the continous crimes of Israel, especially in the ongoing genocide of Gaza,

These events lead to the dispossession and expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from historic Palestine, as well as ethnically cleansing more than 500 towns and villages.
Israeli institutions benefited from the displacement of Palestinians, and often reflected the Nakba’s material presence,

First, I discussed the historical conditions of the Nakba and its implementation, and the direct complicity and participation of Israeli universities in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, which was conducted following elaborate planning by Zionist militias and later on, the Israeli state.

In its first day, on the 15th of May, I took part in the opening panel of the conference with Revital Madar and the President of the EUI, Patrizia Nanz. Under the title “In memory of the Nakba, in realisation of its continuity,” I gave a talk on the Nakba as an ongoing violence and structure.

Last week, an important and timely conference on the topics of “complicity in” and “responsibility for” took place at the @eui-eu.bsky.social, organized by the brilliants and. Palestine, and the genocide of Gaza, were at the center of every discussion.

The conference 'An academic dilemma?' has come to an end! 🎓

Scholars gathered to explore how academic institutions can be entangled in issues like human rights violations, environmental destruction & genocide, while also serving as spaces for resistance, critical thought & transformative action. 🗣️