<article data-history-node-id="428632" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/growing-numbers-universities-sever-ties-israeli-academia-over-gaza-0" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/growing-numbers-universities-sever-ties-israeli-academia-over-gaza-0" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Growing numbers of universities sever ties with Israeli academia over Gaza genocide</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Mounting numbers of universities and academic bodies across Europe and South America are severing ties with Israeli institutions over concerns of their complicity with&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israel</a>'s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/meaning-definition-what-genocide-israel-gaza" target="_blank">genocide in Gaza</a>.</p> <p>Last year,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/tags/brazil" target="_blank">Brazil</a>'s Federal University of Ceara (UFC) cancelled an innovation summit with an Israeli university, while universities across&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/tags/norway" target="_blank">Norway</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/tags/belgium" target="_blank">Belgium</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/tags/spain" target="_blank">Spain</a>&nbsp;cut links with Israeli institutions.</p> <p>This year, others, including Trinity College in Dublin, have followed suit.</p> <p>In March, the University of Amsterdam announced it was halting&nbsp;<a href="https://www.jta.org/2025/03/18/global/university-of-amsterdam-ends-student-exchange-with-hebrew-u-saying-its-complicit-with-israeli-military" target="_blank">a student exchange programme</a>&nbsp;with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, while&nbsp;<a href="https://easaonline.org/implementation-guidelines-israel-academic-institutions/" target="_blank">the European Association of Social Anthropologists</a>&nbsp;declared it would not collaborate with Israeli academic institutions.</p> <p>However, most universities in the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/tags/united-kingdom" target="_blank">UK</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/tags/france" target="_blank">France</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/tags/germany" target="_blank">Germany</a>&nbsp;have resisted mounting pressure from staff and students to do the same.</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a aria-label="Growing numbers of universities sever ties with Israeli academia over Gaza genocide" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/growing-numbers-universities-sever-ties-israeli-academia-over-gaza-genocide">Growing numbers of universities sever ties with Israeli academia over Gaza genocide</a></h3> <p><img alt src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/max_2600x2600/public/images-story/ghassan-abu-sittah-speaking-university-college-london-speech-afp.jpg.jpg?itok=coszBYU_"></p> </div> </div> </article>

As Hamas says it will delay the release of captives until violations cease, here is a look at documented breaches

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