Here is what academic life in Gaza is like

28 October 2025 Ahmed Kamal Junina, an assistant professor of applied linguistics at Al-Aqsa University, vividly describes in this article in the Independent just what it means to teach amidst the scholasticide and the horrendous punishment Israel has inflicted upon the Gaza community. Back to school in Gaza is now education reduced to fragments University…

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Scholasticide in Gaza and the fight back

28 October 2025 Four prominent scholars, Chandni Desai of the University of Toronto, Sundos Hammad of Birzeit University, Ahmed Abu Shaban of Al-Ahar University, and Abdul Razzaq of Rice University, have published an important article in Curriculum Inquiry on the meaning of scholasticide, how Israel has applied it against the Palestine people in Gaza, the…

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A Gramscian analysis of campus repression

23 September 2025 Two Turkish scholars apply Gramscian theory to explain the intensified repression of free speech and academic freedom since October 2023 in this article from Informed Comment. Academic Freedom Under Siege: Right Wing Repression and Principled Resistance By Mehmet Rakipoğlu and İbrahim Özcoşar, published 21.10.2025 Exeter, UK and Mardin, Türkiye (Special to Informed…

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Hebrew University illustrates why boycotting Israeli universities should continue

19 October 2025 Yohai Hakak of Academic-BDS publishes the following statement from Hebrew University administrators and the brief response from Metanya Ben-Artzi, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics as an illustration of why we should continue to boycott Israeli universities. The point is well made. “Dear colleagues, in case you remain indecisive about the academic boycott of…

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