“We built these universities from tents. And from tents, with the support of our friends, we will rebuild them once again.”

Unified Call from Palestinian academics and administrators of Gaza Universities, 29 April 2024

Join us to hear first-hand from Right to Education Campaign (Birzeit University) about how Palestinian Higher Education institutions are resisting erasure through the collective work of the Emergency Committee of Universities in Gaza and their respective efforts to continue teaching and learning, despite the physical destruction of university campuses by relentless Israeli attacks.

We will discuss how transnational solidarity can promote the resilience and rehabilitation of Gaza’s education sector in partnership with UK universities and the role of boycott, divestment and sanctions campaigns in confronting UK Higher Education complicity in scholasticide.

Speakers:

Sundos Hammad: Right to Education Campaign, Birzeit University

Anne Alexander: University of Cambridge and British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP)

This event is part of a national speaking tour organised by University and College Workers for Palestine and BRICUP with support from UCU and is hosted by University of Nottingham UCU branch.

The Right to Education campaign is a grassroots Palestinian movement which began in 1988 in order to document, research and raise consciousness about the oppression of Palestinian students, teachers and academic institutions under Israeli military occupation. They work to empower students to claim their human right to education, to overcome the isolation of Palestinian educational institutions and to demand an end to the illegal Israeli occupation.

BRICUP is an organisation of UK based academics, set up in response to the Palestinian Call for Academic Boycott. Its twin missions are: (i) to support Palestinian universities, staff and students, and (ii) to oppose the continued illegal Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands with its concomitant breaches of international conventions of human rights, its refusal to accept UN resolutions or rulings of the International Court, and its persistent suppression of Palestinian academic freedoms.