What ‘Day After’ for Gaza?
The most influential plans for rebuilding Gaza start from the premise that Palestinians have no right to determine their future.
Category: Columns
Press Release No. 2: Our conference will take place as planned, on November 13 and 14.
Despite the announcements made by the Minister of Education and Research and the Administrator of the Collège de France, we look forward to welcoming many of you.
The Collège de France yields to pressure and cancels the symposium “Palestine and Europe”
We are angered and compelled to announce that the administrator of the Collège de France has decided to cancel the symposium “Palestine and Europe: The Weight of the Past and Contemporary Dynamics” – scheduled for November 13 and 14 – which had been planned for several months by the Chair of Contemporary History of the Arab World at the Collège de France and the Arab Center for Research and Political Studies in Paris (CAREP Paris).
One target at a time: The logic that helped Israeli liberals commit genocide
By attaching a military goal to each act of killing, Israelis of all stripes could partake in the slaughter without questioning the morality of their actions.
Al Mezan Urges Immediate Release of Dr. Abu Safiya Ahead of Tomorrow’s Court Hearing
Gaza, 15 October 2025 – Al Mezan is extremely worried about the arbitrary detention of Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya, a Palestinian paediatrician and the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital. Dr. Abu Safiya was not included in the group of Palestinians prisoners and detainees released by Israel as part of the recent ceasefire agreement, raising the alarm that his detention is likely to be extended once again under Israel’s Unlawful Combatants Law.
In Gaza, We Are Literally Losing Our Ability to Speak
The human mind, faced with relentless pain, erects invisible barricades. Here, amid genocide, one of them is the ability to express our trauma out loud.
EUROPEAN DECLARATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION
No academia as usual during Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide in Palestine
Statement by the KNAW Board on the situation in Gaza
As the scholarly consensus regarding the genocidal nature of Israel’s violence increases, the KNAW Board furthermore calls on the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science to actively press for suspension of Israel’s participation in the EU’s Horizon Europe programme for scientific and scholarly cooperation.
Indian academia in times of genocide
It is our duty, as academics and scientists, to do everything in our power to put pressure on the Israeli government to change its policy.
Open letter to World Bank President Ajay Banga condemning the smear campaign against Massimiliano Cali
A group of scholars firmly rejects and condemns the toxic smear campaign targeting the World Bank Senior Economist, Mr. Massimiliano Cali. Mr. Cali is the husband of Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. It is clear that he is being singled out by bad-faith actors such as “UN Watch,” an organization with a long record of smearing critics of Israel, in a malign attempt to delegitimize and silence Ms. Albanese in her role as Special Rapporteur. This campaign comes in the wake of the shameful sanctions imposed on Ms. Albanese by the US government, and at a time when the Israeli government is intensifying its war on Gaza—a war that many respected institutions and leading experts have identified as genocidal.