Israeli academia accused of systemic apartheid against Palestinians
A legal report exposes how Israeli universities use a dual-track disciplinary system to target Palestinian students.
One Palestinian student found herself facing permanent expulsion and the revocation of all her academic credits at Zefat Academic College in Israel, after posting a video of a religious preacher praying for the people of Gaza.
Another Palestinian student, at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, was suspended for posting a Quranic verse.
The individual cases reflect a sweeping institutional crackdown documented in a report this week by Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, since Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza began in October 2023.
According to Mansour, this approach resulted in a state of conditional inclusion for Palestinian students in Israeli universities.