Birzeit University’s Right to Education Campaign seeks to build ‘tactics of focused resistance’
In the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, professors and students from prominent U.S. universities have participated in virtual discussions on the Jewish state’s retaliatory war organized by a Palestinian university that hosts campus military parades honoring Hamas.
Birzeit University, which is located in the West Bank and bills itself as “a thorn in the side of the occupation,” operates the Right to Education Campaign, a self-described “grassroots Palestinian movement” aimed at documenting “academic institutions under Israeli military operation.” The campaign has held a number of virtual events featuring U.S. professors and students.
Last month, for example, it held a webinar titled, “Gaza Genocide: An…
