In March 2022, Israeli military authorities issued a new directive governing entry and residence in the occupied West Bank. Implementation of the new policy, which represents a major escalation of repressive measures against Palestinian universities, was delayed but came into effect on 20th October. The new regulations require international students and faculty to demonstrate that they meet other criteria set by Israeli military authorities, breaching both Palestinian sovereign rights, the autonomy of Palestinian universities and undermining Palestinian academic freedom.
The President of Birzeit University, Professor Beshara Doumani and the founding director of Adalah - The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, Dr Hassan Jabareen discuss with Dr Donna Baillie (Fobzu Board) the latest steps taken by the Israeli military authorities to isolate Palestinian higher education and their impact on Palestinian universities.

This event was held on 14th November 20022 during Right to Education Week organised by the Right to Education Campaign at Birzeit University, an annual programme of events aimed at raising awareness about the struggle for academic freedom under occupation.
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Professor Beshara Doumani is the fifth President of Birzeit University and a historian whose research focuses on social lives of ordinary people who have been neglected in mainstream scholarship. He is the inaugural Mahmoud Darwish Professor of Palestinian Studies, the first chair of its kind dedicated to this field of study. He is also the founding director (2012-2018) of Brown's Center for Middle East Studies (CMES), and founder of New Directions for Palestinian Studies, a CMES initiative since 2012. From 2012-2020 he was the Joukowsky Family Distinguished Professor of Modern Middle East History. Professor Doumani has published widely on the early modern and modern Middle East. His books include Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900, and Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean: A Social History.

Dr Hassan Jabareen founded Adalah - The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel in 1996. He has served as Adalah’s general and legal director since its establishment. He holds an LLB in Law and a BA in Philosophy from Tel Aviv University, an LLM in International Human Rights from American University Washington College of Law, and a PhD in Law from Hebrew University. He has litigated scores of landmark constitutional law cases regarding Palestinian citizens of Israel, and international humanitarian law cases concerning Palestinians in the 1967 Occupied Territory before the Israeli Supreme Court. Dr Jabareen has also written widely on defending the rights of Palestinians in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.

Dr Donna Baillie is Chair of the Fobzu Board of Trustees with extensive consulting experience in the public and third sectors. In her previous role as a documentary filmmaker she produced films about the second intifada which have been broadcast by major networks and featured in high profile film festivals around the world. Following this, she conducted academic research into sociopsychological dynamics within Israel/Palestine, completing a doctorate in Social Psychology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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