UK charities call for immediate end to closure of Gaza after 15 years of collective punishment and imposed fragmentation 20th July 2022 Since June 2007, consecutive Israeli governments have imposed a severe closure regime and blockade on the civilian population…
The University and College Union (UCU) has joined international calls for Israel to cancel its planned restrictions on Palestinian universities. The largest trade union representing higher education workers warned that the new policy “threatens a major tightening of restrictions on…
Last week Fobzu board member Dr Mezna Qato took time out of her research trip to the occupied West Bank to return to Birzeit University and meet with students and colleagues on campus. Meeting with members of the Advancement…
Fobzu (Friends of Birzeit University) – Programme Officer Would you like to work for one of the longest-running Palestinian solidarity organisations in the UK and contribute to a dynamic phase of renewal? Fobzu is dedicated to supporting Palestinian higher…
“I chose journalism to be close to the people. It might not be easy to change the reality, but at least I could convey their voice to the world.” Shireen Abu Akleh (1971-2022) On 11th May, veteran Palestinian journalist…
Fobzu, the Birzeit University Museum and the Council for Arab-British Understanding invite you to the Annual Leila Ingrams Webinar Resistance and Education in Palestine: Britain’s Colonial Long Shadow with Yasmeen Qaadan, PhD Candidate, Birzeit University Doctoral Program…
Fobzu and UCU present EDUCATION, OCCUPATION & LIBERATION The growing attack on Palestinian students: Education and arbitrary detention under military occupation with Aleisha Ebrahimi Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights and Associate Lecturer in Law at…
Earlier this month, Israeli military authorities issued a new directive marking a major tightening of restrictions on international faculty and students teaching and learning at Palestinian universities in a step described by Birzeit University as imposing a ‘siege’ on Palestinian…
Administrative detention is a procedure that allows Israeli military authorities to detain prisoners for indefinite periods on no charge and without trial or access to the evidence against them. It has been used by Israel since 1967 to repress opposition…
Israeli military forces stormed Birzeit University campus on Monday afternoon. As students and lecturers were coming and going from classes, they were met with live fire from Israeli soldiers following undercover forces that had infiltrated the university. Five students were…
EDUCATION, OCCUPATION & LIBERATION PROGRAMME Back to School under Siege: Hope amid war in Gaza with Nuriya Oswald, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights Dr Nazmi Al Masri, Associate Professor of Education, Islamic University of Gaza and …
Earlier this year, Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights (LPHR) and Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association submitted a complaint to the United Nations Working Group for Arbitrary Detention about the ongoing Israeli military detention of three female Birzeit students.…
