Learning From Oppressed Groups How to Resist Silently

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Interview
Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

Learning From Oppressed Groups How to Resist Silently

17.09.2025

Jean d’Aspremont Anna Sophia Tiedeke

Dear Jean, Thank you very much for taking the time for a concluding interview with us! Though, the word “concluding” may indeed give the wrong impression, as you have pointed...

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

Dear Anna, Khaled and Sissy,

17.09.2025

Marina Veličković

thank you so much for your invitation (& for reading the CLT piece). I have a complicated relationship to the idea of academic freedom (on the one hand I think...

Symposium
Interview
Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

Building Critical Spaces: The Palestine Project and the Future of Legal Education

16.09.2025

Souheir Edelbi Khaled El Mahmoud

I am honoured to be speaking with Dr. Souheir Edelbi, one of the founders of the Palestine Project and a legal academic whose work sits at the intersection of pedagogy, international criminal...

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

Future historians looking back upon the Israel-Gaza conflict may see that it stands at the nodal point of three major developments which have reshaped the coordinates of international institutions established in...

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

Who Gets to Speak in the Israeli University?

13.09.2025

Itamar Mann

Universities often claim to be bastions of free inquiry, including in research and in the classroom. But in Israel today, that claim rings increasingly hollow. While pockets of academic freedom...

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

Academic Freedom on Trial

13.09.2025

Vasuki Nesiah

The previous academic year closed out in May to much drama and dissension on many American campuses. University administrators continued their assault against expressions of solidarity with Palestine or criticisms...

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

Defining Away Palestine

12.09.2025

Ntina Tzouvala

It is not hard to explain to international lawyers why definitions matter: from the seeming impossibility of reaching a universally accepted definition of terrorism in international law to John Yoo’s...

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

Isn’t it Ironic?

11.09.2025

Khaled El Mahmoud Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni Anna Sophia Tiedeke

When a group of (early-career) scholars decides to organize a symposium on the alarming global restrictions of academic freedom – set against the backdrop of the “unfolding Genocide“ in Gaza...

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

Spacio-cide from Palestine to Dutch Academia and Back

10.09.2025

Alessandra Spadaro Fabio Cristiano

The intensification of Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 and the ensuing large-scale destruction of Gaza and killings of Palestinians – which are increasingly regarded by...

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

Protesting and Teaching about Israel-Palestine in The Netherlands, and the Problem of Double Standards

10.09.2025

Otto Spijkers Jeff Handmaker Renee Kolpa

While Dutch academic institutions swiftly and unambiguously condemned Russia’s aggression of Ukraine in February of 2022, soon thereafter accompanied by sweeping institutional sanctions, they have mostly refrained from responding in...

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

Epistemic Apartheid

09.09.2025

Adi Mansour

Silence! Voices must not infiltrate the rhythmic sounds of war, death, and starvation / yet speak, as loudly as you can! Where your words sync with our massacres, when your...

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

Raison d’Etat at Work

09.09.2025

Felix Hartmann

Until recently, employment law disputes rarely intersected with international political controversies. The Middle East conflict, however, has acquired global resonance—amplified by social media and polarized discourse after the Hamas attack...

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

Boycott, Divestment, Sanction as an “Extremist Threat”

08.09.2025

Ben Saul

Since late 2023, some countries have imposed unnecessary, disproportionate and discriminatory restrictions on free expression and peaceful protest critical of Israel’s conduct in the conflict in Gaza and the West...