Podcast addresses political persecution of Palestinian students by Israel amid Gaza conflict

Legal rights group Adalah has launched a podcast to address issues facing Palestinian students in Israeli universities and colleges, particularly the political persecution they have encountered since the onset of Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza.

Attorney Lubna Touma from the Adalah Legal Centre discusses the challenges Palestinian students face due to monitoring and restrictive policies imposed by Israeli universities. These policies aim to suppress freedom of expression and limit political activism. The podcast also explores the role of academic institutions in upholding these policies and ways students resist such pressures to safeguard their rights to expression and protest.

The discussion highlights avenues available to students for exercising their right to expression and impact the new reality, emphasising the significance of collective action. The podcast also places these issues in the global context, noting that student monitoring policies are increasingly prevalent worldwide, underscoring the challenges facing freedom of expression within academic institutions around the globe.

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