After highlighting the destruction of education, and particularly higher education, in Gaza, Gordon will analyse the different strategies universities in Europe and Israel have adopted to silence Palestinian and pro-Palestinian speech and activism whole stressing both the Palestinian exception and the clampdown’s connection to the ‘marketisation of the university’ and the rise of extreme right-wing politics.

After the lecture, there will a panel discussion and with Hilla Dayan (sociologist, AUC), Liana Saif (humanities, UvA) and Michiel Bot (Law, Tilburg University) and time for Q&A from the public. Moderation: Yolande Jansen 

After teaching for seventeen years at Ben-Gurion University in Israel, Neve Gordon joined the School of Law at Queen Mary University of London, where he is Professor of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law. His research focuses on international humanitarian law, human rights, the ethics of violence, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He is the author of Israel’s Occupation (University of California Press 2008) and co-author of The Human Right to Dominate (Oxford University Press, 2015), Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire (University of California Press, 2020). Gordon is the former Chair of BRISMES’s Committee on Academic Freedom, and writes regularly for the popular press.