In the face of occupation, destruction and massacres, our Palestinian colleagues are calling for international solidarity, as the Union of Teachers and Employees at Birzeit University and Birzeit students have done, and the international academic community is indeed mobilizing in solidarity with Palestine. Groups of academics from the USA, Australia, Belgium, the UK, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Scandinavia and Uruguay have declared their support for the Palestinian people and their condemnation of the massacre committed by the Israeli armed forces. In many higher education institutions in the US, students have expressed their fury with the US administration's complicity with Israel's far-right government by demonstrating on and off campuses.
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