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Call for Applications: Student-at-Home Scholarships for the Completion of Master’s Studies Within Gaza ActforPal is offering emergency support to master’s students currently residing in Gaza who started their studies before October 2023, who have displayed academic excellence, but who have faced difficulties in completing their programme due to financial hardship. Tuition support is offered to […]

Manufacturing Dehumanization: The Genocidal Logic of ‘Peace Through Strength’ By Professor Tahrir Hamdi, Arab Open University, Jordan Co-founder of ActforPal     On Wednesday, October 29, ActforPal held a hybrid webinar with Hiroshima City University confronting nuclear futures at Hiroshima, at Nagasaki, in Palestine, and beyond. The following is an extract from Prof. Hamdi’s contribution

Nuclear Futures Webinar: From Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Palestine and Beyond Hiroshima City University and online Wednesday October 29, 5–7pm Hiroshima (8–10am London, 11am–1pm Amman) Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nuclear-futures-from-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-to-palestine-and-beyond-tickets-1845769940579 Join ActforPal for a roundtable discussion with Peter Trnka (Memorial University), Aoe Tanami (Hiroshima City University), Nakamura Taira (Hiroshima University), Tahrir Hamdi (Arab Open University), Kaori Hatsumi

Susan Abulhawa on ordinary voices, the power of memory and the imperative of hope   By Prof. Dina Matar, Centre for Global Media and Communications, SOAS University of London Co-founder of ActforPal At an ActforPal webinar, acclaimed Palestinian novelist, scientist and activist Susan Abulhawa addressed the topic of Writing Palestine: Voices of Resistance in a

We are Scientists and Scholars, Not Just Survivors Victoria Brittain, former Associate Foreign Editor of the Guardian     To honour the lives of heroic, professional fellow journalists Anas Al-Sharif, Mohanned Qraeqaa, Ibrahim Zaher, Moanem Alium, Mohammed Noufal and Mohammed El-Khalif—targeted, assassinated and defamed by Israeli forces in Gaza on August 10—I want to share

The Starvation of Dreams: A Researcher’s Account from Gaza   Ayat Al Haj Head of Public Relations and Media at Nasser Medical Complex, Khan Yunis Before October 7, my life was dedicated to the pursuit of scientific research, a passion I embraced with ambition and enjoyment. My dreams didn’t cease after that date; I continued

ActforPal Statement of Anger and Condemnation On the Killing of Six Journalists in Gaza, Including Prominent Al-Jazeera Journalists Anas Al-Sharif and Mohammed Qraeqaa, Alongside Ibrahim Zaher, Moamen Aliwa and Mohammed Noufal, and Sahat News Journalist Mohammed El-Khalidi.   We, at the Academic Action Network for Palestine (ActforPal), express our deepest outrage and unequivocal condemnation over

Watch Your Colonial Language Dr. Afaf Jabiri Co-Director, Centre for Social Justice and Change, University of East London Co-founder of Act for Pal We, Palestinians, are in pain. This pain did not begin with the current genocide; it is a burden we have carried for generations. It began the moment we were born into stories

Israel’s distractive media tactics must be challenged by the media   Byline: Prof. Dina Matar, Centre for Global Media and Communications, SOAS University of London Co-founder of ActforPal   Images and stories of thousands of hungry and desperate Palestinians in Gaza attempting to reach food supplies after months of Israeli-enforced starvation have flooded mainstream media

Academic Freedom and International Solidarity: Reflections from the ‘Academia Under Attack’ Conference in Hamburg By Dr Wesam AmerCouncil for At-Risk Academics/The Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund fellow and visiting researcher, University of CambridgeDean of Faculty of Communication and Languages, Gaza UniversityCo-founder of ActforPal  At a time of increasing anti-Palestinian racism particularly in the