Pro-Palestinian activism is opening up universities to debate and learning and adding pressure for political change.

Pro-Palestinian activism is opening up universities to debate and learning and adding pressure for political change.

Unlike his predecessors, Israel’s new prime minister, Naftali Bennett, is unabashedly embracing apartheid.
![Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett chairs the first weekly cabinet meeting of the new government in Jerusalem, Sunday, June 20, 2021. [Emmanuel Dunand/Pool Photo via AP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/AP21171332650776.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Why are some Western ‘anti-imperialists’ determined to whitewash China’s well-documented crimes against the Uighurs?
![Ethnic Uighur demonstrators take part in a protest against China, in Istanbul, Turkey October 1, 2020. [Murad Sezer/Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2020-10-01T114951Z_1444454967_RC2N9J9X7LBY_RTRMADP_3_CHINA-XINJIANG-TURKEY.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The French state is trying to censor and make invisible the critique of its colonial history and present.
![In February 2021, French Higher Education, Research and Innovation Minister Frederique Vidal denounced what she calls 'Islamo-leftism' and its 'gangrene' effect on France [Sebastien Bozon/AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/000_8R68WL.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
More than a thousand academics and lawyers call for the repression of speech and scholarship on Palestine to end.

A recent UN report contributes to Israeli exploitation of human rights discourse to justify oppression in Palestine.

Calls for Marc Lamont Hill’s ‘dismissal’ from Temple University shows Israel is losing the battle at US universities.

A new generation of scholars continues the push for the academic boycott of Israel, despite setbacks and strong lobbies.

The firing of Professor Steven Salaita highlights infringements on academic freedom in the US.
!['One wonders why it is that critics of Israel are particularly vulnerable to attack,' writes Palumbo-Liu [AP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/20148209029272734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
History is repeating itself in a tragedy of epic proportions.
![Israel's bombardment of Gaza has cost the lives of more than 350 civilians [AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/201471842015246734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)