Birzeit University: Another 'Strategic Target' in the West Bank
The New Arab reports Israeli forces wounded 11 after storming Birzeit University over a student solidarity event. For context: Targeting Palestinian academic and cultural institutions is hardly new. This echoes the systematic closures of Palestinian universities during the First Intifada by Israeli military order and the recurring raids on Birzeit itself, like the 2021 pre-dawn arrests of
students. What’s next, declaring poetry a threat to national security? Instead of addressing the actual grievances of an occupied population, the strategy appears to be terrorizing campuses into silence. One has to wonder: at what point do these 'security operations' stop looking like defense and start looking exactly like collective punishment designed to quash dissent?