This page will be periodically updated with links to scholarship, documents, and statements on Palestinian education and Israeli attacks on Palestinian educators, students, and academic infrastructure.

History of Palestinian Education

• Khalil Mahshi and Kim Bush, “The Palestinian Uprising and Education for the Future” (1989)
• Munir Fasheh, “The Reading Campaign Experience within Palestinian Society: Innovative Strategies for Learning and Building Community” (1995)
• Ibrahim Abu Lughod, “Palestinian Higher Education: National Identity, Liberation, and Globalization” (2000)
• Munir Fasheh, “Literacy at Times of Crisis: Lessons from Palestine” (2008)
• Ela Greenberg, Preparing the Mothers of Tomorrow: Education and Islam in Mandate Palestine (2010)
• Gish Amit, “Salvage or Plunder? Israel’s ‘Collection’ of Private Palestinian Libraries in West Jerusalem” (2011)
• Ido Zelkovitz, Students and Resistance in Palestine: Books, Guns and Politics (2014)
• Neve Gordon and Michal Rotem, “Bedouin Sumud and the Struggle for Education” (2017)
• Karma Nabulsi “Traditions of Liberation Education” (2018)
• Mezna Qato, “A Primer for a New Terrain: Palestinian Schooling in Jordan, 1950” (2018)
• Gabi Baramki, Peaceful Resistance: Building a Palestinian University Under Occupation (2019)
• Mayssoun Sukarieh, “Decolonizing Education, a View from Palestine: An Interview with Munir Fasheh” (2019)
• Munir Fasheh, “Experiments in Radical Pedagogy in Palestine” (2019)
• Giovanna Fassetta, Nazmi Al-Masri, Alison Phipps, eds., Multilingual Online Academic Collaborration as Resistance: Crossing Impassable Borders (2020)
• Nur Masalha, Palestine Across Millennia A History of Literacy, Learning and Educational Revolutions (2022)
• Kamal Moed, “A Memorable Educator from Palestine: Ahmad Samih Al-Khalidi (1896–1951)” (2022)
• Anne Irfan, “Why Palestinians Are Known as the World’s “Best Educated Refugees” (2023)
• European Training Foundation, “Mujawarat: A Dialogue Based Adult Learning Approach in Palestine” (2025)

Israeli Attacks on Palestinian Educational and Cultural Institutions (Pre-2023)

• Human Rights Watch, “Second Class: Discrimination Against Palestinian Arab Children in Israel’s Schools” (2001)
• Al-Haq, “The Right to Education Under Occupation: A Case Study of the Arab Orphan School, East Jerusalem” (2006)
• Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, “Palestinians, Education, and the Israeli ‘Industry of Fear’” (2010)
• Friends of Birzeit University, “Palestinian Education: Barriers to Access” (2017)
• Rona Sela, Looted and Hidden: Palestinian Archives in Israel (2017)
• Nick Riemer, “The Attack on Palestinian Universities” (2018)
• Daud Abdullah, “A Century of Cultural Genocide in Palestine” (2019)
• Nadia Naser-Najjab, “Palestinian Education and the ‘Logic of Elimination’” (2020)
• Law for Palestine, “Israel’s Arrest Policy against Palestinian University Students (in the West Bank and Israel)” (2023)
• Anwar Qadah, “Education in Jerusalem: A Tool of Soft Colonialism” (2023)
• Maya Wind, Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom, ch. 5 (2024)

The Gaza Scholasticide (2023-Present)

• Chandni Desai, “The War in Gaza is Wiping Out Palestine’s Education and Knowledge Systems” (2024)
• Nagham Mohanna and Nada AlTaher, “The War on Education: How Israel’s Destruction of Schools and Universities Will Set Gaza Back Decades” (2024) 
• César Domínguez, “Scholasticide: Educational Lawfare as a Marker of the End of Civilianness” (2024)
• Ibtisam Mahdi, “The Decimation of Gaza’s Academia is ‘Impossible to Quantify’” (2024)
• Samar Saeed, “Israel’s Continued Colonial Policy of Eradicating Palestinian Knowledge” (2024)
• Alfred Arian, Khalid Razak, et al., “Class Destroyed: The Rise and Ruin of Gaza’s Universities” (2024)
• Marc Lamont Hill, “Palestine, Scholasticide, and the Responsibility of Educators” (2024)
• Jadaliyya, “Gaza On My Mind: Gaza Scholars Speak Out on Scholasticide” (2024)
• Mezna Qato and Basma Hajir, “Academia in a Time of Genocide: Scholasticidal Tendencies and Continuities” (2024)
• Jadaliyya, “Sustaining Higher Education in Gaza – With 6 Gaza Scholars” (2024)
• Henry A. Giroux, “Scholasticide: Waging War on Education from Gaza to the West” (2025)
• Dalal Iriqat et al., “Educide Amid Conflict: The Struggle of the Palestinian Education System” (2025)
• Avi Shlaim, “Scholasticide in Gaza” (2025)
• Rami Salameh, “Educiding Palestinian Higher Education: Ongoing Historical Perspective” (2025)

Public Statements and Reports on the Gaza Scholasticide

• Athena Abadilla et al: “Open letter from North American academics condemning scholasticide in Gaza” (2024)
• FXB Center for Health and Human Rights (Harvard University): “New study of satellite data shows: Israel’s assault on hospitals, schools, and water infrastructure in the Gaza Strip was not ‘random’” (2024)
• United Nations: “UN experts deeply concerned over ‘scholasticide’ in Gaza” (2024)
• Kamalain Shaath et al: “Open letter by Gaza academics and university administrators to the world“(2024)
• Al Mezan Center for Human Rights: “Scholasticide: Israel’s deliberate and systematic destruction of the Palestinian education system in Gaza” (2024)
• Cambridge Faculty of Education et al: “Palestinian education under attack in Gaza: Restoration, recovery, rights and responsibilities in and through education” (2024)
• UNRWA: “Education Under Attack: Restoring learning for children in Gaza” (2024)
• United Nations: “Israeli attacks on educational, religious and cultural sites in the Occupied Palestinian Territory amount to war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination, UN Commission says” (2025)

Personal Testimonies from the Gaza Scholasticide

• Ahmed Alhussaina: “Israel destroyed my university. Where is the outrage?” (2024)
• Aya Al-Hattab: “Determined to graduate despite the horror” (2024)
• Naderra Mushta: “Bringing back learning during genocide” (2024)
• Reem Sleem: “A new life in Egypt, but it is still not home” (2024)
• Aisha Qudaih: “Israel destroyed my education, but not my desire for an education” (2024)
• Ohood Nassar: “Genocide will not stop me graduating” (2024)
• Jannah Ahmad Abu Sitta: “Chargers, PDFs and studying under genocide” (2024)
• Huda Skaik: “With campus destroyed, IUG resumes online classes” (2024)
• Shojaa Al-Safadi: “Some things we can never rebuild” (2024)
• Mohammedwesam Amer: “Personal reflections on Israel’s war on education in Gaza” (2025)

Additional Resources

• Emergency Committee of Universities in Gaza
• Scholars Against the War on Palestine 
• Birzeit University: The Right to Education Campaign
• Passages Through Genocide
• B’Tselem: Reports on “Education”