This year, Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) begins differently. Students resisting Israel’s genocide in Gaza launch IAW 2025 from the the rubble of their university.
The Secretariat of Student Frameworks in Gaza had planned to commence IAW 2025 from the destroyed campus of the Al-Aqsa University, a site that once stood as a symbol of Palestinian resilience, but has now been reduced to rubble. This year IAW cannot be launched with an event from Gaza due to Israel’s intensified genocidal bombardment, which has murdered hundreds of Palestinians since Israel shattered the fragile ceasefire in the early hours of Monday, 17 March.
“Yet, this must not be a moment of resignation – it must be one of escalation!”
In a statement Palestinian students in Gaza call on people of conscience to make IAW 2025 starting today, the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, a pivotal moment in the joint struggle to dismantle the Israeli regime of settler-colonialism, genocide, and apartheid towards Palestinian liberation.
Read the students full statement