The International Academic Campaign Against Israeli Occupation and Apartheid held its first preparatory meeting to launch the activities of the Academic Conference for Global Solidarity with the Palestinian People for the year 2024. A number of key partners participated in the meeting to revive this event, which falls on November 29.

Ramzi Odeh, Secretary General of the Academic Campaign, pointed out that this year’s academic solidarity activities will include a significant number of partners at home and abroad, namely: the Yasser Arafat Foundation, the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, the National Library, the Human Rights Department of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Union of Palestinian Writers and Authors, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, the Palestine Institute for National Security Research, the Student Forum Foundation, the Palestinian Educational Coalition, and the International Academic Campaigns in Solidarity with the Palestinian People.

Awda explained that this year’s
activities seek to enhance the national and international academic role in stopping the genocide to which our Palestinian people are being subjected.

For his part, Minister Mu’ayyad Shaaban, head of the Wall Resistance Commission, called for the slogan of this event this year to be the necessity of providing international protection for the Palestinian people, in addition to organizing academic solidarity activities in the Jordan Valley areas threatened by settlement.

Qassim Awad, Deputy Director of the Human Rights Department of the Palestine Liberation Organization, confirmed that the department will launch an international campaign of solidarity with the Palestinian people, within the framework of the activities of the International Solidarity Day, from activists, activists and lawyers who support the Palestinian cause in various parts of the world.

For his part, Muhammad Halayqa from the Yasser Arafat Foundation stressed the importance of diversifying activities and limiting them to the cognitive and a
cademic framework, in addition to the necessity of inviting universities and the global student movement supporting the Palestinian cause.

Dr. Rifat Al-Sabah also called for prior coordination with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education in order to develop a plan for schools and universities to commemorate Solidarity Day. For his part, Hisham Hindi considered that law students in Palestinian universities conducting mock trials to hold Israel accountable for its crimes against the Palestinian people is a necessary matter within the framework of the activities of this day.

At the end of the meeting, Major General Habis Al-Sharouf stressed the targeting of the Palestinian academic and educational sector by the Israeli war machine, emphasizing the important role played by researchers in exposing the crimes of the occupation and holding it responsible for the occupation and apartheid.

Source: Maan News Agency