Jamaican-British academic Stuart Hall once said “the university is a critical institution or it is nothing”. Indeed, universities have an important role to play in upholding the imperatives of academic freedom and critical inquiry, especially today, amid the growing debate and protests over Israel’s war on Gaza.
Gaza has shown European universities are no longer places of free inquiryThe crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech and activism on European campuses does not differ in essence from the repression students face in undemocratic settings.
By Tasnima Uddin and A H Misbach