Resources on the Gaza humanitarian crisis
The Development Studies Association are compiling a list of resources to:
- aid those who seek a better understanding of the current situation including the historical and political roots of this crisis
- to highlight research by Palestinian academics
- to support academics in countries who are speaking out on Gaza but facing restrictions on academic freedom of expression
- highlight initiatives in the UK that exist to support Palestinian academics
The list below, while not exhaustive, includes a range of recently published resources from our members and development centres. Researchers working in this area who wish for their work to be added should email the Communications officer. Suggestions on how to improve this resource are also welcome.
Our membership directory allows anyone to search for those who focus on the Middle East or peace and conflict.
Academic accountability
The Accountability Archive: a crowdsourced record of journalists, politicians, and public figures endorsing or encouraging the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and/or defaming pro-Palestinian activists.
Education in Palestine:
- The Hidden War on Higher Education by Rabaia. I and Habash, L. (2024) https://pomeps.org/the-hidden-war-on-higher-education-unmasking-the-educide-in-gaza
- The role of universities in times of war by Jebril, M. (2024)
- Higher Education in the Gaza Strip: Challenges and Future Prospects by Qassrawi, R. (2024) https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656007
- Israel’s war on the education sector in Gaza by Naim, N. (2024)
- Palestinian education: barriers to access Friends of Birzeit University
Higher education under siege by McGahern, U. (2024)
UCU’s list of resources to support education in Palestine (scroll down)
Freedom of academic expression in the UK
- Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom in UK Higher Education: The Adverse Impact of the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism
- UCU statement on freedom of academic expression
- Blog by DSA members with links to further reading on IHRA definition impact on academia.
Support initiatives for Palestinian academics:
- List of educational initiatives to support Gazan students, academics and HEIs, Palestine Academy for Science and Technology
- Academic Action Network for Palestine
- Academic Solidarity with Palestine (in partnership with An-Najah University)
- An-Najah University’s Technical Education Support for HE Students Initiative (TESI)
- BRISMES Fund for HE in Gaza
- LSE’s Palestine programme
- University of Leicester, UK Santcuary initiative
- University of Sanctuary Steering Group
Resources on the crisis:
- Open Access reading list by Taylor and Francis’s Journal of Palestine Studies.
- Compilation of resources by ODI’s Humanitarian Policy Group
- Humanitarian hypocrisy, double standards and the law in Gaza, ODI.
- Contextualising Gaza: Colonial violence and Occupation, IDS
- In the face of genocide, the intifada must be globalised, IDS
- Myanmar, Gaza, and why it’s time for humanitarian resistance, The New Humanitarian.
- Slow Violence, Mental Health and Resilience in Gaza, The Bartlett Development Planning Unit
- Humanitarian efforts for Gaza and does the West have ‘war fatigue’?, radio interview with LSE.
- The humanitarian response to the nightmare in Gaza is failing – here’s what must happen, LSE in The Guardian
- Between shadow ban and self-censorship: Are Palestinian voices being stifled in the Arab MENA region?, LSE
- Protest, Propaganda and Politics: Media coverage of the London ceasefire marches, LSE
- Why Feminist Foreign Policy doesn’t have all the answers to the humanitarian crisis in Israel-Palestine, LSE
- Philip Proudfoot and Martin Griffiths on genocide on the IDS blog.