OsloMet’s NORHED-partner in Palestine, Birzeit University have sent this plea to all international academic institutions: Do not be Silent abut Genocide!
As NORHED partners in the MIDRED project we request an academic pressure to stop the ongoing Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people. International leaders in power must end this ongoing catastrophe and search for political solutions to ensure all people in the region their human rights and protection. Living in 2023 we expect that coexistence should be regulated by legal humanitarian means, not by crime against humanity.
We encourage the academic society to put pressure on their political leaders to follow those countries who already have condemned the blockade, including the Norwegian Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt who criticized the total blockade of Gaza as unacceptable and emphasized that Israel must adhere to international law.
Berit Mortensen, NORHEDII-MIDRED project manager