Israel is targeting Palestinian education, even in its prisons

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The Palestinian National Prisoner Movement has had a long and proud history. Decades of struggle inside the walls of Israel’s jails and detention centres have seen important advances in basic rights for those incarcerated, including in education. Israel’s tally of abuses against detainees But since the start of the genocide in Gaza, Israeli occupation authorities have reversed and cancelled these gains. Prisoners have been stripped of all their rights by the occupation. Instead, they are systematically humiliated, abused, and tortured. Students of all ages are being arrested and imprisoned by Israeli occupation forces (IOF). These detainees must not only cope with…

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Education ministers funded by corporate and pro-Israel lobbyists

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Keir Starmer’s government, true to its deeply shady form, has filled the Department for Education (DfE) with people close to both corporate and pro-Israel lobbyists. And the overlapping right-wing network flows from old Blairites like Peter Mandelson and Jim Murphy to the more recent Starmerites at Labour Together. Electoral Commission statistics show us just how much influence dodgy lobbyists have in the DfE today. The rot of Blair, Mandelson, Murphy, and Labour Together New Labour corporate cronies — from Tony Blair to Mandelson and Murphy — just refuse to go away. But it’s the shadowy lobbying and fundraising networks around them…

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Activists call out Labour’s ‘dangerous militarisation of higher education’

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Labour’s Defence Universities Alliance (DUA) would be a “a dangerous militarisation of higher education“, according to the campaign group Demilitarise Education (dED), which is calling on universities, students, staff, trade unions, and local communities to oppose the initiative.  Defence Industrial Strategy 2025 The DUA was initially announced in September 2025 in the Defence Industrial Strategy, which said:  We will establish a Defence Universities Alliance (DUA) to form a more strategic relationship between defence and the higher education sector.  The DUA will build on existing connections between the sectors to support careers in the defence sector and encourage ethical defence and security…

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