Israel's apartheid in the West Bank is designed to suppress resistance to the colonisation and occupation of Palestine. It also suppresses education, with Palestinian universities often targeted with repression and closed, sometimes for years at a time.

The genocide in Gaza has only heightened the brutality of this. The destruction and repression of Palestinian education since it began, including the demolition of every university in Gaza, has been described as a "scholasticide".

At the Socialism Conference Perth, we will be joined by two Palestinian student activists in the West Bank, heroically defying and resisting the oppression of their right to education by Israel.

In the context of a global student movement against the genocide, learning from student activists in Palestine will be extremely valuable for anyone who wants to challenge our own universities and government in their support for Israel.