Scholasticide in Gaza: The Systematic Destruction of Palestinian Higher Education and the Continuation of Collective Resilience by Friends of Palestinian Universities

• This extreme Palestinian experience has gained a new vocabulary, along with rarely used terminology, intended to reflect the magnitude and dimensions of what the Palestinian people now face. To choose just two of these terms. The first, collective resilience translates most easily into sumud, which is steadfastness in Palestinian terms. The aim here is to match the many different and important ways Palestinians understand, live, and practice this principle  amidst the intolerable conditions they encounter. Thus, it has created an easily understandable universal term that connects to those outside Palestine, who work in the administration of higher education, faculties and staff, students, charities, campaigners, unions, and organisers in the UK and further afield, and for whom this report is written. This practice of collective resilience, while rooted in the tradition of sumud, describes quite simply the vast repertoire used by a people when confronting, enduring, and overcoming a genocide.