The report illuminates the way in which Israeli academia created a system of enforcement and punishment that rests de facto on ethnic distinctions, advancing a policy with apartheid characteristics toward Palestinian students while using administrative tools drawn from the field of counter-terrorism. In so doing, it produced a reality in which Palestinian students at academic institutions in Israel are not categorically excluded but are conditionally included: they are admitted as students, yet they are subject to a Foucauldian disciplinary apparatus that polices their political subjectivity, monitors their activity and their expressions off campus, and punishes their political expressions and protests in ways that are not applied to Israeli Jewish students. The institutional form of the disciplinary proceeding is indeed universal, but its application is split along ethno-national lines. Further, it reinforces the ethno-national supremacy that lies at the foundation of the Israeli constitutional order, in that it devotes its full resources to policing the minority while systematically ignoring calls for the annihilation and genocide of the Palestinian people and racist posts directed against the Palestinian population in Israel in general, and Palestinian students in particular.
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