Centre for Global Education

Israeli forces are clearing rubble from neighbourhoods and facilities they have destroyed in the Gaza Strip and relocating it to areas under their military control outside the Strip. They are doing this to remove crucial evidence of the genocide from independent verification, including the remains of victims still unaccounted for under the rubble.

Israel wipes genocide evidence in Gaza, carting off rubble and remains in 100 trucks daily At least 10 million tonnes of rubble have been removed, crushed, or moved from their original sites within the areas under Israel’s unlawful military control

This is a reproduction of a speech delivered in 1974 by Stuart Hall, the Jamaican-born sociologist and cultural theorist in defence of the radical intellectual Walter Rodney. Hall’s speech challenged the role of the intellectual as separate from politics or subject to ‘value neutrality’. ‘This is a disastrous and crippling view’, argued Hall. ‘It utterly mistakes the role of the intellectual and the nature of intellectual work in its relation to politics’. A valuable re-assertion of the role of the intellectual as universities fall prey to neoliberalism.

When We Are All Enemies of the State A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.

Centreforglobaleducation Ni has published its 2025 Annual Report with an overview of our activities over the past year including: the delivery of education programmes for Palestinian and Syrian refugees in Lebanon; the publication of the online journal, Policy and Practice; the publication of two research reports; and delivery of online global education seminars. Check it out at:

https://www.centreforglobaleducation.com/sites/default/files/CGE%20Ann%20Rep%202025%20FINAL.pdf

Centreforglobaleducation Ni is inviting contributions to Issue 44 of our journal, Policy & Practice: A Development Education Review on the theme “Development Education and the Uses and Abuses of Knowledge”. Authors interesting in submitting to this issue should send the editor an abstract submission form on or before 5.00pm on Friday, 4 September 2026. The full call for contributors is available at: https://www.developmenteducationreview.com/submission-guidelines

A Belfast protest against the ongoing genocide in Gaza, approaching its third anniversary. 152 Palestinians were killed by Israeli occupation forces in Gaza in July, the highest monthly toll this year.

The Irish government has refused study visas to students from Gaza who are due to take up college scholarships in Ireland this September. The reasons for declining these visas include:

- not supplying original bank statements;
- a failure to account for gaps in their education;
- and a failure to supply strong evidence that they will return home.

How can any government expect this kind of documentary evidence from students in Gaza which has been decimated in Israel's genocide? The Minister for Justice, Jim O'Callaghan, should reverse this decision and award the visas without delay.

Concern over study visa refusal rate for Gazan students Concern is growing in Irish universities over a high rate of refusal of study visas to students in Gaza who are due to take up college scholarships in Ireland this September.

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey used occupied land as a film set. That feels like a betrayal.

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey used occupied land as a film set. That feels like a betrayal | Mohamed Sleiman Labat The decision to shoot in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara, where the Indigenous people can’t tell their stories without fear of imprisonment, helps erase our own brutal journey

Applications for the STAND Changemakers Academy 2026 are open! The Changemakers Academy is an immersive three-month programme for students and recent graduates, this year themed around Peace and Reconciliation. The programme is co-funded by PEACEPLUS, a fund established specifically to foster cross-border relationships and support peace and reconciliation across Northern Ireland and the border counties of Ireland. Full details and applications at stand.ie/what-we-do/stand-changemakers-academy.

The Durham miners' Gala 2026. Joining a trade union has never been so important.