The Jerusalem Governorate warned of a new policy adopted by the Israeli occupation authorities against Palestinian students, by preventing them from reaching their universities.

And the Jerusalem Governorate stated, in a press statement today, Sunday, that the occupation authorities removed the two students, Baraa Hatem Fiqha from Tulkarm Governorate, and Batoul Iyad Dar Asi from the city of Ramallah, from Al-Quds University in Abu Dis, east of occupied Jerusalem, under the pretext of practicing union work inside the university, which means depriving them from continuing their university education, in a systematic racist policy against education and its institutions in Jerusalem.

It added that this racist decision comes at a time as education in Jerusalem is fought against, and millions of dollars are allocated for the sake of Israelization  and Judaization it, as the Minister of Finance in the extremist occupation government, Bezalel Smotrich, announced several days ago during his disclosure of the five-year plan to Judaize Jerusalem and education there, while The occupation authorities provide facilities to attract Palestinian students, especially Jerusalemites, to study in its affiliated schools and Hebrew universities.

The Governor described this decision as "racist," considering what is happening as a blatant and unacceptable interference in our national universities, where we are proud of practicing student union work, that is guaranteed by the Palestinian constitution, and our national educational institutions are keen on it.

He called on international human rights and human rights institutions in the world, especially UNESCO, to denounce and reject this decision, and to put pressure on Israel, the occupying power, to retract it, and all decisions related to the Judaization of education in Jerusalem, especially since international conventions, especially the Fourth Geneva Convention, that stipulates the freedom of peoples under occupation to choose their curricula and teachers, in line with their customs, traditions and religions, without interference by the occupying power.