Palestine Solidarity Platform HU is a coalition that came together in winter 2025 at Humboldt University Berlin (HU). It consists of students and student groups who share the goal of bringing their respective institutions’ complicity in Israel’s settler-colonialism, system of Apartheid and genocide to an end.
This complicity rests not only on supressing student protest, as seen between 2023-25. Back then HU filed criminal charges against their own students protesting the genocide of Palestinians and the physical destruction of every university in Gaza, which the university never even found adequate words for. But apart from suppression and imposing limitations on discourse and academic freedom, there is also a very material complicity through upholding cooperations with Israeli universities, though it has been proven many times that these are the backbone of the Israeli state’s violent apparatus.
In this regard, Palestine Solidarity Platform echoes the resolution that was formulated at the Academic Boycott Conference in January 2026 by dozens of student groups and organisations in Germany actively working towards an institutional boycott of complicit Israeli universities.
Therefore, we want to build broader coalitions with students and faculty at HU and beyond. This starts with organizing knowledge transfer, as we do with our current event, where we invited economist and political scientist Shir Hever from BIP e.V. (Bündnis für Gerechtigkeit zwischen Israelis und Palästinensern) to talk about Germany’s complicity in Israel’s crimes and the role of the university in this regard. In the near future, we want to organize a student assembly to raise the general political consciousness of the students towards Palestine and our universities’ role in legitimizing and enabling Israeli state violence against Palestinians, as well as opening paths to end it.
- Instagram: palestinesolidarityplatform.hu
- You can also contact PSP via email: psp-hu-berlin@proton.me
