Israeli universities in the United States and Europe have deprived Palestinian students of their rights to freedom and are regarded as a "central pillar" of the occupying regime’s oppression against Palestinians, says a Jewish scholar.

The Israeli parliament introduced two bills that would bring Palestinian schools and staff in the 1948-occupied territories under stricter control.

Israeli forces have arrested 45 Birzeit University students after they visited the family of prisoner Muntaser al-Shalabi.