In March, a virtual memorial came up for Palestinian researchers killed by Israeli attacks
by Piyush Mathur
In a grim milestone for a genocidal planet, a website dedicated to recognising and remembering Palestinian researchers killed by Israeli attacks since October 7, 2023, came up earlier this year. The website provides an updated list of these researchers and their brief biographies—including their photographs, university and disciplinary affiliations, academic achievements, student tributes, and details regarding where and how they were killed.
Put together by academics from Hashemite University, the American University in Cairo, New York University, the College of New Jersey, and Georgetown University, the website, titled ‘Palestine Scholars’, is styled somewhat like a physical memorial; it claims to remember those scholars who have been ‘murdered in the Gaza Genocide’.
This virtual memorial has a photograph of Fatima Ali Abu Owdah’s sand-hued ink drawing, How Alone You Were (2025), as its inscription.
Owdah’s drawing originally includes lines in Arabic from Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’s book In Praise of the High Shadow (Madīḥ al-ẓẓil al-‘ālī). Below the drawing’s photograph, the memorial renders Darwish’s lines into English, as if to serve as an epitaph.
The website’s Unique Resource Locator (URL) is as follows: https://rememberinggazascholars.org/. The website includes the information about the killed researchers in the Portable Document Format (PDF), which can be downloaded via this link.
As of today, the PDF document indicates that Palestine has lost 180 researchers to Israel’s attacks.
In response to a query from Thoughtfox, Judith E. Tucker—Professor Emerita, Georgetown University, and a member of the team behind this memorial—noted that the website went online on March 19, 2026, and will be updated ‘from time to time.’ Welcoming ‘additional information about scholars we have included and/or scholars who appear to be missing from the archive’, Tucker drew attention to the website’s contact form, which people could use to communicate with the team.
Notably, in August 2025, the University of Toronto’s chapter of the Faculty for Palestine (F4P) network had launched a pledge called ‘We will not stop talking about Palestine’—an effort that was anticipated by the Scholar’s Statement supporting Palestine Action; A Public Call for Accountability at the Harvard Education Publishing Group; and the petition to end the European Society of Criminology’s (ESC) complicity in Israel’s crimes against Palestine. The situation in Palestine, and lately in Lebanon, remains grim, however; and much of the rest of the Middle East is presently trapped in a US-Israel war on Iran, and Iran’s acts of retaliations against American assets across the region.