Overview

• On April 8, 2025, Sciences Po Strasbourg's Council of Administration voted to maintain its partnership with Israel's Reichman University, defying an internal committee's recommendation to terminate it.
• Pro-Palestinian student activists have resumed protests, denouncing the partnership as complicity in alleged war crimes in Gaza, and have labeled it 'the partnership of shame.'
• Violent confrontations followed the decision, with the director of the IEP, Jean-Philippe Heurtin, and a professor being harassed and attacked by protesters.
• Campus operations have been severely disrupted, with blockades preventing access to buildings and forcing classes to shift to remote formats.
• Further demonstrations and potential legal challenges are anticipated as tensions between students, faculty, and administration remain unresolved.