Belgian Universities for Palestine is a coordinating platform of researchers, teachers and staff who support Palestinian scholars, students, and education institutions through cooperation, mobilization and action.

HONORARY DOCTORS

  • Francesca Albanese (UA, UGent, VUB) – UN Special Rapporteur
  • Prof. Noura Erakat (UA) – International law expert
  • Agnes Callamard (VUB) – Secretary General of Amnesty International
  • Greta Thunberg (UMons) – Climate Justice and Palestine solidarity activist
  • John M Coetzee (VUB) – writer
  • Prof. Didier Fassin (ULB, UCLouvain) – Anthropologist
  • Prof. Martti Koskenniemi (VUB) – International lawyer and former diplomat
  • Prof. Izzeldin Abuelaish (UA, UCLouvain) – Physician
  • Prof. Seyla Benhabib (KUL, UCLouvain) – Philosopher
  • Rudi Vranckx (VUB, ULB) – Journalist
  • Prof. Stanly Plotkin (UA, ULB) – Physician and virologist
  • Prof. Anne Lacaton (ULB, UA) – Architect
  • Stephen Fry (KUL) – Actor and writer
  • Prof. Habib Ayeb (UGent) – Geographer
  • Alain Platel (UGent) – Director and choreographer
  • Sidi Larbi Charkaoui (UA) – Dancer and choreographer
  • Prof. Paul Gilroy (Uliège) – Sociologist
  • Prof. Diane Reay (UGent) – Sociologist
  • Brian Eno (UCLouvain) – Music producer
  • Ish Ait Hamou (UGent) – Author, director, screenwriter
  • Prof. Françoise Tulkens (UGent) – Former judge in the European Court of Human Rights
  • Prof. Nancy Fraser (ULiège) – Philosopher
  • Ken Loach (ULB) – Filmmaker
  • Prof. Jordi Sunyer (UHasselt) – Preventive Medicine and Public Health
  • Elia Suleiman (UCLouvain) – Filmproducer, director
  • Prof. Agnès van Zanten (ULB) – Sociologist
  • Frank Mugisha (UGent) – LGBTI human rights advocate
  • Prof. Clarice Garcia Borges Demétrio (UHasselt) – Biometrics
  • Prof. James Volmink (KUL) – Global Health
  • Prof. Mark Williams (KUL) – Psychologist
  • Marlène Dumas (UA) – Artist
  • Prof. Paul Michael Garrett (UGent) – Social work theorist
  • Prof. Michel Gevers (VUB) – Engineer
  • Prof. Nancy Kanwisher (KUL) – Neuroscientist
  • Prof. Erika Vlieghe (UHasselt) – Internist and infectiologist
  • Lize Spit (VUB) – writer
  • Prof. Ségolène Aymé (KUL) – Medical geneticist and epidemiologist
  • Prof. Olivier Hamant (UCLouvain) – biologist and biophysicist
  • Rob Hopkins (UNamur) – environmental activist and writer
  • Rik Devillé (UA) – Priest
  • Prof. Laurajane Smith (UA) – Heritage and Museum Studies
  • Prof. Luis M. Liz-Marzán (UA) – Chemist – nanoscience
  • Prof. Luca Bertolini (UA) – Urban planning
  • Prof. James Elkins (KUL) – Art historian
  • Prof. Christian Grönroos (UHasselt) – economist
  • Prof. Klaus Kümmerer (UGent) – Chemistry
  • Prof. Françoise Vergès (UMons) – Historian
  • Prof. Yves Sintomer (ULiège) – Political scientist
  • Christine Mahy (ULiège) – Secretary General and Policy Director of RWLP
  • Prof. Chris Butler (UA) – Medicine and Healthcare
  • Dominique Gauzin-Müller (ULiège) – Architect
  • Jaco Van Dormael (ULB) – Filmmaker
  • Prof. Stella Nkomo (UHasselt) – Human resource management
  • Lucretia Martel (KUL) – Filmmaker
  • Yves Moreau (UCLouvain) – Science and technology
  • Johan Simons (UGent) – Theater and opera director
  • Prof. Jan Rabaey (UA, UHasselt) – Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

4700+ signatures, 1100+ professors, 1800+ researchers, 1500+ students, 450+ administrative staff (on June 2, 2026)
For all signatures see here