Sari Nusseibeh, the president of the Palestinian Al-Quds University, resigned from his position three days after a rally in support of Hamas at its eastern Jerusalem campus.
The president of Brandeis University is in talks with officials at the Palestinian Al-Quds University to re-establish a partnership between the schools that was suspended over an Islamic Jihad rally.
More than 1,600 alumni and students of Brandeis University and others with ties to the institution have signed an online petition protesting pay to former university president Jehuda Reinharz.