Education

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Academic Freedom: The Fall of the Last Bastion of Democracy

by Mohamed Khodr December 10, 2011

It is outrageous, dishonorable, and unconstitutional actions taken by Judge Starr against Prof Marc Ellis, by eliminating his courses, shutting down his department, and investigation on whether Prof Ellis’ writing against ISRAELI policies is anathema to the Jewish Christian Zionist’s standard of “thou shall not speak against Israel.”

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How is Palestine and Arab Jews are presented in Israeli School Books (A MUST VIEW)

by Haitham Sabbah December 4, 2011

Prof. Nurit Peled-Elhanan analyzes the presentation of images, maps, layouts and use of language in History, Geography and Civic Studies textbooks, and reveals how the books marginalize Palestinians, legitimize Israeli military massacres against Palestinians and reinforce Jewish-Israeli territorial identity.

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Palestine’s future – its students – must be set free

by Stuart Littlewood September 13, 2011

Israel’s determined effort to prevent the creation of educated Palestinian cadres through the systematic repression, harassment and ill-treatment of Palestinian students and the disruption of their education.

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A thousand-and-one reasons why Palestine must get independence

by Stuart Littlewood September 8, 2011

New report from Bethlehem University shows that academic staff had been attacked again by Israeli squatters. Palestinian universities suffer the severest restrictions in delivering knowledge.

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Spotlight on Occupied Palestine

by Lawrence Davidson August 16, 2011

Lawrence Davidson argues that while leveling charges of incitement at the Palestinian educational system, Israelis themselves have been practicing on their own children a form of indoctrination that vilifies Palestinians and Arabs.

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State Department Warns Students Against Discussing WikiLeaks on Facebook, Twitter

by SR Editor December 5, 2010

A State Department official warned students at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs this week that discussing WikiLeaks on Facebook or Twitter could endanger their employment prospects.

The official, a former student of the school, called the career services office of his alma mater to advise students not to post links to WikiLeaks documents, nor to make comments on social networks such as Twitter and Facebook, as “engaging in these activities would call into question [a student's] ability to deal with confidential information, which is part of most positions with the federal government,” he was quoted as saying in an e-mail sent to students by the career services office on Tuesday.

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Desmond Tutu: We Must Boycott and Isolate Israeli Universities

by SR Editor September 26, 2010

The University of Johannesburg’s Senate will next week meet to decide whether to end its relationship with an Israeli institution, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, on the grounds of that university’s active support for and involvement in the Israeli military. Archbishop Desmond Tutu supports the move. He explains why. By Archbishop Desmond Tutu | Sabbah [...]

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Eight American Universities Say Yes to Apartheid

by Lawrence Davidson September 26, 2010

By Lawrence Davidson* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz A letter from Gaza appeared on the Web dated September 24, 2010. It was from a group of Gaza academics and students and sought to publicize the fact that eight American universities have recently signed agreements with various Israeli universities to offer U.S. students free semester long [...]

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Israeli and US Zionists mount ferocious attack on liberal academics in Israel

by SR Editor August 31, 2010

By Neve Gordon* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz On 31 May, I joined some 50 students and faculty members who gathered outside Ben-Gurion University of the Negev to demonstrate against the Israeli military assault on the flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza. In response, the next day a few hundred students marched towards the social [...]

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UC Berkeley Vote: A travesty of the “Democratic” process

by Debbie Menon May 2, 2010

By Debbie Menon* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Disappointing, but this shows the immense power that “the Organization” has to overturn popular demand against amazing majority numbers in the face of all reason and “democratic” principle. And, it also illustrates the cupidity, weakness, and failures of moral principles of elected representatives worldwide to stand up [...]

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UC Berkeley Speaks Out Against Divestment Bill Veto [Video]

by Haitham Sabbah April 17, 2010

Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFv7h_gfAfU April 16, 2010 – Almost one month after the UC Berkeley Student Senate voted 16-4 to divest from General Electric and United technologies because of their complicity in Israeli war crimes the Student Senate meets again to attempt to override a veto by President Will Smelko. The Meeting ended with the senate [...]

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Richard Falk Salute UC Berkeley Divestment

by Richard Falk April 14, 2010

April 13, 2010 To the Senate of the Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley (ASUC): I am writing to encourage renewed support for Senate Bill 118A (“A Bill in Support of ASUC Divestment from War Crimes”), including the override of ASUC President Will Smelko’s veto on March 24, 2010. The earlier passage of [...]

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu to UC Berkeley: Divesting is the Right Thing To Do

by Haitham Sabbah April 11, 2010

Sent from Emily Schaeffer, human right lawyer in Israel/Palestine, who asked Archbishop Tutu to write the letter. Dear Student Leaders at the University of California – Berkeley It was with great joy that I learned of your recent 16-4 vote in support of divesting your university’s money from companies that enable and profit from the [...]

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AIPAC is taking over the campuses

by Haitham Sabbah April 9, 2010

Just like they take over DC! Why bother with moral persuasion when you can just threaten to take U.S. government . . . everywhere? On March 18, UC Berkeley’s student senate voted 16 to 4 in favor of divesting from companies that profit from the Israeli occupation. A week later, in a move oddly predicted [...]

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An Open Letter to Margaret Atwood from Gaza: Don’t Stand on the Wrong Side of History

by Haitham Sabbah April 6, 2010

Besieged Gaza, Palestine April.4.2010 Dear Ms. Atwood, We are students from Gaza representing more than 10 academic institutions therein. Our grandparents are refugees who were expelled from their homes in the 1948 Nakba. They still have their keys locked up in their closets and will pass them on to their children, our parents. Many of [...]

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