Education

U.S. Withdraws Fulbright Grants to Palestinian students

by Haitham Sabbah May 31, 2008

Dear friends, Remind me again why anyone in their right mind would believe that the U.S. can bring a lasting peace to the region when they can’t even get six U.S.-bound students past an Israeli checkpoint? If I had to guess, I think Israel may change their stance on this one…using their infamous posture of [...]

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Documentary: Two Schools in Nablus

by Haitham Sabbah March 15, 2008

A MUST SEE! Education is a RIGHT!! I highly urge you all to watch this documentary about how Palestinians are struggling, NON- VIOLENTLY, to get a basic education and remain sane in this insane reality of Israeli occupation. Nablus is in the West Bank. Multiply what you see here by 100 and you can start [...]

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Real Israelis Don’t Shirk the Draft?!

by Haitham Sabbah February 13, 2008

By Connie Hackbarth, An aggressive public relations campaign against military draft evaders is currently being waged on billboards, television sets and computer screens throughout Israel. Entitled “Real Israelis Don’t Shirk the Draft,” the low point of this campaign is a brief video clip featuring secular, European Jewish Israelis in their early twenties, sitting around drinking [...]

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Palestinian children cut off from their homes

by Haitham Sabbah November 21, 2007

Video Transcript: Cameraman: What are you doing here? Girl: Going back home from school! Cameraman: Where are you going now? Girl: Home! Cameraman: Where is your home? Girl: Behind the Wall! Boy: My home is behind this wall. We study at Bet Nabal! Cameraman: What happened here today? Boy: They closed the passage, we are [...]

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Palestinian Folklore Dancing Banned in a US School

by Haitham Sabbah November 11, 2007

Photo by: El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe Now this is the most disgusting piece of news I’ve read today: OLD SAYBROOK, Conn. – Officials in Old Saybrook have canceled performances by a Palestinian dance troupe after getting a complaint that it is offensive to Jews and Israel. The decision involves planned performances at the town’s [...]

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NO Hebrew, Arabic mix

by Haitham Sabbah October 24, 2007

Apartheid in the so called democracy of Israel, which the mainstream media totally ignores… the hypocritical New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, CNN, ABC, CBS… See no apartheid, hear no apartheid, mention no apartheid… Image by: Carlos Latuff Of course it IS possible, that none of these newspapers have ever had a “journalist” who [...]

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St. Thomas University president reverses ban on Tutu

by Haitham Sabbah October 12, 2007

We commend the president of St. Thomas University in reversing his decision and inviting Bishop Desmond Tutu to speak (Israel apologists lost this round). Bishop Tutu is a Nobel Peace Laureate who suffered for his work against South African apartheid now speaks eloquently, with humility and passion, on Israeli apartheid. Thanks to many people (including [...]

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Archbishop Tutu banned in a USA University, tagged as Anti-Semitic

by Haitham Sabbah October 4, 2007

Now this is NOT a satire post! Archbishop Tutu barred by U. of St Thomas because of criticism of Israel [via: Muzzle Watch] Rumors have been circulating for some time that Archbishop Desmond Tutu was banned by the University of St Thomas in Minnesota because of statements he made that some consider anti-Semitic. Now it’s [...]

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Satire: Harvard law school expels star student for ‘holocaust denial’

by Haitham Sabbah October 3, 2007

[Via: Wake Up From Your Slumber] Satire: Harvard law school expels star student for ‘holocaust denial’ CAMBRIDGE, Mass (AP) What began as a minor citation in a scholarly work ended up causing Noor Aljiem to be expelled from Harvard Law School. Aljiem, a third-year student majoring in criminal law, submitted a paper that examined Nazi [...]

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Updated: Israeli Court refuses to help Gazan resume studies in Britain

by Haitham Sabbah October 1, 2007

University of Bradford student trapped in Gaza Image by: Benjamin Heine Urgent Appeal: Support Khaled al-Mudallal’s Right to Education Khaled al-Mudallal is a Palestinian and a Business and Management student at the University of Bradford. He is currently trapped in Gaza due to the restrictions on freedom of movement imposed by Israel. Khaled needs to [...]

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Pluto Press Under Attack by Israel Lobby

by Haitham Sabbah September 24, 2007

Pressure Builds on University of Michigan Pluto Press Under Attack by Israel Lobby By ROGER van ZWANENBERG About three weeks ago Pluto books and the University of Michigan Press – our US distributor – came under attack by Stand With Us (a Zionist lobby group) who were objecting to the publication of Overcoming Zionism by [...]

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For security reasons, Israel bans paper from Gaza schools

by Haitham Sabbah August 25, 2007

Not a joke, but yes sick… The Israeli government forbade the entrance of paper for making text books to children from Gaza Strip, denounced Palestinian-Israeli Information-Investigation Center (CIIPI). A released issued by the institution revealed that Palestinian children will attend the classrooms in September without their pens, pencils, books and more if the military command [...]

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Why academic boycotts make sense?

by Haitham Sabbah August 16, 2007

Not a single Israeli academic institution complains about these atrocities: High Court has been wrongly besmirched [By Amira Hass, Haaretz]

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Arabic Teachers Needs Arabic Teaching

by Haitham Sabbah October 29, 2005

I could not resist but blog this. Background: Nooreldin (my eldest son), is now in Grade II. He goes to a private English school, which obviously teaches everything in English, except Arabic and Islamic are in Arabic of course. Anyway, tonight he was studying for his tomorrow Arabic exam. He came across a word he [...]

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