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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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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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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Palestinian classes held at Israeli army checkpoint

by Haitham Sabbah March 18, 2010

Israeli soldiers prevent students and others from crossing a checkpoint between their homes and schools on the edge of the West Bank city of Qalqiliya on 17 March 2010. Some teachers used the checkpoint as a makeshift classroom and held studies despite the closure, which was linked to clashes elsewhere in the occupied territories. A [...]

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How Much Military Aid to Israel…Do You Provide?

by Haitham Sabbah February 9, 2010

Between 2009-2018, the United States is scheduled to give Israel–the largest recipient of U.S. aid–$30 billion in military aid. Through its illegal 42-year military occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip, Israel misuses U.S. weapons in violation of U.S. law to kill and injure Palestinian civilians, destroy Palestinian civilian infrastructure, blockade [...]

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Uphill battle for academic freedom in US universities

by SR Editor January 15, 2010

By Nora Barrows-Friedman* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz In 2009, Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, became the first American higher educational institution to successfully pressure its Board of Trustees to divest from Israel-tied mutual funds. The victory came three decades after the college similarly disinvested from funds linked to apartheid South Africa. Across North America, [...]

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Israeli army confiscates truck, forcing children and teachers to walk an hour to homes

by Haitham Sabbah December 23, 2009

Masafer Yatta/South Hebron Hills – On Sunday, 20 December 2009, the Israeli army disrupted transportation of children and teachers from Al-Fakheit school to their homes. The Palestinian driver, accompanied by one CPTer, was on his way to pick up children and teachers after school when, at about 1:00 p.m. soldiers in a Humvee stopped the [...]

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Rules of human decency apply to Israelis too

by Stuart Littlewood December 11, 2009

A dose of their own (academic) medicine might help the message sink in By Stuart Littlewood* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Poor Berlanty. What did she do to deserve this crushing blow to her hopes and life chances? The Israeli High Court has denied her justice – again – and prevented Berlanty Azzam returning to [...]

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Propaganda disguised as academic inquiry at the University of Illinois

by SR Editor December 6, 2009

By David Green* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Chancellor Richard Herman of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign recently resigned due to his cooperation with political influence-peddlers seeking to gain admission for less qualified but privileged applicants. But Herman also participated in a more acceptable form of political corruption — publicly displayed with the invocation [...]

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How the “most moral army in the world” wages war on students (Part 2)

by Stuart Littlewood November 6, 2009

How the “Most Moral Army in the World” Wages War on Students (Part 1) By Stuart Littlewood * The Israeli embassy in London has finally made its excuses for the “senseless outrage” of preventing Berlanty Azzam, a fourth-year student of Bethlehem University, from continuing her studies and robbing her of her degree. She was arrested [...]

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