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“Israeli Apartheid Week” Taking Place in Universities and Refugee Camps Across the Occupied West Bank
Posted by RORCoalition on Tue, 03/03/2009 – 10:42 March 2nd – March 8th 2009 Jerusalem, Ramallah, Bethlehem, Hebron, Jenin, Jericho, Nablus, Qalqilya, Tulkarem, Tubas For a detailed list of events, please see: http://apartheidweek.org BDS National Committee (BNC), Occupied Palestine, 26 February 2009 – The fifth international Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) – occurring in over 40 […]
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Movement to Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment From Israel
This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa 2/25/09 Guests: Professor Lisa Taraki, associate professor of Sociology at Birzeit university in Ramallah Dr John Chalcraft, lecturer in the History and Politics of Empire AT THE London School of Economics. A conversation Torange Yeghiazarian, Artistic Director of Golden Thread production. GTP is presenting […]
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Rebuilding the Islamic University of Gaza
Akram Habeeb and Marcy Newman, The Electronic Intifada, 16 February 2009 Since Israel’s bombing of the buildings housing scientific laboratories at the Islamic University of Gaza (IUG) on 28 December, the rubble that remains debunks Israeli claims that those labs were used to manufacture weapons. Of course such allegations are preposterous; indeed it would be […]
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Statement of support from Birzeit University students
Student Volunteers, R2E Campaign, Birzeit University , 17 February 2009 The Right to Education Campaign and the students of Birzeit University would like to commend and express support for students worldwide who have taken a principled stance against the ferocious Israeli bombardment of the Gaza strip for 22 days between December 2008 and January 2009. […]
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Palestinian University Suspends Contacts With Israeli Academics
February 3, 2009 | The Chronicle of Higher Education Jerusalem – The only Palestinian university to maintain ties with Israeli colleges and also to oppose international calls for a boycott of Israeli academics has suspended contacts with Israeli universities in the wake of the war in Gaza. Al Quds University, with 10,000 students on campuses […]
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Letter from the President of Islamic University of Gaza
Islamic University – Gaza ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Press Release “Where’s the Academic Outrage Over the Bombing of a University in Gaza?” Imagine: your university is bombarded with tons of explosives!! On Saturday December 27th, 2008, the Islamic University of Gaza (IUG) was ready to start the final exams of the fall semester for more than 20,000 students. […]
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Islamic University of Gaza was bombed
A video made this week by university students at the Islamic University of Gaza, which was bombed with American-made missiles and bombs.
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Jerusalem’s Al-Quds University to cut ties with Israeli academia
Date: 01 / 02 / 2009 Time: 19:18 | Ma’an News Al-Quds University will cease all forms of academic cooperation with Israeli academic institutions soon, the school”s board determined on Sunday. “In cooperation with all sides and under an accepted timetable,” the university will phase out programs and cooperation, the university board said in a […]
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Israeli Academic Institutes Join the Iron Fist Policy
Hundreds of Special Forces Brutally Suppress a Demonstration by Arab Students in Haifa University NDA Press Release 12.01.2009 Twelve students were arrested and many more assaulted and injured, one of whom hospitalized, during a demonstration arranged by the Arab students of Haifa University against the Gaza massacre. The University administration called for the interference of […]
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“Where’s the Academic Outrage Over the Bombing of a University in Gaza?”
The Islamic University (Gaza) | Press Release | January 25, 2009 On Saturday December 27th, 2008, the Islamic University of Gaza (IUG) was ready to start the final exams of the fall semester for more than 20,000 students (60% of whom are women) enrolled into its 10 colleges -education, religion, art, commerce, Shariah law, science, […]
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