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Right
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Birzeit
University
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| Resisting
Israeli Apartheid: Strategies and
Principles
International
Conference
5
December 2004, London |
| Proceedings
See
also articles in WRMEA,
Stop
the Wall Campaign, Electronic
Intifada & Open
Democracy
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for French Translations
Welcome
Address
Victoria
Brittain, UK
Partition
and Literature: Reflections. Palestine/Israel
and Nortehrn Ireland
Tom
Paulin, Oxford University, UK
The
Cultural and Academic Boycott of
Israel
Lisa
Taraki, Palestine
Divestment:
Isolating Apartheid Financially
Lawrence
Davidson, USA
The
Boycott Israeli Goods (BIG) Campaign
Betty
Hunter, Palestine Solidarity Campaign,
UK
Boycott
as Resistance: The Moral Dimension
Omar
Barghouti, Palestine
The
Meaning and Objectives of Boycott
Ilan Pappe, Israel
Resisting
Apartheid and the Charge of Anti-Semitism
Ur
Shlonsky, Switzerland
On
the Distinction between Institutions
and Individuals
Mona Baker, UK
Settler
Colonialism as Genocide: Implications
for a Strategy of Solidarity with
the Palestinians
John
Docker, Australia
Building
the Academic Boycott in Britain
Hilary
Rose, BRICUP,
UK
Stand
Up and Be Counted
Haim
Bresheeth, UK
The Role
of Students: Lessons from South
Africa
Ben
Young, UK
Summary
of the Day
Ilan
Pappe, Israel |
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SPEAK
OUT
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
2003 |
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And a vast paranoia sweeps
across the land
And America turns the attack
on its Twin Towers
Into the beginning of the Third
World War
The war with the Third World
And the terrorists in Washington
Are shipping out the young men
To the killing fields again
And no one speaks
And they are rousting out
All the ones with turbans
And they are flushing out
All the strange immigrants
And they are shipping all the
young men
To the killing fields again
And no one speaks
And when they come to round
up
All the great writers and poets
and painters
The National Endowment of the
Arts of Complacency
Will not speak
While all the young men
Will be killing all the young men
In the killing fields again
So now is the time for you to
speak
All you lovers of liberty
All you lovers of the pursuit of
happiness
All you lovers and sleepers
Deep in your private dream
Now is the time for you to speak
O silent majority
Before they come for you!
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| "There has
been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler,
Auschwitz, but was that their fault?
They see but one thing: we have
come and we have stolen their country.
Why would they accept that?" |
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| "The great
failure in what the US is doing
is that it tries to win a battle
through military power and brutality,
... But history has a way of coming
back, and it is the role of the
intellectual to bring it back." |
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Edward
Said, March 2003 |
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Give students in Gaza a chance to study! |
www.trappedingaza.org
Azhar, Samer, Zeinab, Wael and Izideen are just five out of hundreds of students trapped in the Gaza Strip, prevented from reaching the universities around the world to which they have been accepted. Since June 2007, Israel has imposed a nearly total closure on the Gaza Strip, violating the right to freedom of movement for 1.5 million Palestinian residents - including hundreds of students in danger of losing their chance to access study programs not available in Gaza.
Faced with pressure from world leaders outraged over the ban, Israeli officials declared that they would allow exit for just a few dozen students in Gaza holding "recognized scholarships" and seeking to access "friendly countries" but will continue to prevent hundreds of other students from reaching their studies. With each passing day, Gaza's most talented young people risk losing their places in universities abroad – and losing their chance to pursue their dreams of building a better future in the region.
This is the time to send a clear message to Israeli leaders:
The right to access education is universal!
Give students in Gaza a chance to study!
Greetings,
I write to ask you to join us in helping hundreds of Palestinian students in the Gaza Strip reach their universities abroad. Since June 2007, Gaza's borders have been closed, trapping 1.5 million people – including hundreds of talented young people accepted to universities abroad but prevented from reaching their studies. Last year, Israel permitted approximately 500 students and dependents to reach their studies abroad via "shuttle" services, but this year, Israel says that students will not be permitted to leave Gaza – except for a few dozen with prestigious scholarships to Western countries. Hundreds remain trapped, in danger of losing hard-won places at universities all over the world.
Today we are launching an online campaign aimed at recruiting international support for the right of Palestinian students from the Gaza Strip to reach their studies abroad. Please visit the campaign's mini-site: www.trappedingaza.org
The campaign is accessible in three languages - English, Arabic and Hebrew - and we hope to communicate it via e-mail, social networks, blogs and other websites.
How can you help?
1. Join the campaign by logging on to the mini-site and asking Israel's leaders to let students in Gaza access education;
2. Spread word of the campaign by forwarding this message to others;
3. Feature the banner on your website or blog. You may choose a banner to download at the Gisha website: http://www.gisha.org/
4. Click on the mini-site for further action.
Please join us in helping Gaza's young people exercise their right to freedom of movement and to access education – and to build a better future in the region.
Best Regards,
Sari Bashi, Executive Director
Gisha - Legal Center for Freedom of Movement
Do more:
* Forward this campaign link to your friends.
* Feature the campaign banner on your blog or web site.
* Write your country's leaders and ask them to raise the issue with their Israeli counterparts.
* Join our campaign on Facebook.
* If you are a member of an academic or student association, an activist group or another kind of organization - initiate a call, a letter, or an op-ed on behalf of your organization. Please contact us to receive information or for further ideas!
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