{"id":93673,"date":"2017-06-12T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=93673"},"modified":"2017-06-10T19:14:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T18:14:09","slug":"over-60-birzeit-students-held-in-israeli-prisons-for-political-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/06\/over-60-birzeit-students-held-in-israeli-prisons-for-political-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 60 Birzeit Students Held in Israeli Prisons for Political Reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Palestine Monitor<em>, political arrests at Bir Zeit uni; <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Arrested by the PNA, <\/em>Electronic Intifada<em>; <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Palestinian students\u2019 campaign to end political arrests of students and to free those held on administrative detention.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_93674\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kifah-quzmar-palestine-israel.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93674\" class=\"wp-image-93674\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kifah-quzmar-palestine-israel-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kifah-quzmar-palestine-israel-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kifah-quzmar-palestine-israel-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kifah-quzmar-palestine-israel-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kifah-quzmar-palestine-israel.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-93674\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student Kifah Quzmar who has been arrested by the PNA police (2016) and is now held under administrative detention \u2013 along with 60 other Palestinian students, by the Israeli military.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.palestinemonitor.org\/details.php?id=8ggw99a15802y7pmiqmk4j\" >Stifling political activism on Palestinian campuses<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The case of Kifah Quzmar<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>By Nadia Sa\u2018ad, Palestine Monitor<\/em><br \/>\n<em>May 29, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kifah Quzmar, a student at Bir Zeit University in the West Bank, was finishing his last year of a degree in business administration when he was arrested on March 7 whilst returning from Jordan via the Allenby crossing. The Israeli authorities communicated no charge against him.<\/p>\n<p>He was then interrogated for 20 days and denied a lawyer. On March 26 he started a hunger strike to protest his detention. His case then gained international attention but Quzmar is actually one of sixty-plus BZU students currently imprisoned by Israeli Forces.<\/p>\n<p>On April 3, the Israeli military court of Ofer ordered 6 months of administrative detention without a charge or trial for Quzmar. This is the maximum length of administrative, however it is continually renewable.<\/p>\n<p>The organization, Samidoun- Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, released a statement regarding the detention of Quzmar, in which they called for the international community to join in solidarity with Quzmar and all Palestinian students detained by the occupying forces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe imprisonment of Palestinian students by the occupation is a clear breach of international, human rights and humanitarian law and academic freedom as a whole,\u201d the statement argued.<\/p>\n<p>Students that are actively involved in campus politics are often targeted and held as political prisoners due to their involvement in \u201cprohibited organizations\u201d, along with their personal politics off campus. Arrests normally spike as annual student elections approach.<\/p>\n<p>According to Anan Odeh, who was Quzmar\u2019s lawyer before the interrogation process, neither he nor Quzmar knew the reasons behind his detention. \u201cThey [Israel] don\u2019t give any information besides that he is detained for suspicions that he is a security threat to Israel,\u201d Odeh told Palestine Monitor. \u201cThey will use this reason for everyone and it\u2019s never specific. When and if they convict him then they release his file,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Odeh mentioned that Quzmar was asked by his interrogators: \u201cYou are a suspected threat to Israeli security, what do you think about that?\u201d Odeh continued, \u201cThe information regarding his arrest is in a confidential file that they are not required to release, not even to his lawyer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny student can be arrested for being involved in political blocs, because they [the blocs] are forbidden according to Israeli law,\u201d Odeh explained. \u201cBut I also represent some students who organize non-political events, such as large parties for other students, teachers or with their departments. They have been arrested\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to Israeli Military Law, specified under 1945 (Defence) Emergency Regulations and the 1948 Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance, it is illegal for students to be members of a student bloc affiliated with a political party deemed as a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<p>On May 10, as student council elections began at Birzeit, students involved in political blocs were on high alert. During this time, students actively involved in the student council or supporting political blocs on campus are often the target of arbitrary arrests and on-campus raids. For the third year in a row, the Islamic bloc, a Hamas affiliated list of candidates, won the majority of seats at the council.<\/p>\n<p>Last January, Israeli forces held a night raid at BZU and confiscated computers, leaflets, flags, and brochures from the Student Union Offices most of which belonged to the Islamic Bloc.<\/p>\n<p>Birzeit is known as being one of the most diverse campuses in Palestine, as it is situated in the heart of the occupied West Bank. BZU has long been an important institution when it comes to youth activism. Its name is therefore also linked to subsequent arrests.<\/p>\n<p>Samidoun\u2019s statement calling for Quzmar\u2019s freedom was signed and endorsed by a multitude of organizations abroad expressing solidarity with Quzmar and Palestinian students, including Students for Justice in Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace and Palestinian Youth Movement.<\/p>\n<p>Bringing greater awareness to the issue of Palestinian prisoners, a 40-day mass hunger strike held by more than 1,000 Palestinian political prisoners ended last Saturday after some of the prisoners\u2019 demands were met.<\/p>\n<p>Quzmar, alongside 500 other Palestinians, remain in administrative detention, without knowing the charges against them, and without access to a fair trial.<\/p>\n<p>*********************************<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/content\/jailed-calling-palestinian-authority-rotten\/16871\" >Jailed for calling the Palestinian Authority rotten<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>By Budour Youssef Hassan, Electronic Intifada<br \/>\nMay 28, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kifah Quzmar was at a caf\u00e9 in downtown <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/tags\/ramallah\" >Ramallah<\/a> when a few men followed him to the toilet. After grabbing him, they dragged him out to a car with a yellow Israeli license plate.<\/p>\n<p>The men, it soon transpired, were undercover police working for the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/tags\/palestinian-authority\" >Palestinian Authority<\/a>. They apprehended Quzmar at the West Bank caf\u00e9 on 11 May because of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10156774581405368&amp;set=a.10152170102390368.914652.703285367&amp;type=3&amp;theater\" >comments<\/a> he had made on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Following the arrest of his friend Seif al-Idrissi by PA forces in April, Kifah wrote on the social media website: \u201cDo you know why the <em>mukhabarat<\/em> [PA intelligence service] is a rotten agency? Because the entire PA is rotten.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to his brother, Anan, this is not the first time that Kifah had been arrested because of something he wrote on Facebook. \u201cThey interrogated him a couple of years ago for a joke mocking the PA which he wrote during a snowstorm,\u201d Anan said.<\/p>\n<p>Kifah was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/samidoun.net\/2016\/05\/palestinian-student-kifah-quzmar-freed-on-bail-from-pa-detention\/\" >released on bail<\/a> one week after his arrest this month. His lawyer, Anas al-Barghouti, said Kifah could face charges of insulting the PA. No charges have yet been issued.<\/p>\n<p>Kifah is a business student at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/tags\/birzeit-university\" >Birzeit University<\/a> in the occupied West Bank. He is also a member of the Democratic Progressive Student Pole, the largest left-wing organization in the university.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Moral bankruptcy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Palestinian scholar Abdel Sattar Qassem argued that such arrests expose the moral bankruptcy and illegitimacy of the PA and its leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Qassem, a political science professor at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/tags\/najah-university\" >An-Najah University<\/a> in the West Bank city of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/tags\/nablus\" >Nablus<\/a>, has himself been <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/content\/palestinian-authority-arrests-dissident-professor\/15526\" >recently arrested<\/a> for speaking out against the PA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolitical arrests have been a PA policy since its establishment and they witness increases whenever the PA sees itself under threat,\u201d Qassem told The Electronic Intifada. \u201cThey target leftists and Islamists and anyone who is critical of the PA and its security coordination with the Israeli occupation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Qassem said that political persecutions and arrests by the PA are designed to serve two intertwined interests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey seek to protect the Israeli occupation and prevent any potential uprising against it and they also endeavor to cement the <em>status quo<\/em> and maintain the privileges that the PA has by preventing any potential uprising against it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Many of those regularly arrested by the PA are known for activism against the Israeli occupation, according to Qassem. Arresting them, he argued, sends a message to the PA\u2019s backers in Arab and Western governments that the PA will not allow another intifada.<\/p>\n<p>When an uprising against the occupation began in October last, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/tags\/mahmoud-abbas\" >Mahmoud Abbas<\/a>, the PA\u2019s leader, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/blogs\/ali-abunimah\/israel-mahmoud-abbas-join-forces-against-palestinian-protests\" >said<\/a> that he wished to avoid an \u201cescalation\u201d with Israel. He has previously <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/blogs\/ali-abunimah\/mahmoud-abbas-collaboration-israeli-army-secret-police-sacred\" >described<\/a> the PA\u2019s cooperation with the Israeli military and intelligence as \u201csacred.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most Palestinians remain reluctant to speak about the issue of political arrests by the PA.<\/p>\n<p>While Kifah Quzmar\u2019s family and friends were prepared to talk about his case, circulating the Facebook post that led to his arrest, other former detainees at PA prisons have avoided publicity for fear of retribution.<\/p>\n<p>Reliable data about the number of people arrested on political grounds by the PA are very hard to find.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PA always denies that it holds political prisoners, regularly framing those arrests as either criminal or security,\u201d Anas al-Barghouti, Kifah\u2019s lawyer who also works for the Palestinian prisoner support group <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/tags\/addameer\" >Addameer<\/a>, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe always struggle to compile names and approximate numbers of political detainees because the PA always tries to keep those facts censored,\u201d Muhannad al-Azzeh, an Addameer spokesperson, told The Electronic intifada. \u201cBut from the information that we have managed to compile, there has been a noticeable increase in [detention] over the last few months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cArrest season\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The increase can be linked to the beginning of student union election campaigns in universities.<\/p>\n<p>Students affiliated to the Islamic Bloc have been the main targets; they have been pursued by both Israeli and PA forces. Leftist students \u2014 particularly those competing with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/tags\/fatah\" >Fatah<\/a>, the dominant party in the PA \u2014 have also been targeted, albeit to a lesser degree.<\/p>\n<p>Many Palestinian student activists describe the months preceding university elections as \u201carrest season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arrests of students by the PA, either from their homes or university dorms, hit their peak in March just a month before the elections in most West Bank universities.<\/p>\n<p>A number of female students, especially those affiliated to the Islamic Bloc, have been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Alaa Manasra, a postgraduate student at Hebron University, was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.palinfo.com\/news\/2016\/3\/15\/%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%81-%D9%85%D8%B2%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%AC-%D9%84%D8%B7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B6%D9%81%D8%A9\" >arrested<\/a> on her way to class on 7 March this year. She was released after seven hours of interrogation that focused on her activism.<\/p>\n<p>Another female student at Hebron University, who spoke on condition of anonymity, believes that there is direct cooperation between the PA and Israel in targeting students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PA basically does Israel\u2019s dirty work, breaking into our homes, confiscating our laptops and trying to stifle any form of activism inside universities to guarantee that the Fatah-affiliated student groups win the elections,\u201d the student said.<\/p>\n<p>The student believes that the arrest campaign has been more aggressive this year in response to the unexpected wins by the Islamic Bloc at Birzeit University, a traditional stronghold of Fatah\u2019s youth wing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Treated as enemy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Palestinian concerns that the PA is directly coordinating its activities with Israel were reinforced by the arrest of three youths who were allegedly planning an attack on Israeli military targets.<\/p>\n<p>Bassel al-Araj, Haytham Siyaj and Muhammad Harb were <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addameer.org\/news\/five-palestinians-detained-and-tortured-palestinian-security-forces\" >arrested<\/a> by the PA in April.<\/p>\n<p>Anas al-Barghouti, lawyer for the three men, said that the PA tries to spin such arrests in a positive manner. \u201cThey claim that the arrests were to \u2018protect\u2019 those youths, which is quite ironic,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>It is also quite common for Palestinians to be imprisoned by Israel shortly after being released by the PA.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_93675\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Khalil-Canaan.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93675\" class=\"wp-image-93675 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Khalil-Canaan-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Khalil-Canaan-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Khalil-Canaan-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Khalil-Canaan.jpg 539w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-93675\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Khalil Canaan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A recent case in point is that of Khalil Canaan, who was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lajnat.mo3taqalin\/posts\/1006147499467093\" >arrested<\/a> by Israeli forces from his home in Aida refugee camp beside the West Bank city of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/tags\/bethlehem\" >Bethlehem<\/a> about a week ago. He had only been released from PA detention two days earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Palestinians often say that being arrested by the PA is worse than being arrested by Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt hurts to be arrested and persecuted by your own people, by those who claim to represent the Palestinian cause,\u201d Qassem said, referring to his personal experience of repeated spells in PA jails. \u201cCriticism of the PA is labeled as treason and they treat you as an enemy for opposing Abbas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails receive considerable support, regardless of their political affiliation. Meanwhile, Palestinians jailed by the PA receive little solidarity, said Qassem, despite the terrible conditions they face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbbas has repeatedly stated that he\u2019d do anything to prevent the eruption of a third intifada,\u201d Qassem said. \u201cThe ongoing repression and arrests demonstrate his commitment to protect Israel and his own status.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Budour Youssef Hassan is a Palestinian writer and law graduate based in occupied Jerusalem. Blog: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/budourhassan.wordpress.com\/\" >budourhassan.wordpress.com<\/a>. Twitter: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Budour48\" >@Budour48<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>*************************************<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSeetFySFRMCIEFn59c7jEheUcq0sChRTr1-NO135Xt8hNkjTQ\/viewform\" >Sign On: Free Kifah Quzmar and All Palestinian Student Prisoners<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This call out is open for ORGANIZATIONAL endorsements. Thank you!We, the undersigned student organizations, groups, associations and unions urge all organizations to express solidarity with hunger striker, student and prisoner Kifah Quzmar and his fellow imprisoned Palestinian students and sign this statement:<\/p>\n<p>Kifah Quzmar, 27, and in his last year of study of Business Administration at BirZeit University, was arrested by Israeli authorities on 7th March when returning from a trip at the Karameh\/Allenby crossing from Jordan. As of now, no charges or allegations have been made against him. On 26 March he demanded to either be charged with something or released, but instead Israel extended his interrogation for eight additional days. To protest this injustice, the same day he started a hunger strike demanding his release.<\/p>\n<p>The imprisonment of Palestinian students by the occupation is a clear breach of international, human rights and humanitarian law and academic freedom as a whole. The massive use of imprisonment in Palestine is a key weapon of settler colonialism as it attempts to suppress and eliminate Palestinian resistance. We condemn the Israeli Occupation for its grave violations of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Arts. 14, 17, 18, 19, 22), through its use of imprisonment and of the rights of students to education and to full and active political participation. At BirZeit University alone, 60 Palestinian students are denied access to education because they are held as political prisoners in Israeli jails. Students are repeatedly targeted for arrests, especially as annual student elections approach; activists involved with student political blocs are ordered to administrative detention or accused of support for \u201cprohibited organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We, the undersigned student organizations, groups, associations and unions, demand the immediate release of Kifah Quzmar and all Palestinian political prisoners. We also demand an immediate end to the imprisonment of Palestinian students, which is a direct impediment of the right to education (International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Art. 13). At last, we call upon all education institutions, companies and governments to comply with Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) in order to pressure Israel in complying to International Law.<\/p>\n<p>We call upon all organizations to express solidarity with Kifah Quzmar and his fellow imprisoned Palestinian students and sign this statement. We refuse to remain silent about the ongoing injustice in Palestine and we stand in solidarity with all Palestinians who are deprived of their unalienable rights of freedom, justice and return.<\/p>\n<p>Palestinian students are being denied their education by the Israeli occupation. International solidarity can help to defend them!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What can you do?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sign up your organization to this statement.<\/li>\n<li>Organize a protest or action at an Israeli consulate and\/or university\/community square, urging freedom for Kifah Quzmar and Palestinian student prisoners. Highlight Kifah Quzmar and fellow Palestinian students in actions for Palestinian Prisoners\u2019 Day, 17 April, and the Week of Action, 14-24 April.<\/li>\n<li>Organize a table in a student center or a one-day hunger strike in support of Kifah Quzmar. Fellow students must know about the persecution faced by Palestinian students.<\/li>\n<li>Organizations, associations and student unions and groups: write a letter or a statement in support of Kifah, or take a group photo with a sign that says, \u201cFree Kifah Quzmar!\u201d and use #FreeKifahQuzmar on social media. Share your statements and photos with us on Facebook, or email <a href=\"mailto:samidoun@samidoun.net\">samidoun@samidoun.net<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Join the Boycott, Divest and Sanction Campaign to build the boycott of Israel, including the academic boycott of Israeli institutions. Israeli academic institutions are complicit in the system of imprisonment and occupation, while Palestinian students are denied their normal functioning and right to education by ongoing arrest campaigns.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Signed organizations:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Al-Awda, PRRC<br \/>\nAmerican Muslims for Palestine \u2013 NJ<br \/>\nAnakbayan New York<br \/>\nAnakbayan New Jersey<br \/>\nArab-European Student Association \u2013 ULB<br \/>\nAsociaci\u00f3n Palestina Biladi<br \/>\nAssociation des Universitaires pour le Respect du Droit International en Palestine (AURDIP)<br \/>\nAssociation of Palestinian Community in Scotland<br \/>\nAWAke International Student Organisation for World Affairs<br \/>\nBDS Berlin<br \/>\nBDS Campaign \u2013 University of Manchester<br \/>\nCharityCo-EUCSA<br \/>\nCoalition Against Israeli Apartheid<br \/>\nComit\u00e9 BDS-ULB<br \/>\nConcordia Student Union \u2013 CSU<br \/>\nCornell Students for Justice in Palestine<br \/>\nCoup Pour Coup 31<br \/>\nDerry Branch \u2013 Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign<br \/>\nEdinburgh University Communist Society<br \/>\nEstudiantes por la Justicia en Palestina \u2013 Madrid<br \/>\nExeter Palestine Action<br \/>\nFlorida State University Students for Justice in Palestine<br \/>\nFordham University Students for Justice in Palestine<br \/>\nFree Leonard Peltier!<br \/>\nFreedom Archives<br \/>\nFreedom Road Socialist Organization<br \/>\nFronte Palestina \u2013 Italy<br \/>\nGentse studenten voor Palestina- Vrije Universiteit Gent \/ Hogeschool Gent<br \/>\nGeneral Union of Palestine Students \u2013 (GUPS Aix-Marseille)<br \/>\nGeneral Union of Palestine Students \u2013 (GUPS Paris)<br \/>\nGeneral Union of Palestine Students \u2013 San Francisco State Univeristy<br \/>\nHuman Rights March<br \/>\nIndependent Jewish Voices Canada<br \/>\nInminds, UK<br \/>\nIreland supporting Palestinian youth<br \/>\nJericho Movement<br \/>\nJeunesses Libertaires Belgique<br \/>\nJewish Voice for Peace, San Diego<br \/>\nJohn Jay Students for Justice in Palestine<br \/>\nKing\u2019s BDS Network<br \/>\nManchester Boycott Israel Group<br \/>\nMerton PSC<br \/>\nNational Students for a Democratic Society<br \/>\nNew York City Students for Justice in Palestine<br \/>\nNot In Our Name (NION), Toronto, Canada<br \/>\nPalestina Rossa \u2013 Italy<br \/>\nPalestine Solidarity Committee \u2013 Austin<br \/>\nPalestine Solidarity Committee \u2013 University of Texas<br \/>\nPalestine Solidarity \u2013 Philippines<br \/>\nPalestinian Youth Movement \u2013 United States<br \/>\nPeople for Peace, London (Ontario)<br \/>\nPlate-forme Charleroi-Palestine<br \/>\nPopular Resistance of Mississippi<br \/>\nProgressive Student Labor Front \u2013 Palestine<br \/>\nRiseUp<br \/>\nSamidoun Palestinian Prisoners Solidarity Network<br \/>\nSolidarity for Palestinian Human Rights at the University of Western Ontario<br \/>\nStrathclyde Students for Palestine<br \/>\nStudent Labor Action Coalition<br \/>\nStudenten voor Rechtvaardigheid in Palestina \u2013 Universiteit van Amsterdam \/ Hogeschool van Amsterdam<br \/>\nStudenten voor Rechtvaardigheid in Palestina \u2013 Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam<br \/>\nStudents Against Israeli Apartheid \u2013 Carleton University<br \/>\nStudents Against Israeli Apartheid \u2013 George Mason University<br \/>\nStudents Against Israeli Apartheid \u2013 Toronto<br \/>\nStudents Against Israeli Apartheid \u2013 York University<br \/>\nStudents for a Democratic Society at the University of Houston<br \/>\nStudents for Justice in Palestine \u2013 Claremont College<br \/>\nStudents for Justice in Palestine \u2013 Dublin<br \/>\nStudents for Justice in Palestine \u2013 Kent State University<br \/>\nStudents for Justice in Palestine \u2013 Leiden-Haaglanden<br \/>\nStudents for Justice in Palestine \u2013 Maastricht<br \/>\nStudents for Justice in Palestine \u2013 Nijmegen<br \/>\nStudents for Justice in Palestine \u2013 Rotterdam<br \/>\nStudents for Justice in Palestine \u2013 Saint Joseph\u2019s College<br \/>\nStudents for Justice in Palestine \u2013 The College of Staten Island<br \/>\nStudents for Justice in Palestine \u2013 UGA<br \/>\nStudents for Justice in Palestine \u2013 UOIT\/DC<br \/>\nTadamon, Montreal<br \/>\nUCL-Alma RiseUp<br \/>\nUnion des Etudiants Communistes<br \/>\nUniversity of Manchester Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! Society<br \/>\nUnited for Palestine, Italia<br \/>\nUS Campaign for Palestinian Rights<br \/>\nVrouwen In Het Zwart, Maastricht<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/logo-jews-for-justice-for-palestinians.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-51207\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/logo-jews-for-justice-for-palestinians.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"65\" \/><\/a><em>Jews for Justice for Palestinians is a network of Jews who are British or live in Britain, practising and secular, Zionist and not. We oppose Israeli policies that undermine the livelihoods, human, civil and political rights of the Palestinian people. We support the right of Israelis to live in freedom and security within Israel\u2019s 1967 borders. We work to build world-wide Jewish opposition to the Israeli Occupation, with like-minded groups around the world and are a founding member of <\/em><em>European Jews for a Just Peace<\/em><em>, a federation of Jewish groups in ten European countries.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/jfjfp.com\/?p=92851\" >Go to Original \u2013 jfjfp.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students suspect that Israeli and Palestinian authorities cooperate in keeping politically active students behind bars. To Israel they are terrorists in waiting, and to the PNA they are traitors. 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