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…or worse than my student realized. this just in: the israeli terrorist forces raided a dorm and kidnapped several students from my university–an najah–in nablus yesterday. this is what it means to be a student under occupation:
Israeli troops kidnap six college students from Nablus
author Thursday August 28, 2008 11:23
author by Rula Shahwan - IMEMC News [...]
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Although I was apprehensive at first, I am enjoying the conversation classes I’m teaching at An Najah University. I was not very happy when I first found my schedule changed, mostly because I’m not a language teacher and I have no experience teaching such classes. But my friend Diya helped me immensely with a textbook [...]
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growing up i always had to endure the ridiculous argument–equipped with distorted maps, of course–that the state of israel is so tiny and surrounded by dangerous, evil neighbors who want to “push all the jews into the sea.” john mccain has a new television ad about israel, but the tiny country featured in the ad [...]
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Okay, so Bush did not kill his father and marry his mother, but humor me for a minute. I’m teaching Sophocles’ Oedipus the King in my drama class this week. I don’t think I’ve read this play since I taught it in a drama class at Xavier University at least ten years ago. But I [...]
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There are so many reasons I’m happy to be in Palestine and not in the U.S. right now. Having to endure only a minimal amount of election coverage is one of those reasons–especially during convention season. But it is really frustrating to be an American abroad during this time, too. Because people are constantly coming [...]
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After teaching my classes today one of my new students called me on my cell phone to tell me that she had tried to go home to her nearby village at Huwarra checkpoint, but it was closed, so she returned to Nablus. It was closed because the prisoners were coming home to Nablus–and other cities [...]
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…or if anyone who knows where baha’a is right now: please sms me or send me an email. immediately. your jordan cell is not working and i’m very worried about your border crossing!
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So I have been obsessing about that David Horowitz bit I posted from “Riz Khan” on Al Jazeera English the other day. When you think about it, what Horowitz is engaging in is really Hitler’s “big lie” scheme. I think that the more he says “Jordan is a Palestinian state” the more he thinks people [...]
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Most of you who read this blog know how I feel about the “Free Gaza” movement (see earlier posts), but earlier today the boat’s electronic communication system and now the latest is that the Israeli Aggressive Forces (IAF–but really, shouldn’t it be changed yet again to Israeli Terrorist Forces) is firing at the boats, which [...]
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Where do I even begin? There is nothing like watching David Horowitz before one goes to sleep to nauseate and agitate you ad infinitum. But I subjected myself to this because when it comes to listening to Zionists I must be masochistic. Last night Horowitz was on Al Jazeera English’s “Riz Khan” program with Hussein [...]