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This week in my conversation classes I used class time to discuss the boycott of Israeli products. One of the readings in the textbook is about “price and value” so I introduced into the discussion what one thinks about when one goes shopping. Very few, if any, of my students ask shopkeepers about where products [...]
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Expresses gratitude for support; “Freedom restores dignity and humanity”
Northern Virginia - September 9, 2008 - Dr. Sami Al-Arian has given his first public statement since being released on bond, thanking his supporters for everything they have done, and calling on them to keep bearing witness to justice all over the world.
[Statement from Dr. Al-Arian:]
“The price [...]
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Before I begin my post on my first few days at An Najah National University, I must just comment a bit on this photograph here, which is very hard to see and even harder to read the writing on the building, but it deserves a comment. I had to go back to Ramallah the other [...]
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Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace
June 27, 2008
Bush Justice Department Indicts Dr. Sami Al-Arian: The Injustice Continues
ALEXANDRIA – The Bush Administration’s persecution of Dr. Sami Al
Arian reached new heights on Thursday when prosecutors in the Eastern
District of Virginia brought charges against him, entering a new
phase in the politically-motivated campaign of the past five years. [...]
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About a week ago there was an article in the New York Times stating that the U.S. State Department rescinded its Fulbright scholarships to 7 Palestinians living in Gaza. The Palestinian Campaign for the Cultural and Academic Boycott of Israel issued a petition trying to reinstate these scholarships and a blog emerged agitating [...]