Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 15:04:53 -0500 (EST)
From: "Kamran D. Rastegar" <kdr7-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: LETTER TO HEBREW UNIVERSITY DEAN OF STUDENTS  (fwd)



Please circulate... 

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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 17:37:13 -0500 (EST)
From: Jeffrey Alan Sacks <jas80-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: LETTER TO HEBREW UNIVERSITY DEAN OF STUDENTS 

Hello all,

Below is a leter to be sent to the dean of sudents at the Hebrew
University.  Please forward to any graduate student that you know.  Ask
them forward to me (jas80-AT-columbia.edu) their name and departmental and 
instiutional affiliation if they would like to sign.

Thanks,

Jeff

LETTER:

Professor Avigdor Shinan, Dean of Students
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Dear Professor Shinan,

As graduate students who aspire to join the global community of
universtiy scholars, we view with grave concern the recent decision of the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem to silence political protest and dissent
amongst its students regarding the current events that are taking place in
the State of Israel and the Occupied Territories.

A ban on political activiy, including he denial of the right to free
speech, the right to organize, and the right to demonstrate fly in the
face of any possible conception of democratic political practice.  Such a
ban calls into question the integrity of the Hebrew University of
Jeruslem, and suggests that the university is not a space of academic
inquiry but rather an instrument of the state made use of to implement and
censor criticism of the policies and actions of the state.

We call on the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to immediately end the ban
that it has imposed on political activity, and to support all activites
that will ensure that all citizens of the State of Israel are accorded,
at all times and in all places, the full rights which citizens
of a democratic state ought to be accorded.

Sincerely,

Jeffrey Sacks, Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures,
Columbia University


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Subject: [al-awda-NY-NJ] Fwd: Show your support :)


if everyone could take one minute to write an email one of the addresses 
below to protest Hebrew University's censorship of its students and putting 
a ban on their desire to protest Israel's continuing excessive force against 
occupied Palestinians.

let freedom ring!
Reema

>From: Laura Fragiacomo <lauraf-AT-palnet.com>
>Subject: Show your support :)
>Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 08:12:42 +0200
>
>
>
>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: [AL-AWDA-News] Hebrew University bans political activity
>Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 18:11:49 -0500
>From: "Zahi Damuni" <zdamuni-AT-email.msn.com>
>Organization: Al-Awda/PRRC
>To: "Al-Awda News" <Al-Awda-News-AT-egroups.com>
>
>From: "Amnon Cohen" <amnonc-AT-mercury.co.il>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 10:31 AM
>Subject: [GNAA] Hebrew University bans political activity
>
>
>Hebrew University bans political activity
>
>In a gross violation of the democratic rights of students,
>the administration of the Hebrew University has banned all
>political activity by students. This act is designed to silence
>criticism of the Israeli government's repression of the
>Palestinian uprising.
>
>A group of Jewish and Palestinian students, including CWI members,
>organised
>a silent demonstration today against the ban on political activity.
>Demonstrators wore gags to protest the univerities attempts
>to silence the students.
>
>The students who took part in this demonstration have been summoned
>to disciplinary meetings with the Dean of the university. This is a
>crude
>attempt to intimidate students into submission.
>
>The denial of the right to free speach, the right to organise, and the
>right
>
>to demonstrate is contradicts the universities own charter which claims
>to
>be "committed to the values of the equality of rights and opportunities,
>to academic freedom and freedom of expression...".
>
>The repressive methods of the university adminstration must not be
>allowed
>to succeed. Send messages of protest to
>
>Avigdor Shinan, Dean of Students,
>Hebrew University of Jerusalem
>Fax: ++ 972 2 581 2738
>Email: shinan-AT-hum.huji.ac.il
>
>Messages of support for students to:
>The struggling students
>Fax: ++ 972 2 622 2168
>Email: yberda-AT-hotmail.com
>
>Please send copies to us: info-AT-maavak.org.il
>
>UPDATE 15/11/2000
>Update on Jerusalem university administration's attack on students, and
>call
>for messages of protest/support.
>
>Yesterday, 20 students demonstrated against the university
>administration's
>ban on political activity, including some of our student comrades. The
>ban
>is an attempt mainly to silence criticism by Palestinian students and
>Left
>Jewish students against the killing of 13 Israeli Palestinians by
>Israeli
>police, during demonstrations within Israel a month ago.
>
>Security guards who broke up the demonstration demanded the names and
>identity numbers of all students who participated. Some students refused
>to
>give their names. Unbeknown to the students, every student on the
>demonstration was photographed, and the pictures were handed over to the
>Dean.
>
>That same evening, the students were summoned to individual disciplinary
>hearings by the Dean. After receiving legal advice, the students refused
>to
>attend the hearings, claiming that the individual hearings were an
>attempt
>to divide and weaken them, by isolating and threatening individual
>students.
>The students stressed the importance of waging a united struggle against
>the
>attempts at intimidation by the administration.
>
>The Dean is now threatening the students with a joint disciplinary
>hearing.
>All students are accused of breaking the ban on political activity. In
>addition, some students are being accused of refusing to give their
>details
>to security guards.
>.
>The students are refusing to be intimidated by the university's threats,
>and
>are organizing their defense and struggle.
>
>30 lecturers have already signed a petition protesting the university
>administration's intimidation of students exercising their right to free
>speech, and the students have set up committees for continuing the
>struggle,
>and for getting legal support.
>
>At the start of the academic year, the Dean promised that the ban on
>political activity would only last 2 weeks. However, 2 and a half weeks
>later, the ban is still in place.
>
>The students were very encouraged to hear that we are organizing
>international messages of protest to the Dean.
>We ask comrades, especially those with positions in student bodies or
>within
>universities, to send messages to the Dean, protesting the ban on
>political
>activity and the intimidation of students.
>Please also send messages of support to the struggling students.
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