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...Palestinian universities involved in the agreement were closed by Israel for much of the nearly four-year uprising against occupation. The West Bank's Bir Zeit University remains closed...
...means of presenting alternative viewpoints, Springer brought Taysir Aruri to campus to speak earlier this year. Aruri, a Palestinain lecturer of physics at Bir Zeit University on the West Bank, was deported without a public hearing. The Progressive Jewish Alliance also participated in a petition drive to protest the closing of Palestinian universities in the occupied territories. And Springer helped bring to Harvard a representative from Yesh G'vul, a group of Israeli soldiers who refuse to serve in the occupied territories...
...random violence. A Jewish settler was killed a few weeks ago when her car was fire bombed on the road to the settlement of Alfei Menashe. In retaliation, settlers belonging to the extremist Gush Emunim movement rampaged through the nearby Arab town of Kalkilya. The West Bank's Bir Zeit University has been closed for four months, following student rioting that left one Arab dead at the hands of Israeli soldiers. Occupation authorities have shut down the school eleven times in the past ten years. Two weeks ago, an eight-year-old Jewish boy was found murdered near the West...
...latest bloodletting erupted two weeks ago when 200 Palestinian Arab students at Bir Zeit University, 25 miles north of Jerusalem, launched a demonstration against the Israeli occupation. Specifically, they were objecting to a temporary roadblock that had been erected by the Israelis. When Israeli soldiers advanced, the students threw stones, and the soldiers responded with tear gas and then bullets. Two students, both of them 22, were killed instantly. The next day a 14-year-old was shot dead at the Balata refugee camp, where three days later Zeitun was killed. Skirmishes flared as soldiers fought running street battles with...
...Thursday, Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinian students at Bir Zeit University on the West Bank on the fifth day of riots against Israeli occupation of the West Bank...