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Call for delegates, Right to Education Campaign, 20 May 2010
The Right to Education Campaign, endorsed by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and the The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaign National Committee (BNC), are pleased to issue a call for participants to the first international conference in Palestine on student activism, to be held on the 27th and 28th of July 2010 at Birzeit University.
We hope that students from around the world who are engaged in Palestine solidarity activism will attend the conference. This conference will provide a much needed forum to share knowledge and experiences as well as discussing future strategies.
In addition the campaign will be arranging visits to various West Bank cities for the three days prior, and the three days following, the conference. These are open to any delegates who are attending the conference as individuals and not part of a group.
If you would like to attend please complete the following application form: http://tinyurl.com/r2e-conf-app
We are still finalising the conference agenda and would welcome your suggestion. To make any additions the agenda please email us at right2edu@birzeit.edu 
Varsity row over Israel links
Lionel Faull, Mail & Guardian Online, 21 May 2010
The University of Johannesburg (UJ) is considering cutting academic ties with Israel's Ben-Gurion University (BGU) in protest against Ben Gurion's association with Palestinian human rights abuses.
المؤتمر للطلابي الدولي للحق في التعليم
دعوة, حملة الحق في التعليم, 20 May 2010
تدعوكم حملة الحق في التعليم بدعم كل من الحملة الفلسطينية للمقاطعة الأكاديمية و الثقافية "لإسرائيل" و اللجنة الوطنية الفلسطينية لمقاطعة "إسرائيل" ، للمشاركة في - المؤتمر الدولي الأول حول النشاط الطلابي التضامني ، والذي سيعقد في 27 و 28 من يوليو تمّوز 2010 في جامعة بيرزيت فلسطين؛ بمشاركة طلاب ناشطين في حركات التضامن من مختلف أنحاء العالم. بهدف تبادل الخبرات والمعرفة المتراكمة ووضع إستراتيجيات للعمل المستقبلي.
ان تجمع الحركات الطلابية من بلدان مختلفة للتواصل وتبادلها للخبرات سيسمح بتقوية هذه الحركات مساعدا إياها على رفع فاعليتها على المستوى الدولي و التنسيق بين نشاطاتها.
إضافة للمؤتمر سوف تقوم حملة الحق في التعليم بتنظيم زيارات لعدة مدن فلسطينية في الضفة الغربية قبل المؤتمر بثلاثة أيام و بعد انتهاء المؤتمر بثلاثة أيام، للراغبين للمشاركة من المشاركين في المؤتمر.
إذا كانت لديكم الرغبة في المشاركة، نرجو منكم تعبئة الطلب التالي :
http://tinyurl.com/r2e-conf-app-ar
على الراغبين في تقديم مقترحات حول برنامج المؤتر الاتصال بنا على العنوان التالي:
right2edu@birzeit.edu
Director of North Park University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies, dismissed for political views
Sarah Peck, In These Times, 14 May 2010
Palestinian human rights activist Don Wagner, director of North Park University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), was dismissed from the university despite his popularity amongst students. Though school administrators have cited financial pressures as the reason for Wagner's departure, many students--and some faculty members--believe his position was eliminated because of his political views, which made him a controversial figure within the Chicago evangelical Christian university's larger community.
Pro-Israel group monitoring, intimidating Columbia faculty
Jared Malsin, The Electronic Intifada, 30 April 2010
Critics of Israeli policy and sympathizers with Palestinians have been subjected to intimidation at Columbia University upon a student's attempts to have Professor Joseph Massad's remarks in his "Palestinian and Israeli politics and societies" class monitored and "reported" for alleged anti-Israel biases, thereby threatening freedom of speech and expression in the classroom.
UC Berkeley Student Senate Fails to Override Veto of Israel Divestment Measure
, Democracy Now!, 30 April 2010
A video review of the historic UC Berkeley divestment vote.
University students commit to sweeping boycotts
, Ma'an News Agency, 28 April 2010
In anticipation of Nakba commemoration day next month, Palestinian student and youth groups across the West Bank and Gaza signed a memorandum enacting a massive boycott of Israeli products and programs.
Israel Prize Laureates to Defense Minister: Cancel Ban on Gaza Students Studying in West Bank Universities
, Gisha, 28 April 2010
Ten Israel Prize laureates and more than 50 academics and intellectuals wrote to the Israeli Defense Minister asking him to cancel the sweeping ban Israel has imposed, since 2000, on Palestinian students from Gaza studying in the West Bank.
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