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Banner drop for Palestine Right to Education Week

Action Palestine UMSU | 27.11.2008 23:17 | Palestine

On Thursday 27th November Action Palestine dropped a banner from a bridge over Oxford Road, which read "ISRAEL: END OCCUPATION, ALLOW EDUCATION". The banner was part of Action Palestine's Right to Education Week [1], which aimed to drew attention to the denial of Palestinians' right to education due to the illegal Israeli occupation.

Banner hanging above Oxford Road
Banner hanging above Oxford Road

University security taking down banner
University security taking down banner


Sara Mahmoud, a fourth year Physics and Theoretical Physics student, said:
"The banner encapsulates the core message of Action Palestine's Right
to Education Week; unless Israel ends its occupation of Palestine,
generations of Palestinian young people will be denied their
fundamental human right to knowledge and self-development."

Palestinian students face numerous obstacles; for instance, checkpoints,
border closures, economic isolation, detention and harassment [2]. This
obstruction to education in the West Bank and Gaza strip is not only a
violation of the basic human right to education, but an orchestrated means
of undermining and crippling the development of Palestinian society as a
whole. The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights -
ratified by Israel in 1991 - underlines the fact that "Education is both a
human right in itself and an indispensable means of realizing other human
rights" [3].


References
1.  http://www.actionpalestine.org/campaigns/r2e/

2.  http://right2edu.birzeit.edu/news/article495

3.
 http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/0/be35e82a2a526454c1256b0d00307f17?Opendocument

Action Palestine UMSU
- e-mail: manuni@actionpalestine.org
- Homepage: http://www.manap.org.uk

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29.11.2008 15:07

Ooh what a big bad scary banner you have there!!! In case you'd forgotten, you're just a bunch of uni students, and not peacebrokers at the UN. Sorry to have to break it to you like this.

Why don't you tell the Palestinians to educate their children the proper way, and not out of their parents' profound hatred for anything remotely Jewish?

kjeli


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