Education Under Occupation

Education Under Occupation:
A call for Educational Justice in Palestine
featuring first-hand accounts from Palestinian students
Date: Thursday Nov 13th
Time: 5:30 PM
Location: 253 Malott Hall

sjp event

 

SJP, together with the Palestinian Right to Education campaign, is organizing a speaker event titled Education under Occupation: A call for Academic Justice for Palestine. The panel will feature firsthand accounts from two Palestinian student activists, who will be speaking about their experiences acquiring education while living under occupation. The third panelist will be an undergraduate student at Cornell who will connect the work of these activists for Palestinians’ right to education, with the concept of ‘academic freedom’ in Israel and the occupied territories.

The discussion will feature firsthand accounts by Mahmoud Daghlas and Phantina Sholi about the hardships faced by Palestinians who try to pursue education while living under Israeli occupation. Needless to say, the challenges faced by Palestinian students in Israel-Occupied Palestine are immense. Both students are active members of the Palestinian Right to Education Campaign, an organization that works to expose and document Israel’s violations of Palestinian education rights.

Abu Yusif Habib, a senior undergraduate at Cornell and member of SJP, will then discuss the meaning of “academic freedom” in the context of Israel-Occupied Palestine. What role can the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement play in achieving justice in Palestine, including the right to education for all? Given that our university has partnered with Technion, an Israeli university which is deeply embedded in its military-industrial complex, what is our role as students at Cornell?

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Ryan Clover-Owens

I'm on a mission to prove that we can live in a society that reconciles with our history, respects difference, cherishes the land and animals, and can create solutions to the challenges we face.