Democratic Palestine : 18 (ص 10)
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expelled teachers and students be reinstated. The administra-
tion’s response was to close the college for several days.
ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY, GAZA
On March 27th, Israeli forces raided the university and sear-
ched offices and classrooms until late in the night, while all
traffic to the university was stopped. The preceding month,
starting in mid-April, the university had witnessed violence
against the nationalist and progressive students, perpetrated by
the reactionary Islamic Student Bloc and supported by the
administration.
The administration suspended five students for a week, and
warned another, claiming they had violated university regula-
tions. The students say that these measures were taken because
they had organized a moment of silence commemorating the
Deir Yassin massacre where 254 Palestinians were slaughtered
by the Zionist Irgun terror organization in 1948. Progressive
and nationalist students organized a sit-in on April 13thin front
of the administration building, demanding that the administra-
tion cancel its decision to suspend the five students. On April
16th, the administration decided to expel all six students. Stu-
dents from the reactionary Islamic Bloc prevented them from
entering the university. They also beat up women who were
participating in the sit-in. The Progressive Student Action Front
issued a statement condemning the barbarism of the reactiona-
ries, and accusing the administration of masterminding their
actions. The statement also condemned the expulsions.
Mass organizations in the Gaza Strip also issued condemna-
tions of the reactionaries’ violence and held the administration
responsible. The statement was signed by: The Progressive
Front for Trade Union Action, the Palestinian Women’s
Committees, the Union of High School Students’ Committees
and the Volunteer Work Committee.
1948 OCCUPIED PALESTINE
ARAB HIGH SCHOOL
STUDENT COUNCILS
On February 9th, the regional conference of Arab High
School Student Councils was held in Nazareth, with the follo-
wing slogans: ‘‘Student unity is the guarantee for achieving our
just demands, No to cosmopolitanism, Yes to programs that
respect our national history, heritage and literature. The main
speech at the conference asserted that the Palestinian students
would never retreat in their struggle to achieve their legitimate
rights. It was pointed out that the solid position of the high
school councils had led to more repression against them by the
Israeli authorities who were attempting to minimize the role of
the councils. The speech included an announcement that the
Arab Druze schools had joined the councils, as seen in the
attendance of the delegation from these schools. The conference
approved the main slogan for the coming year: For the broad-
est student unity to unite the struggle against fascism and
racism directed at our Arab masses.
Nazareth Mayor Tawfiq Ziad addressed the conference on
the current political situation, especially the attempts of impe-
rialism, Zionism and Arab reaction to eliminate the PLO’s role
as the sole, legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.
He also said that a just peace will never be achieved unless the
Palestinian people attain their legitimate rights to establish their
independent state. He called on the students to unite in the battle
against racism.
HEBREW UNIVERSITY
Early in the year, the Arab Student Front at Hebrew Univer-
sity issued a statement calling for resolving the Palestinian issue
based on establishing an independent Palestinian state with
Jerusalem as its capital. The statement condemned all attempts
to split student unity, made by those who are chasing after capi-
tulationist solutions, and conspiracies beginning with the
Reagan plan up to the Amman accord. The statement called for
foiling the Amman accord and restoring the PLO’s unity, based
on the Aden-Algiers agreement and the 16th PNC’s resolutions.
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The statement also demanded an end to the iron fist policy, and
called on all students to unite in the struggle against the Israeli
enemy’s policies of occupation and racism, and for national
independence for the Palestinian people, for equality and
democracy.
It is noteworthy that the dominant phenomenon among the
nationalist student organizations in the part of Palestine occu-
pied in 1948, is that of positiveness and close coordination. This:
was evident in the joint list between the Arab Student Front and
the Progressive Nationalist Movement in the recent student
elections at Jerusalem, Haifa and Bir Saba’ (Beer Sheba).
VOLUNTEER WORK COMMITTEES
In the Gaza Strip, the occupation authorities sent question-
naires to all employees of public establishments, and all mem-
bers of popular committees ana clubs. The questions focused on
their membership and the extent of their involvement in volun-
teer work committees. At the same time, they were warned not
to participate in any volunteer work without special permission
from the authorities.
In the occupied West Bank, the most prominent volunteer
work was in Duheisheh camp where the camp committee
planted 300 grapevines. This was a step to reactivate the com-
mittee which has been dormant for a longer period due to the
repression inflicted on Duheisheh by the occupation authorities.
The committee now intends to implement a comprehensive plan
in the near future, beginning with rebuilding the camp’s com-
munity center that was previously demolished by the authori-
ties.
In Jerusalem, commemorating the Day of the Land, the
volunteer work committee prepared a piece of land and reno-
vated a home belonging to a liberated prisoner. This was the
first activity organized by the Jerusalem committee for four
months. The Social Committee of the Beit Hanina Youth Club
did maintenance work on the cemetary in Old Jerusalem.
The volunteer work committees were vocal this year in
expressing their political views. All committees signed joint sta-
tements condemning King Hussein’s speech, the Jordanian
regime’s plans, and the US attack on Libya, and commemora-
ting Women’s [nternational Day, the Day of the Land and
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