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► University Education in Palestine Policy
Passed at February 2007 GM
Lapses February 2010
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN PALESTINE POLICY
This union notes:
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights guarantees equal rights for all including the promise that ‘Everyone has the right to education’ (Article 26).
- Over one third of the Palestinian population are students in full-time school or university education.
- The Israeli military authorities closed down Birzeit University for nearly five years between 1988 and 1992, along with all other Palestinian educational institutions, including schools and kindergartens.
- Since the second Intifada began in September 2000, Palestinian schools and Universities have come under attack once again, both directly as military targets and indirectly as a result of Israel’s policies of collective punishment and prison-like restrictions on movement, which have prevented thousands of students and teachers reaching their educational institutions.
- During the invasions of Gaza Strip in 2004 four children were shot inside UNRWA school classrooms, including schoolgirls Raghda Adnan al-Assar and Ghadeer Jaber Mukhaymar, aged ten and nine respectively were shot dead while sitting at their desks.
- Hebron University and Palestine Polytechnic University were closed down by military order for most of 2003, affecting more than 6000 students.
- The A1 Quds University in East Jerusalem is now surrounded by an eight metre-high concrete wall, which cuts the University off from 36% of its students.
- The students from Gaza are barred from reaching the eight Palestinian universities in the West Bank due to checkpoints.
- That Birzeit University has been closed down by Israeli military order fifteen times in its history; and that all the Palestinian Universities and the majority of schools, including kindergartens, were closed down by military order between the years 1987-1992, denying a whole generation their right to education.
- That two Presidents of Birzeit University Student Council were imprisoned in 2004 and four out of the total 11 members of the Student Council were imprisoned in the same year.
This union believes:
- If peace is sought then freedom, justice, education and development are necessary.
- According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ‘Everyone has the right to education’, including Palestinians.
- Following Israel’s military re-occupation of West Bank towns in mid-June 2002, Palestinian educational life within the re-occupation zones has been hindered and brought to a grinding halt by blanket curfews imposed on the civilian population.
- The cumulative effects of these measures over the past few years have put the future of many schools and Universities at grave risk.
- This process of dismantlement of a major Palestinian University and the closure of numerous other Universities and schools augurs badly for the development of a healthy sustainable Palestinian society, as well as for the possibility of peace and reconciliation between the Palestinian and Israeli peoples.
This union instructs:
- To affiliate to the Right of Education Campaign at Birzeit University as a public show of solidarity and support to all Palestinian students and teachers who are struggling to live, work and study under the illegal Israeli occupation.
- To raise awareness within this Union and beyond to local and national constituencies about the issues facing Palestinian education under military occupation.
- To affiliate to Friends of Birzeit University of the UK.
- The President to send a letter of support to the Birzeit University Student Council.
- To support the Right to Education Campaign’s call for international action against Israeli violations of the human right to education in the occupied Palestinian territory.
- To raise these concerns with colleagues in the National Union of Students and encourage NUS and other Students’ Unions to support Palestinian students’ right to education.
- To oppose Israeli illegal military occupation and its attacks on Palestinian education and to lobby the elected representatives of our own government to pressure the government of Israel to adhere to its legal obligation to end attacks on civilian infrastructure and to allow unimpeded access for all Palestinians to their education institutions.
- To write to the Prime Minister, urging him to insist that Israel take immediate action to restore the right of education to Palestinian students.
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