As part of an orchestrated campaign of suppression. revoke aimed at silencing the voice of Arab students at the University of Haifa, the university authorities have recently decided to suspend views. two students - Alaa Halaila and Raja Zaatra, chairman of the Arab student committee below: - from their studies for one semester. President
Three other studentactivists - Fadi Abu-Yunes, Samer Sueid, and Sami 8342101 Zuabi - were put on proba- • tion and threatened with a one-semester suspension.
These decisions punish the students for their participation in an allegedly illegal" demonstration, and they mark the climax of a school OT year in which the Arab students' right of expression was repeatedly denied. We Need Your Support
The policy of the University of Haifa seeks to end Palestinian student political activism on campus. This policy will continue unless massive protest persuades the University that it is unacceptable for an institution of Higher Learning.
We therefore call on members of the academic comply). community students and professors - as well as others, to protest the suppres sion of political activities of Arab at the University of Haifa second ...•• demand that the University University
the suspensions imposed on the student from activists and respect students' basic democratic right to express their political
Bank and Gaza.
Fax your protest letters the university officials listed
• Prof. Yehuda Hayuth,
• Prof. Aharon Ben Zeev, Rector Fax no.
Prof. Aharon Kellerman: Vice President Fax no. 8343441
• Ms. Yael Metser Vice President for Public Relations and Resource Development
• Prof. Ron Robin Dean
Fax no. negotiating 8240319 Events at the university of Haifa 2001/2 At the beginning of the school year, the Arab students' committee held a protest vigil on the discrimination against Arab students for places in student dormitories, based on the criterion of "military service" (with which Arabs in Israel cannot provocation
Following this protest, five students were suspended from their studies for three weeks without trial.
From the beginning of the
the ... . ..
systematically prevented Arab students
expressing their protest against the Israeli reinvasion of the towns and refugee camps in the West
The "temporary regulation" banning demonstrations on campus during the first 10 days of the semester was extended successively every few weeks, becoming the demo before reaching a permanent measure. the campus gate, as they
On April 8, 2002, after continued to march towards the Arab students' commit- it. The raising of the signs tee's announcement of its while still on campus was plan to hold a demonstra- considered enough of a tion was met with another "crime" to warrant another ban on demonstrations on disciplinary trial. campus. The Arab students' committee agreed, University authorities, signs while hold a peaceful demonstra-