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The passing of Dr. Naseer Aruri; USPCN joins important campaigns and protests
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USPCN mourns the loss of Dr. Naseer Aruri, one of Palestine's finest academics and analysts, who was an early supporter when we were founded back in 2006. We honored him at our national conference in 2010, and he was a good friend and mentor to many of our leading members. Dr. Aruri will be greatly missed.
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See this official statement below, in English and Arabic, from his family, colleagues, and friends:
Palestine and The Arab World lost an eminent academic scholar, an internationally recognized and highly respected intellectual, a committed and unwavering Palestinian patriot and a progressive Arab nationalist. Dr. Naseer Aruri passed away on February 10th, 2015. Dr. Aruri was a leading voice in the field of human rights and an authoritative reference on US foreign policy in the Middle East, particularly towards the Palestine/Israel conflict. Born in 1934 in Jerusalem, Palestine, Dr. Aruri held a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and was a prolific writer and lecturer who appeared often in the media throughout the past half century.
Dr. Aruri served on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth from 1965 to 1998 and, at the time of his retirement, was Chancellor Professor of Political Science at that university. This life of academic excellence was matched by a prolific activist career dedicated to the service of Palestinian and Arab causes. As a member of the Palestinian National Council, the Palestinian’s Parliament in exile, and the Central Council of the PLO, he was widely known and admired by Palestinians everywhere for his vast knowledge, complete dedication, and unmatched honesty. He was keen on building and strengthening Palestinian, Arab and Arab-American institutions.
Dr. Aruri was a founder and two time President of the Association of Arab-American University Graduates, which was the first Pan-Arab organization in North America when it was established in 1968 and had the largest membership of Arab academics outside the Arab World. In 1998, he co-founded Trans-Arab Research Institute (Boston), and served as Chair of its Board of Directors until 2006.
Dr. Aruri dedicated himself to the support of human rights. He was a member of the Independent Palestinian Commission for the Protection of Citizens Rights (Ramallah) since its inception in January l994, a founding member of the Arab Organization for Human Rights in 1982, and a key participant in the drafting of the Arab Covenant of Human Rights in December 1986. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of Human Rights Watch/Middle East, 1990-1992, and a three-term member of the Board of Directors of Amnesty International, USA (1984-1990).
Dr. Aruri served on the boards of Third World Quarterly (London), the Jerusalem Fund - Palestine Center (Washington, D.C.), and the International Institute for Criminal Investigations (The Hague). In his struggle on behalf of Palestine and the Palestinians, the lifetime aim of Dr. Aruri was to promote a solution to the Palestine/Israel conflict based on the establishment of one democratic state in historic Palestine in which all its citizenry, regardless of their ethnicity or faith, are free and equal.
Dr. Aruri’s many publications include The Palestinian Resistance to Israeli Occupation (1970); Enemy of the Sun: Poems of Palestinian Resistance, with Edmund Ghareeb (1970); Occupation: Israel Over Palestine (1983); The Obstruction of Peace: The U.S., Israel and the Palestinians (1995); Palestinian Refugees: The Right of Return (2001); Dishonest Broker: The U.S. Role in Israel and Palestine (2003); Palestine and the Palestinians: A Social and Political History (2006), with Samih Farsoun; and Bitter Legacy: The United States in the Middle East (2014). The private library and papers of Naseer Aruri have been preserved and are on display at the Claire T. Carney Library Archives and Special Collections at UMASS-Dartmouth.
Dr. Aruri is survived by his wife Joyce and four children--Faris, Karen Leila, Jamal and Jay Hatem--and their spouses and 13 grandchildren.
Condolences to the family of Dr. Naseer Aruri may be sent to [email protected]
نصير عاروري
1934-2015
في العاشر من شباط ٢٠١٥ رحل الدكتور نصير عاروري، وبرحيله فقدت فلسطين والوطن العربي أكاديمي وباحث مرموق، مثقف معروف يحظى بالإحترام على المستويين العالمي والعربي، ووطني فلسطيني وقومي عربي تقدمي عنيد قضى جل عمره وسخر مهنته في خدمة قضية فلسطين والقضايا العربية. الدكتور نصير عاروري كان صوتا رائدا في حقل حقوق الإنسان ومرجعا موثوقا عن السياسة الأميركية في الشرق الأوسط، وخصوصا فيما يتعلق بقضية فلسطين.
ولد الدكتور عاروري في القدس، فلسطين، في عام ١٩٣٤ وحصل على شهادة الدكتوراة في العلوم السياسية من جامعة ماساتشوستس ـ أمهرست وأصبح كاتبا غزيرا ومحاضرا نشطا وصاحب ظهور إعلامي متميز لأكثر من نصف قرن. عمل الدكتور عاروري كأستاذ في جامعة ماساتشوستس ـ دارتموث من عام ١٩٦٥ـ١٩٩٨ وتقاعد بمرتبة "استاذ مستشار" في العلوم السياسية من نفس الجامعة. هذه الحياة الحافلة بالإنجازات والتفوق الأكاديمي ترافقت مع تاريخ طويل من النضال من أجل القضية الفلسطينية والقضايا العربية. فالدكتور عاروري كان عضوا في المجلس الوطني الفلسطيني والمجلس المركزي لمنظمة التحرير الفلسطينية وكان رمزا يحظى بالتقدير والإحترام من قبل الفلسطينيين في كل مكان لإلمامه ومعرفته الواسعة بالقضية الفلسطينية ولتكريسه حياته لخدمتها ولإمانته وصدقه في تمثيلها. فالراحل كرس وقته وبإصرار لبناء وتقوية المؤسسات الفلسطينية والعربية في الولايات المتحدة، فكان أحد مؤسسي رابطة الخريجيين العرب ـ الأميركيين في عام ١٩٦٨، أول مؤسسة عربية أنشأت في أميركا الشمالية ضمت أكبر تجمع للأكاديمين العرب خارج الوطن العربي، ورئيسها لدورتين متتاليتين. وفي عام ١٩٩٨ شارك في تأسيس معهد الدراسات العربية (تاري) في بوسطن وخدم كرئيس لمجلس إدارتها حتى عام ٢٠٠٦. وفي مجال حقوق الإنسان، أيضا، كان الدكتور عاروري عضوا في "الهيئة الفلسطينية المستقلة لحماية حقوق المواطن" في (رام الله) منذ تأسيسها عام ١٩٩٤، وعضوا مؤسسا في الجمعية العربية لحقوق الإنسان في عام ١٩٨٢، ومشاركا رئيسيا في صياغة "الميثاق العربي لحقوق الإنسان" في كانون الأول/ ديسمبر ١٩٨٦، وعضوا في مجلس إدارة منظمة "هيومن رايتس واتش/ الشرق الأوسط" بين عامي ١٩٩٠ ـ ١٩٩٢، وعضوا في مجلس إدارة منظمة العفو الدولية/أميركا "آمنستي إنترناشيونال" لثلاث دورات (١٩٨٤ـ ١٩٩٠). وسيرة ونشاط الدكتور عاروري الحافلة تشمل أيضا عضوية مجلس إدارة "فصلية العالم الثالث" (لندن)، صندوق القدس ـ مركز فلسطين (واشنطن العاصمة)، والمعهد الدولي للتحقيقات الجنائية (لاهاي). وفي سياق نضاله من أجل القضية الفلسطينية والشعب الفلسطيني الذي سخر لهما حياته كلها، دأب الدكتور عاروري على الدعوة لحل الدولة الديمقراطية الواحدة على كامل تراب فلسطين التاريخية يتمتع جميع سكانها بالحرية والعدالة بغض النظر عن الدين والإثنية.
رحل الدكتور نصير عاروري مخلفا ورائه إرثا غنيا من الكتب والدراسات والمقالات نذكر منها: "المقاومة الفلسطينية والإحتلال الإسرائيلي (١٩٧٠)، "عدو الشمس: قصائد المقاومة الفلسطينية" مع إدموند غريب، "الإحتلال: إحتلال إسرائيل لفلسطين" (١٩٨٣)، "عرقلة السلام: الولايات المتحدة، إسرائيل، والفلسطينيين" (١٩٩٥)، "اللاجئون الفلسطينيون: حق العودة" (٢٠٠١)، "الوسيط غير النزيه: دور الولايات المتحدة في إسرائيل وفلسطين" (٢٠٠٣)، "فلسطين والفلسطينيون: تاريخ إجتماعي وسياسي" (٢٠٠٦) مع سميح فرسون، و "الإرث المر: الولايات المتحدة في الشرق الأوسط" (٢٠١٤) .
يذكر أن المكتبة والأوراق الخاصة بالدكتور عاروري تم حفظها ويتم عرضها في مكتبة "كلير تي كارني" للمحفوظات والمجموعات الخاصة في جامعة ماساتشوستس ـ دارتموث.
رحل الدكتور نصير عاروري تاركا ورائه سيرة حافلة بالعمل والعطاء من أجل وطنه وشعبه، ومخلفا ورائه زوجته "جويس" وأبنائه الأربعة فارس، ليلى، جمال، وحاتم، وثلاثة عشر حفيدا.
ترسل التعازي برحيل الدكتور نصير عاروري إلى :[email protected]
February 28th - March 3rd: USPCN joins CODEPINK and others in DC to #ShutDownAIPAC
https://www.facebook.com/events/583300068467490/
Saturday, February 28, 2015
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM - #OneStruggle
at Trinity Lutheran Church
Join Human Rights Lawyer and USPCN co-founder Noura Erakat; Dream Defenders Ahmed Abuznaid, Tef Poe and Tara Thompson from Ferguson, Missouri; founder of Indigenous Resistance, Andrew Curley; and Students Against Israeli Apartheid / USPCN organizer, Tareq Radi, to discuss the similarities between systems of oppression across the globe.
Sunday, March 1, 2015 12:00 - 3:00PM
https://www.popularresistance.org/calendar1/shut-down-aipac/
Rally at the Washington Convention Center
Join activists from around the country to call for an end to Israeli apartheid and to #ShutDownAIPAC! Converge at the Washington Convention Center with mock settlements, a checkpoint, a creative action with 100 Netanyahu Masks and bloody hands, and speakers including Steven Salaita, Ronnie Barkan and Ariel Gold. RSVP here to be a part of this creative action.
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
AIPAC 101 at Busboys and Poets on 5th and K.
Join Miko Peled, Philip Giraldi and Susan Abulhawa to discuss AIPAC’s political power and how best to counter it.
For the full program that runs from Sat 2/28 to Tues 3/3, go to
http://www.codepink.org/shutdownaipac
Samidoun Report: Lina Khattab sentenced to six months in Israeli prison
Feb 16, 2015
Lina Khattab, Palestinian student at Bir Zeit University and folkloric dancer with El Funoun, was sentenced by an Israeli military court at Ofer to six months imprisonment on Monday, 16 February after it convicted her on charges of “throwing stones” and “participating in an unlawful demonstration.” She was also sentenced to a 6000 NIS ($1500 USD) fine and three years probation.
Sahar Francis, executive director of Addameer, earlier told the Electronic Intifada that “they treated Lina as if she is so dangerous, such a serious security threat — this is what makes us believe that they are using her case in order to frighten students from being involved in activism.”
Samidoun will provide updates and actions to continue the demand to free Lina immediately and unconditionally. Please continue to take action and demand Lina’s immediate release.
Free Lina Khattab video! #FreeLinaKhattab
USPCN co-writes letter expressing dismay at public UC Davis condemnation of democratic vote to divest from Israel
Subject: Community concerns regarding UCD administration
Dear Chancellor Katehi,
We are writing to express our support for the Associated Students of UC Davis divestment resolution that passed last Thursday night, and our dismay at your administration’s public condemnation of it. UC Davis now joins the majority of UC campuses, representing tens of thousands of students, as well as UAW Local 2865, which represents over thirteen thousand UC student workers, TAs, GSIs, Readers, and Tutors, who have all passed resolutions to divest from corporations that support and are complicit with Israel’s occupation of Palestine.
We congratulate UC Davis students for opposing racism by voting for divestment. We salute their efforts and persistent display of resilience despite years of censorship, alienation, and criminalization on campus. And we hold your administration, along with previous UC administrations, accountable for the repression and criminalization of such student movements.
Given the UC’s supposed commitment to confronting and rejecting “all manifestations of discrimination,” your administration should be equally proud of this vote calling for global justice and “the inherent dignity of all.” As Arabs dedicated to social justice for all oppressed communities, we support all student efforts in challenging your administration until UC Davis maintain a strong, clear, and principled line of support for student activism, academic freedom and on matters of justice and equity. Yet, we recognize that the UC administration interests do not align with that of the majority of the student population. For communities of color and student activists are consistently reminded that UC Davis administration stands on the side of power, profit, and the police.
As Chancellor, your administration, specifically, has a long history of repression, from calling in the police that infamously pepper sprayed seated students, to bringing retroactive charges against 11 students and a professor who protested the U.S. Bank on campus. You even played a role in bringing police back onto university campuses in your home country of Greece, where police were disallowed since 1974 because of their role in suppressing student dissent. More recently, you forwarded an email you received from the Zionist and racist ADL to the upper UCD administration and police, which called for increased security and “discipline” as a response to pro-Palestinian activities on campus. Let us also not forget your appointment to an FBI advisory board.
A statement released by your administration immediately following the divestment vote falls perfectly in line with this repressive history. The statement suggests that UCD values a diverse community, with “research programs across the globe” and “a community of faculty, researchers and students from everywhere in the world.” Yet the rights of Palestinians are made invisible and UC Davis continues to collaborate with Apartheid Israel despite the fact that it stifles education and freedom for Palestinians.
Your administration’s idea of democratic process does not respect the decision reached by its very own students when that decision challenges the corporate interests of the UC system. It disregards the diverse grassroots student movement that voted against racism. As was and remains clear by the turn out in favor of passing the divestment resolution, Palestine is a global struggle for all people who stand on the side of justice. Students, faculty and workers of all races and backgrounds have expressed unwavering support for this effort.
The administration’s disregard for the passing of the resolution as a victory confirms that UCD policies and practices contradict rhetorical claims of creating a diverse community in which all peoples are valued. And your historic actions contradict your calls for civility.
For indeed, you have shown us time and time again, that you are committed to supporting state violence on campus in order to crush student protest.
On the other hand, the divestment resolution passed by UC Davis students champions the rights and struggle of Palestinians who have endured displacement, ethnic cleansing, and violence by decades of Israeli occupation. Their resolution aligns with a global movement of students and countless others who have chosen to challenge complicity with Israel's apartheid policies and war crimes.
UC Davis students have made history. They join millions who call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions to achieve freedom, justice, and self-determination for the Palestinian people. They build on the history of social movements that have long struggled for liberation here and everywhere.
Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC)
Palestinian Youth Movement-USA Chapter
US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN)
Endorsed By:
Students for Justice in Palestine, University of California Berkeley (CAL-SJP)
International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN)
Act Now to Stop War and End Racism Coalition, San Francisco Bay Area (ANSWER)
Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA)
Professor Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative
American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)
Carlos Villarreal, Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild (NLG) San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
Freedom Archives
Art Forces
USPCN co-sponsored protest of Times of Israel gala in NY
On February 15, 2015, The Times of Israel organized its first “annual gala” at the Waldorf Hotel in New York City “to celebrate the very best of the country we call home.” The Times declared the theme of this inaugural event, “Telling Israel’s Story.”
This “gala,” however, was anything but a honest accounting of the Israeli regime, and USPCN was there, along with Al Awda NY, the main organizer of the response, and dozens of protesters, to set the record straight. We were there to declare: An apartheid state is nothing to celebrate!
The event did not mention the 800,000 Palestinians ethnically cleansed by Zionist forces to create a “Jewish state” on a land with a non-Jewish majority.
It didn’t mention the laws — over 50 and counting — that discriminate against Palestinian citizens of Israel.
It didn’t mention Israeli massacres of thousands of civilians in Gaza, including children, the elderly, and the disabled, designed to terrorize an indigenous population into submission.
It didn’t mention Israel's brutal occupation of the 1967 territories of historic Palestine, with its Apartheid Wall, system of dehumanizing checkpoints, resource theft, and violent “Jewish only” settlements.
It didn’t mention the role Israel plays in protecting Western imperial interests in the Middle East, or in training police from around the world in techniques of surveillance, torture, and population control.
In short, it didn't tell the true story of apartheid Israel.
But it was an important opportunity for defenders of justice for Palestinians to speak truth to power, to make our voices heard over the cynical lies of the Israeli propaganda machine and its U.S. sponsors, and to affirm our support for the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israel (BDS), which demands an end to Israeli military occupation of the 1967 territories, full equality for Palestinian citizens of Israel, and right of return for Palestinian refugees as affirmed by UN resolution 194.
Note: Proceeds from the event in part went to support the Jewish National Fund, one of the primary organizations through which Israel implements its racist control over the land of historic Palestine.
Co-sponsors:
Al-Awda New York: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
Adalah New York: The Campaign for the Boycott of Israel
American Muslims for Palestine
Direct Action Front for Palestine
Existence Is Resistance
International Action Center
International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
International League of People's Struggle - US chapter
International Socialist Organization
Jews for Palestinian Right of Return
Labor for Palestine
Middle East Crisis Committee (CT)
New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA)
NYC Solidarity with Palestine
Princeton for Palestine
Queers Against Israeli Apartheid - NYC
Queer Palestinian Empowerment Network
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
Stop The Jewish National Fund Campaign
Students for Justice in Palestine at Brooklyn College
Students for Justice in Palestine at College of Staten Island
Students for Justice in Palestine at John Jay College
Students for Justice in Palestine at New York University
The Hampton Institute
US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
US Palestinian Community Network
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USPCN mourns the loss of Dr. Naseer Aruri, one of Palestine's finest academics and analysts, who was an early supporter when we were founded back in 2006. We honored him at our national conference in 2010, and he was a good friend and mentor to many of our leading members. Dr. Aruri will be greatly missed.
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See this official statement below, in English and Arabic, from his family, colleagues, and friends:
Palestine and The Arab World lost an eminent academic scholar, an internationally recognized and highly respected intellectual, a committed and unwavering Palestinian patriot and a progressive Arab nationalist. Dr. Naseer Aruri passed away on February 10th, 2015. Dr. Aruri was a leading voice in the field of human rights and an authoritative reference on US foreign policy in the Middle East, particularly towards the Palestine/Israel conflict. Born in 1934 in Jerusalem, Palestine, Dr. Aruri held a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and was a prolific writer and lecturer who appeared often in the media throughout the past half century.
Dr. Aruri served on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth from 1965 to 1998 and, at the time of his retirement, was Chancellor Professor of Political Science at that university. This life of academic excellence was matched by a prolific activist career dedicated to the service of Palestinian and Arab causes. As a member of the Palestinian National Council, the Palestinian’s Parliament in exile, and the Central Council of the PLO, he was widely known and admired by Palestinians everywhere for his vast knowledge, complete dedication, and unmatched honesty. He was keen on building and strengthening Palestinian, Arab and Arab-American institutions.
Dr. Aruri was a founder and two time President of the Association of Arab-American University Graduates, which was the first Pan-Arab organization in North America when it was established in 1968 and had the largest membership of Arab academics outside the Arab World. In 1998, he co-founded Trans-Arab Research Institute (Boston), and served as Chair of its Board of Directors until 2006.
Dr. Aruri dedicated himself to the support of human rights. He was a member of the Independent Palestinian Commission for the Protection of Citizens Rights (Ramallah) since its inception in January l994, a founding member of the Arab Organization for Human Rights in 1982, and a key participant in the drafting of the Arab Covenant of Human Rights in December 1986. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of Human Rights Watch/Middle East, 1990-1992, and a three-term member of the Board of Directors of Amnesty International, USA (1984-1990).
Dr. Aruri served on the boards of Third World Quarterly (London), the Jerusalem Fund - Palestine Center (Washington, D.C.), and the International Institute for Criminal Investigations (The Hague). In his struggle on behalf of Palestine and the Palestinians, the lifetime aim of Dr. Aruri was to promote a solution to the Palestine/Israel conflict based on the establishment of one democratic state in historic Palestine in which all its citizenry, regardless of their ethnicity or faith, are free and equal.
Dr. Aruri’s many publications include The Palestinian Resistance to Israeli Occupation (1970); Enemy of the Sun: Poems of Palestinian Resistance, with Edmund Ghareeb (1970); Occupation: Israel Over Palestine (1983); The Obstruction of Peace: The U.S., Israel and the Palestinians (1995); Palestinian Refugees: The Right of Return (2001); Dishonest Broker: The U.S. Role in Israel and Palestine (2003); Palestine and the Palestinians: A Social and Political History (2006), with Samih Farsoun; and Bitter Legacy: The United States in the Middle East (2014). The private library and papers of Naseer Aruri have been preserved and are on display at the Claire T. Carney Library Archives and Special Collections at UMASS-Dartmouth.
Dr. Aruri is survived by his wife Joyce and four children--Faris, Karen Leila, Jamal and Jay Hatem--and their spouses and 13 grandchildren.
Condolences to the family of Dr. Naseer Aruri may be sent to [email protected]
نصير عاروري
1934-2015
في العاشر من شباط ٢٠١٥ رحل الدكتور نصير عاروري، وبرحيله فقدت فلسطين والوطن العربي أكاديمي وباحث مرموق، مثقف معروف يحظى بالإحترام على المستويين العالمي والعربي، ووطني فلسطيني وقومي عربي تقدمي عنيد قضى جل عمره وسخر مهنته في خدمة قضية فلسطين والقضايا العربية. الدكتور نصير عاروري كان صوتا رائدا في حقل حقوق الإنسان ومرجعا موثوقا عن السياسة الأميركية في الشرق الأوسط، وخصوصا فيما يتعلق بقضية فلسطين.
ولد الدكتور عاروري في القدس، فلسطين، في عام ١٩٣٤ وحصل على شهادة الدكتوراة في العلوم السياسية من جامعة ماساتشوستس ـ أمهرست وأصبح كاتبا غزيرا ومحاضرا نشطا وصاحب ظهور إعلامي متميز لأكثر من نصف قرن. عمل الدكتور عاروري كأستاذ في جامعة ماساتشوستس ـ دارتموث من عام ١٩٦٥ـ١٩٩٨ وتقاعد بمرتبة "استاذ مستشار" في العلوم السياسية من نفس الجامعة. هذه الحياة الحافلة بالإنجازات والتفوق الأكاديمي ترافقت مع تاريخ طويل من النضال من أجل القضية الفلسطينية والقضايا العربية. فالدكتور عاروري كان عضوا في المجلس الوطني الفلسطيني والمجلس المركزي لمنظمة التحرير الفلسطينية وكان رمزا يحظى بالتقدير والإحترام من قبل الفلسطينيين في كل مكان لإلمامه ومعرفته الواسعة بالقضية الفلسطينية ولتكريسه حياته لخدمتها ولإمانته وصدقه في تمثيلها. فالراحل كرس وقته وبإصرار لبناء وتقوية المؤسسات الفلسطينية والعربية في الولايات المتحدة، فكان أحد مؤسسي رابطة الخريجيين العرب ـ الأميركيين في عام ١٩٦٨، أول مؤسسة عربية أنشأت في أميركا الشمالية ضمت أكبر تجمع للأكاديمين العرب خارج الوطن العربي، ورئيسها لدورتين متتاليتين. وفي عام ١٩٩٨ شارك في تأسيس معهد الدراسات العربية (تاري) في بوسطن وخدم كرئيس لمجلس إدارتها حتى عام ٢٠٠٦. وفي مجال حقوق الإنسان، أيضا، كان الدكتور عاروري عضوا في "الهيئة الفلسطينية المستقلة لحماية حقوق المواطن" في (رام الله) منذ تأسيسها عام ١٩٩٤، وعضوا مؤسسا في الجمعية العربية لحقوق الإنسان في عام ١٩٨٢، ومشاركا رئيسيا في صياغة "الميثاق العربي لحقوق الإنسان" في كانون الأول/ ديسمبر ١٩٨٦، وعضوا في مجلس إدارة منظمة "هيومن رايتس واتش/ الشرق الأوسط" بين عامي ١٩٩٠ ـ ١٩٩٢، وعضوا في مجلس إدارة منظمة العفو الدولية/أميركا "آمنستي إنترناشيونال" لثلاث دورات (١٩٨٤ـ ١٩٩٠). وسيرة ونشاط الدكتور عاروري الحافلة تشمل أيضا عضوية مجلس إدارة "فصلية العالم الثالث" (لندن)، صندوق القدس ـ مركز فلسطين (واشنطن العاصمة)، والمعهد الدولي للتحقيقات الجنائية (لاهاي). وفي سياق نضاله من أجل القضية الفلسطينية والشعب الفلسطيني الذي سخر لهما حياته كلها، دأب الدكتور عاروري على الدعوة لحل الدولة الديمقراطية الواحدة على كامل تراب فلسطين التاريخية يتمتع جميع سكانها بالحرية والعدالة بغض النظر عن الدين والإثنية.
رحل الدكتور نصير عاروري مخلفا ورائه إرثا غنيا من الكتب والدراسات والمقالات نذكر منها: "المقاومة الفلسطينية والإحتلال الإسرائيلي (١٩٧٠)، "عدو الشمس: قصائد المقاومة الفلسطينية" مع إدموند غريب، "الإحتلال: إحتلال إسرائيل لفلسطين" (١٩٨٣)، "عرقلة السلام: الولايات المتحدة، إسرائيل، والفلسطينيين" (١٩٩٥)، "اللاجئون الفلسطينيون: حق العودة" (٢٠٠١)، "الوسيط غير النزيه: دور الولايات المتحدة في إسرائيل وفلسطين" (٢٠٠٣)، "فلسطين والفلسطينيون: تاريخ إجتماعي وسياسي" (٢٠٠٦) مع سميح فرسون، و "الإرث المر: الولايات المتحدة في الشرق الأوسط" (٢٠١٤) .
يذكر أن المكتبة والأوراق الخاصة بالدكتور عاروري تم حفظها ويتم عرضها في مكتبة "كلير تي كارني" للمحفوظات والمجموعات الخاصة في جامعة ماساتشوستس ـ دارتموث.
رحل الدكتور نصير عاروري تاركا ورائه سيرة حافلة بالعمل والعطاء من أجل وطنه وشعبه، ومخلفا ورائه زوجته "جويس" وأبنائه الأربعة فارس، ليلى، جمال، وحاتم، وثلاثة عشر حفيدا.
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February 28th - March 3rd: USPCN joins CODEPINK and others in DC to #ShutDownAIPAC
https://www.facebook.com/events/583300068467490/
Saturday, February 28, 2015
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM - #OneStruggle
at Trinity Lutheran Church
Join Human Rights Lawyer and USPCN co-founder Noura Erakat; Dream Defenders Ahmed Abuznaid, Tef Poe and Tara Thompson from Ferguson, Missouri; founder of Indigenous Resistance, Andrew Curley; and Students Against Israeli Apartheid / USPCN organizer, Tareq Radi, to discuss the similarities between systems of oppression across the globe.
Sunday, March 1, 2015 12:00 - 3:00PM
https://www.popularresistance.org/calendar1/shut-down-aipac/
Rally at the Washington Convention Center
Join activists from around the country to call for an end to Israeli apartheid and to #ShutDownAIPAC! Converge at the Washington Convention Center with mock settlements, a checkpoint, a creative action with 100 Netanyahu Masks and bloody hands, and speakers including Steven Salaita, Ronnie Barkan and Ariel Gold. RSVP here to be a part of this creative action.
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
AIPAC 101 at Busboys and Poets on 5th and K.
Join Miko Peled, Philip Giraldi and Susan Abulhawa to discuss AIPAC’s political power and how best to counter it.
For the full program that runs from Sat 2/28 to Tues 3/3, go to
http://www.codepink.org/shutdownaipac
Samidoun Report: Lina Khattab sentenced to six months in Israeli prison
Feb 16, 2015
Lina Khattab, Palestinian student at Bir Zeit University and folkloric dancer with El Funoun, was sentenced by an Israeli military court at Ofer to six months imprisonment on Monday, 16 February after it convicted her on charges of “throwing stones” and “participating in an unlawful demonstration.” She was also sentenced to a 6000 NIS ($1500 USD) fine and three years probation.
Sahar Francis, executive director of Addameer, earlier told the Electronic Intifada that “they treated Lina as if she is so dangerous, such a serious security threat — this is what makes us believe that they are using her case in order to frighten students from being involved in activism.”
Samidoun will provide updates and actions to continue the demand to free Lina immediately and unconditionally. Please continue to take action and demand Lina’s immediate release.
Free Lina Khattab video! #FreeLinaKhattab
USPCN co-writes letter expressing dismay at public UC Davis condemnation of democratic vote to divest from Israel
Subject: Community concerns regarding UCD administration
Dear Chancellor Katehi,
We are writing to express our support for the Associated Students of UC Davis divestment resolution that passed last Thursday night, and our dismay at your administration’s public condemnation of it. UC Davis now joins the majority of UC campuses, representing tens of thousands of students, as well as UAW Local 2865, which represents over thirteen thousand UC student workers, TAs, GSIs, Readers, and Tutors, who have all passed resolutions to divest from corporations that support and are complicit with Israel’s occupation of Palestine.
We congratulate UC Davis students for opposing racism by voting for divestment. We salute their efforts and persistent display of resilience despite years of censorship, alienation, and criminalization on campus. And we hold your administration, along with previous UC administrations, accountable for the repression and criminalization of such student movements.
Given the UC’s supposed commitment to confronting and rejecting “all manifestations of discrimination,” your administration should be equally proud of this vote calling for global justice and “the inherent dignity of all.” As Arabs dedicated to social justice for all oppressed communities, we support all student efforts in challenging your administration until UC Davis maintain a strong, clear, and principled line of support for student activism, academic freedom and on matters of justice and equity. Yet, we recognize that the UC administration interests do not align with that of the majority of the student population. For communities of color and student activists are consistently reminded that UC Davis administration stands on the side of power, profit, and the police.
As Chancellor, your administration, specifically, has a long history of repression, from calling in the police that infamously pepper sprayed seated students, to bringing retroactive charges against 11 students and a professor who protested the U.S. Bank on campus. You even played a role in bringing police back onto university campuses in your home country of Greece, where police were disallowed since 1974 because of their role in suppressing student dissent. More recently, you forwarded an email you received from the Zionist and racist ADL to the upper UCD administration and police, which called for increased security and “discipline” as a response to pro-Palestinian activities on campus. Let us also not forget your appointment to an FBI advisory board.
A statement released by your administration immediately following the divestment vote falls perfectly in line with this repressive history. The statement suggests that UCD values a diverse community, with “research programs across the globe” and “a community of faculty, researchers and students from everywhere in the world.” Yet the rights of Palestinians are made invisible and UC Davis continues to collaborate with Apartheid Israel despite the fact that it stifles education and freedom for Palestinians.
Your administration’s idea of democratic process does not respect the decision reached by its very own students when that decision challenges the corporate interests of the UC system. It disregards the diverse grassroots student movement that voted against racism. As was and remains clear by the turn out in favor of passing the divestment resolution, Palestine is a global struggle for all people who stand on the side of justice. Students, faculty and workers of all races and backgrounds have expressed unwavering support for this effort.
The administration’s disregard for the passing of the resolution as a victory confirms that UCD policies and practices contradict rhetorical claims of creating a diverse community in which all peoples are valued. And your historic actions contradict your calls for civility.
For indeed, you have shown us time and time again, that you are committed to supporting state violence on campus in order to crush student protest.
On the other hand, the divestment resolution passed by UC Davis students champions the rights and struggle of Palestinians who have endured displacement, ethnic cleansing, and violence by decades of Israeli occupation. Their resolution aligns with a global movement of students and countless others who have chosen to challenge complicity with Israel's apartheid policies and war crimes.
UC Davis students have made history. They join millions who call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions to achieve freedom, justice, and self-determination for the Palestinian people. They build on the history of social movements that have long struggled for liberation here and everywhere.
Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC)
Palestinian Youth Movement-USA Chapter
US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN)
Endorsed By:
Students for Justice in Palestine, University of California Berkeley (CAL-SJP)
International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN)
Act Now to Stop War and End Racism Coalition, San Francisco Bay Area (ANSWER)
Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA)
Professor Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative
American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)
Carlos Villarreal, Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild (NLG) San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
Freedom Archives
Art Forces
USPCN co-sponsored protest of Times of Israel gala in NY
On February 15, 2015, The Times of Israel organized its first “annual gala” at the Waldorf Hotel in New York City “to celebrate the very best of the country we call home.” The Times declared the theme of this inaugural event, “Telling Israel’s Story.”
This “gala,” however, was anything but a honest accounting of the Israeli regime, and USPCN was there, along with Al Awda NY, the main organizer of the response, and dozens of protesters, to set the record straight. We were there to declare: An apartheid state is nothing to celebrate!
The event did not mention the 800,000 Palestinians ethnically cleansed by Zionist forces to create a “Jewish state” on a land with a non-Jewish majority.
It didn’t mention the laws — over 50 and counting — that discriminate against Palestinian citizens of Israel.
It didn’t mention Israeli massacres of thousands of civilians in Gaza, including children, the elderly, and the disabled, designed to terrorize an indigenous population into submission.
It didn’t mention Israel's brutal occupation of the 1967 territories of historic Palestine, with its Apartheid Wall, system of dehumanizing checkpoints, resource theft, and violent “Jewish only” settlements.
It didn’t mention the role Israel plays in protecting Western imperial interests in the Middle East, or in training police from around the world in techniques of surveillance, torture, and population control.
In short, it didn't tell the true story of apartheid Israel.
But it was an important opportunity for defenders of justice for Palestinians to speak truth to power, to make our voices heard over the cynical lies of the Israeli propaganda machine and its U.S. sponsors, and to affirm our support for the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israel (BDS), which demands an end to Israeli military occupation of the 1967 territories, full equality for Palestinian citizens of Israel, and right of return for Palestinian refugees as affirmed by UN resolution 194.
Note: Proceeds from the event in part went to support the Jewish National Fund, one of the primary organizations through which Israel implements its racist control over the land of historic Palestine.
Co-sponsors:
Al-Awda New York: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
Adalah New York: The Campaign for the Boycott of Israel
American Muslims for Palestine
Direct Action Front for Palestine
Existence Is Resistance
International Action Center
International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
International League of People's Struggle - US chapter
International Socialist Organization
Jews for Palestinian Right of Return
Labor for Palestine
Middle East Crisis Committee (CT)
New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA)
NYC Solidarity with Palestine
Princeton for Palestine
Queers Against Israeli Apartheid - NYC
Queer Palestinian Empowerment Network
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
Stop The Jewish National Fund Campaign
Students for Justice in Palestine at Brooklyn College
Students for Justice in Palestine at College of Staten Island
Students for Justice in Palestine at John Jay College
Students for Justice in Palestine at New York University
The Hampton Institute
US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
US Palestinian Community Network
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