Academic Freedom at Portland State University - Special guests: Joel Beinin and Marvin Kaiser, Nov.
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OLMV - Academic Freedom at Portland State University - Special guests: Joel Beinin and Marvin Kaiser, Nov. 28, 2008
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Special Guests: Stanford University Professor of Middle East History, Joel Beinin, and Dean of College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of Sociology at Portland State University, Marvin Kaiser.
One Land, Many Voices, November 28, 2008, 9:00AM-10:00AM: KBOO Community Radio
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Hosts Hala Gores and William Seaman spend the hour with Stanford University Professor of Middle East History, Joel Beinin, and Dean of College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of Sociology at Portland State University, Marvin Kaiser, talking about academic freedom and the recent hiring controversy at Portland State University. Last week's Willamette Week feature by Beth Slovic ("Tug of War - A Controversial prof creates a skirmish at PSU over academic freedom") provides a glimpse into a job interview process derailed by politics. Professor Beinin ultimately withdrew his name from consideration for the opening at PSU, a great loss for the university and for Portland. Tune in Friday at 9:00 AM to learn more about the "skirmish at PSU", and very special OLMV guests, Professor Joel Beinin and Dean Marvin Kaiser!
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The Shock Doctrine: Israel's Disaster Capitalism
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This week on Crossing The Line: Naomi Klein investigative journalist and author of The Shock Doctrine speaks with economist Shir Hever of the Alternative Information Center about Israel’s role in the disaster capitalism phenomenon, the contradictions in Israeli society, which both profits and suffers from the burdens of being a fortress state in constant conflict, and on the discourse among Israeli economists about the role of peace vs. war in the Israeli economy, then later in the podcast a commentary by The Black Agenda Report's Glenn Ford on the fall of American Imperialism.
Abu Kamel of the al-Kurd family has died two weeks after Israel forcibly evicted him from his home o
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November 23rd, 2008 | Posted in ISM Press Releases, Jerusalem Region
Abu Kamel of the Al-Kurd family, evicted by Israel from their home in Occupied East Jerusalem on the 9th November, has died after suffering from a severe heart-attack.
This comes two weeks after he was taken immediately to hospital following the night-time invasion and forcible eviction from his home of 52 years by Israeli forces.
The funeral will be held at 11am, 23rd November in Sheikh Jarrah, Occupied East Jerusalem.
Suffering from dangerously high blood pressure, in the aftermath of his family’s eviction from the emblematic house in Sheikh Jarrah and consequently being left homeless, 61 year-old Abu Kamel suffered from a deterioration with his long-term health problems and was re-admitted to hospital at around 10pm, Saturday 22nd November. It was soon announced that he had suffered from a heart-attack and died.
Fawzia al-Kurd has now lost her husband and her family home within two weeks due to the Israeli state’s campaign expand Jewish settlements in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood. Despite high-profile formal complaints from the US State department, numerous foreign consulates, and European politicians, who openly questioned the legality of the settlers claims, Israel violently pursued its plans to evict the refugees from 1948.
The price of Israel’s political campaign against the refugees now includes the life of a 61 year-old man. As aide to Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, Haten Abdelkader stated on the 9th November, ” They want to expel Palestinians from Sheikh Jarrah. It is an escalation before the municipal elections,”. He also noted that as the expulsion went ahead even though the decision is being appealed that this “demonstrates the problem is no longer legal, but political.” (AFP)
It should also be noted that after having been made refugees from West Jerusalem in 1948, the al-Kurd family were subsequently made refugees a second and third time as Israel evicted them from their home on the 9th November before proceeding to destroy the tent that was established on the 19th November.
The health of Abu Kamel was central to the Israeli campaign to occupy the al-Kurd house. In 2001, as the family was abroad in Jordan visiting Abu Kamel while he was receiving treatment, settlers broke into part of the family home that they have continued to occupy ever since.
The Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem was built by the UN and Jordanian government in 1956 to house Palestinian refugees from the 1948 war. The al-Kurd family began living in the neighbourhood after having been made refugees from Jaffa and West Jerusalem. However, with the the start of the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem, following the 1967 war, settlers began claiming ownership of the land the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood was build on.
Stating that they had purchased the land from a previous Ottoman owner in the 1800s, settlers claimed ownership of the land. In 1972 settlers successfully registered this claim with the Israeli Land Registrar. While the al-Kurds family continued legal proceedings challenging the settlers claim, the settlers started filing suits against the Palestinian family.
In 2006, the court ruled the settlers claim void, recognizing it was based on fraudulent documents. Subsequently, the Al-Kurd family lawyer petitioned the Israeli Land Registrar to revoke the settlers registration of the land and state the correct owner of the land. Although it did revoke the settlers claim, the Israeli land Registrar refused to indicate the rightful owner of the land.
In 2001 settlers began occupying an extension of the al-Kurd home. Despite the fact that their claim to the land was revoked, settlers were given the keys of the al-Kurds family home extension by the local Israeli municipality. This was possible after the municipality had confiscated the keys of the extension that the al-Kurd family built on their property to house the natural expansion of the family.
When this extension was declared illegal by Israeli authorities, the Israeli municipality handed the keys over to Israeli settlers. The al-Kurd family went to court and an eviction order was issued against the settlers. When the al-Kurd family were evicted on the 9th November 2008, the settlers were allowed to remain in the property, despite their own eviction order.
In July 2008 the Israeli Supreme Court ordered the eviction of the al-Kurd family, for their refusal to pay rent to the settlers for use of the land. Although the settlers claim to the land had been revoked two years earlier, the court instead based their decision on an agreement made between a previous lawyer and the settlers. It should be noted that the al-Kurd family -and the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood as a whole- rejected this agreement and fired their legal representative at the time.
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Abu Kamel of the al-Kurd family has died two weeks after Israel forcibly evicted him from his home of 52 years
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Dozens of armed Israeli settlers attack Palestinian-owned property in Hebron
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Witnesses said that the settlers punched wheels of parking cars, smashed windows of houses and hurled stones at Palestinian houses.
Israeli media sources reported that the Israeli army chief of the middle area in the West Bank had earlier met with the settlers leaders, calling on them to evacuate a Palestinian house, the Israeli high court ordered its eviction.
However, the settlers did not comply and vandalized the neighborhood, where the said house is located.
The Palestinian Hebron Reconstruction Committee had succeeded in extracting the said high court's ruling after settlers took over the house of Alrejbi family in Hebron in March 2007.
Owner of the Palestinian building, Fayez Alrejby, has repeatedly appealed to the court, since his building was confiscated by the Israeli settlers.
Currently, there are more than 400 Israeli settlers in the West Bank city of Hebron, which has been widely known as a flashpoint between Palestinian residents and settlers, despite heavy presence of the Israeli military.
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The Chinese ambassador at the United Nations, Tchangh Ya Sui, called on Israel Wednesday to allow humanitarian supplies in Gaza, as Gaza's crossings remain closed for more than two weeks now.
The Chinese diplomat was quoted as calling on the international
community to continue flow of food supplies to the Gaza Strip, under a
strict Israeli closure of border crossings.
The ambassador also expressed his concern over the deteriorated humanitarian conditions in Gaza.