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This past Monday, the Society of Arab Students (SAS), the Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice (HIPJ) and the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard (CLUH) sponsored a speech and presentation by Amer Jubran, a pro-Palestinian activist whose final deportation trial was held yesterday in Boston...
...present danger. The footage obtained showed that Jubran and other activists participating in local pro-Palestinian and anti-war rallies were being systematically followed as far back as 2001. We highlighted Jubran’s case because his circumstances are emblematic of this concerted intimidation of immigrants, especially of Arab descent, and of Palestinian activists...
...agree or disagree with his views—and members of SAS and HIPJ have a range of views about the conflict. This should not detract from the main issue: an Arab immigrant and pro-Palestinian peace activist is being targeted because he dared to raise his voice in this country...
Reconciliation between campus groups on opposite sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict is crucial if we are to come to an understanding. However, ignoring injustice in the U.S. and sitting back while the current American administration chips away at our civil liberties is not the way to achieve the mutual understanding that can lead to peace...
...Habib ’07, who lives in Grays Hall, is a member of the Society of Arab Students. Suvrat Raju, a second-year graduate student in the physics department, and Alexandra B. Vanier ’03-’05, a folklore and mythology concentrator in Lowell House, are members of the Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice...