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Womack said that Birzeit University in the West Bank had been closed repeatedly for indeterminate amounts of time and some of its buildings have been destroyed...
Herein lies a special irony, since the Committee on Palestine's protest was intended to point out Israeli repression of Palestinians in the occupied territories. Palestinian universities, such as Birzeit and Al-Najah on the West Bank, have been closed by Israeli military order for more than three years. The Israeli military has demolished hundreds of Palestinian homes as a form of collective punishment. These are precisely the facts that COP wanted to bring home to the Harvard community with our signs...
...Taysir Aruri, former lecturer in physics at Birzeit University in the West Bank, said residents in Israel, the Occupied Territories and the Middle East as a whole favor a two-state peace resolution...
...surprised. They had a very fully developed English department--courses like 'Victorian Prose Writers.' And it's not as dangerous as it might sound... But it's viewed with suspicion by the Israeli government as sort of a hotbed of Palestinian revolutionary thought." Hesford decided against Birzeit, he says, because he asked himself, "If you're over there, how do you get back?' Unless of course you want to spend your life in exile." He pauses, then adds, "But if nothing else came through...
Hesford was lucky. A day after he declined the Birzeit offer, he got a call from Union College in Schenectady, offering him a oneyear position there. He accepted the job with relief although it means he'll probably have to begin the same frustrating search all over again next year. Nowadays, however, not all cases like Hesford's have even such a temporarily happy ending. Declining enrollments, a generally sluggish economy and shrinking university budgets are making it more and more difficult for graduate students--even Harvard graduate students--to find the kind of academic positions that were relatively plentiful...