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Palestinian Students - Renewing the Spirit of Resistance
Photos, Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, March 13th, 2007

Since autumn 2006, the Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign has organized seminars and tours with the students in 7 universities all over the West Bank.
The courses include lectures on the history of their struggle and the roots, aims and tactics of Zionism in implementing apartheid and expulsion policies in Palestine. Discussions about the role of students in the struggle from its beginnings until today lead into strategizing sessions on how to go ahead.
The students are encouraged to discuss ways in which their studies and research can contribute to the national liberation struggle and what forms of action can be taken by the youth to fight Israeli colonialism and Apartheid and to take ownership within the Palestinian struggle.

A new generation has to prepare to continue the struggle and to determine their future.

Above: In the small office of Dar Qandeel, a local independent youth group, students from Al Quds Open University in Tulkarem take part in a three day seminar. Over this period students have the time to exchange their ideas and suggestions to strengthen the struggle of the students within the universities and as part of the national liberation movement. The refusal of normalization with the Occupation and boycott as a tool to support Palestinian society and maintain the spirit of resistance in daily life are among the key issues raised within the discussions.

Above: Students from Birzeit are together in a tour to the Wall in the north of the West Bank, which many of them haven't been able to see so far as checkpoints and roadblocks make movement even within the West Bank an arduous endeavor. Next to the closed gate in Mas�ha that appropriates Palestinian land and annexes Zionist settlements, they meet Hani Amer. A farmer whose land is confiscated, his house is imprisoned by the walls from all sides and still he and his family resist on the only few square meters left to them.

Above: On the way back they discuss their impressions and the meetings with the farmers and people that are carrying the Palestinian struggle on their shoulders, remaining steadfast on their land despite all oppression, dispossession and humiliation. Do our parties and leaders know about the reality we are facing? How can they give so much importance to their infighting when national unity is urgently needed to stop our ghettoization from being finalized?

Above: After hours of harassment and intimidation attempts, the students from Jericho Al Quds Open University finally reach the area around Jerusalem. Hardly anybody has seen Jerusalem before and nobody is allowed to enter as they look beyond the horrific walls that divide and cleanse the Palestinian capital from Palestinians. On the other side, Zionist settlements grow on Palestinian land.

Above: On the other side of the Wall, occupation forces are being taken for a tour along the Apartheid Wall. Presumably, a training course on propaganda and how to make the best use of the Apartheid Wall within the Zionist project of ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem.

Above: After the Campaign seminar, the youth of Tulkarem have arranged a boycott trade fair in Tulkarem Refugee Camp. The youth club inaugurates the fair and calls for boycott of the occupation's products with a demonstration through the camp. Students in Birzeit, Qalqliyia, Tulkarem and Salfit have taken up the call for boycott in their own universities, ensuring that no Israeli products are sold there. (For more click here. )

Above: Students in Jenin American University have prepared a conference and exhibit in their university. Taking up a general concern in the district, they have displayed the photos of the Wall and invited a series of speakers to protest the neglect for Jenin district by the national leadership. With lots of media coverage it was an important contribution to the national discussion. (For more click here.)