One student shares her experience of being wrongfully imprisoned after October 7, and what happened next.
A Palestinian student studying at an Israeli university looks out across the Haifa seafront That's according to Adalah, a Haifa-based independent human rights organisation and legal centre, representing Arab minority rights in Israel.Posts that expressed solidarity with Gaza residents, or included verses from the Quran or prayers for the victims of the war, have led to arrests, imprisonment and school actions.
The campus isn't far from my home. I usually catch a public bus and take the 15-minute ride. The university has around 40 percent Arab students, and classes are taught in Hebrew. I have Israeli colleagues and until now I never thought much about personal safety travelling to and from classes until the incident happened.
Many Palestinian students in Israeli universities reported receiving letters telling them they are expelled from school due to their pro Palestinian social media postsDuring that session, university officials showed a screenshot of my post. I realised then that one of my fellow students, who is friends with me on Instagram, had taken a screenshot of the story and filed a complaint with the university. No one approached me or said anything to me directly; they went straight to the university.
That first night, I was given a very wet blanket and a mattress that couldn't even be opened, making it impossible to sleep on. 89 instances of staff and students investigated or suspended in Israeli universities. Plus a petition to suspend 25 members of staff at the University of Haifa. Plus Palestinians students and members of staff branded as 'enemies'.It was a very difficult and painful experience, but what I have encountered is only a taste of what Palestinian prisoners struggle with on a daily basis.
Media coverage | After loosening restrictions on gun licensing by far-right ministers, mass arming in Israel has resulted in many Israelis openly carrying weapons everywhere, including in universities.They signed petitions stating that they would not accept studying with"terrorist supporters" at the university. But eventually, they got tired and stopped.
Yes Arabs and Israelis study together here, but personally, I do not have Israeli friends; they are just colleagues. All of my friends are Palestinian, and I think this is the situation in general. We rarely see Arabs and Israelis being friends.Palestinians have been studying at Israeli universities for decades. My father completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at an Israeli university, and my older sister also did her undergrad there.
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