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Related: About this forumHarvard Students Find Fake Eviction Notices For Israeli Apartheid Week
March 6, 2013
(JTA) -- The posting of mock eviction notices on the doors of Harvard students to publicize the campus Israeli Apartheid Week has sparked a campus debate.
The flyers, which said that the rooms were scheduled for demolition in the next three days, were posted on student's dormitory doors on March 2, the Harvard Crimson campus student newspaper reported.
The notices posted by the Harvard College Palestine Solidarity Committee were meant to make students think about what the committee believes is an unlawful displacement of Palestinians from their homeland at the hands of the Israeli government, according to the newspaper.
The mock eviction flyers also were posted in 2010, according to the Crimson, but did not generate as much controversy.
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azurnoir
(45,850 posts)well I guess the ADL does support free speech at that , well unless........
copy of the "intimidating" notices
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Good thing the ADL is above that sort of thing.
Although I must give them credit for recognizing that this is a free speech issue.
aranthus
(3,385 posts)The notice describes the eviction as unrealistically harsh. But that's because the notices are unrealistic. What they suggest is that Palestinians get no more notice of the evictions and no more chance to do anything about it than the recipients of the fake notices. That isn't true, and the people posting the notices almost certainly know that. So they are lying by ommission.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)aware of how often the Israeli government despite injunctions by their High Court raid and
evict.
Talk about lying by omission..actually, that would be deceive by omission.
aranthus
(3,385 posts)If you are refering to house demolitions of terror suspects, then I don't think that the occupants get even an eviction notice. This stunt looks more like the various evictions in Jerusalem which are governed by court proceedings. If you have evidence to the contrary I'd appreciate seeing it.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)injunctions and then Bibi suddenly says...security! The evictions have come even when tents are placed
in protest by Palestinian's on their land.
Please, if you have any interest go google it yourself.
aranthus
(3,385 posts)I did quickly find two such instances on Google. There may be more. One involves a protest village in the E-1 area. The other is about villages in an area that the IDF wants to use for firing exercises. In neither case did the government simply issue three day notices to leave. There have been lengthy legal fights about both evictions. The government lost both times and is going ahead anyway. That's troubling, but that isn't the point of the Harvard stunt. Instead they meant to suggest that there was only three days notice of any eviction at all. That isn't true.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)I'm overwhelmed by your sense of feeling troubled by the Israeli government's actions.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)okay the flyer had to contain every detail about this to be what-honest yes perhaps it should have it could have gone into how the Palestinians can go to the Israeli court system and hold things up at least until some demonstration over the eviction starts doesn't matter who starts it and then the area gets declared a closed military zone after which it is under auspices of IDF
aranthus
(3,385 posts)They want to complain about something, at least present it accurately.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)aranthus
(3,385 posts)I'm not trying to mislead, and I welcome being corrected when I'm wrong on the facts.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)too: the construction of an apartheid wall in the Science Center Plaza meant to evoke images of Israel's security fence.
I hope to see pics of it.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Cambridge will never be the same.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)You wouldn't be in this thread if activity like this didn't threaten you but try and remember this
is non-violent political activism.
Perhaps your like minded at palwatch will keep track of the numbers attending, then you
can post it for them.