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As a student studying abroad during Thanksgiving, being away from family can be hard. Being in Palestine for this holiday, however, takes on a new meaning when considering the shared histories and realities of colonialism and ethnic cleansing of indigenous populations in both the United States and Palestine.
The first signs of what was to come Sunday morning came when I saw a group of elementary-aged boys throwing rocks at an unseen target down towards the apartheid wall surrounding Abu Dis.
As we were waiting for the other students to arrive, our professor casually asked us if we saw the demolition of a Palestinian home going on outside the main gates of campus on our way in. Having been dropped off at one of the bottom gates, I didn’t see anything, but all of a sudden the booms I heard on my way in made sense, as did the missing students in class.
For some reason, we are conditioned to praise those who argue that an issue is too complex to take a position. This approach may indeed be useful in interpersonal conflicts, but when it comes to situations of oppression and injustice, the moral bankruptcy of this stance becomes clear.
I have plans to meet up with a friend in Jerusalem and climb onto the bus. It takes about 30 minutes to travel from Beit Lahm (Bethlehem) to Jerusalem, depending on traffic. We pull away from the sidewalk to make our way up and down the hills of Beit Jala until we reach an overlook with a busy highway below.
Liberalism asserts a false dichotomy between the public and private spheres, ignoring the fact that oppression and injustice are systematic functions of society and operate in all aspects of life. There exists a similarly false dichotomy between the academic and the political.
About 200 yards away from the entrance to Al Quds University — where I am studying abroad this semester — stands Israel’s 26-foot-high Apartheid Wall, which runs through the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Abu Dis and cuts it and its residents off from the rest of Jerusalem.
Like many Penn students this summer, I, too, traveled to Palestine/Israel. I brought back a cardboard Israeli bullet canister (it looks like a toilet paper roll) that I picked up off the ground among many others and scattered teargas canisters in the West Bank community of Bil’in. The teargas canisters were manufactured in Jamestown, Pa. Bil’in residents have been nonviolently protesting the illegal Israeli apartheid wall being built through their community since 2005, but these protests have been met with extreme violence from the Israeli army.