From Alternative Information Center:
According to the Jerusalem online newspaper Mynet, Hebrew University’s Student Union Chairperson, Ofer Raviv, recently recommended that a Separation Wall between the university’s Mount Scopus campus and the nearby Palestinian village of Issawiya be constructed.
Hebrew University officials suggested that such a wall could be financed by the parking meters located on Mount Scopus and the Jerusalem Municipality has agreed to examine this possibility. If implemented, this would be just one more action in Hebrew University’s long tradition of documented institutional participation in the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, this time at the instigation of its official student body.
… Ostensibly as a means for reducing thefts on campus, the wall would serve as one more level of constriction and separation that is already the reality for the Issawiya villagers. Security arguments have long been used by Israel as a means to intensify the occupation and confiscation of Palestinian land.
Thanks to Seham.
