{"id":4431,"date":"2023-12-07T21:24:42","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T21:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bethlehem.i72dev.com\/?p=4431"},"modified":"2023-12-13T16:54:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T16:54:00","slug":"statement-from-bethlehem-university-on-the-current-situation-in-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethlehem.i72dev.com\/fr\/2023\/12\/07\/statement-from-bethlehem-university-on-the-current-situation-in-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u00e9claration d'octobre de l'Universit\u00e9 de Bethl\u00e9em sur la situation actuelle en Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“We teach life…sir” Rafeef Ziyadeh<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

As a leading institution of higher education in Palestine, Bethlehem University is not merely a witness to the unfolding horrors in Gaza and the West Bank; we are committed to upholding the truth and shaping a better future. In line with the mission, vision and values of Bethlehem University, we find ourselves morally and ethically compelled to raise our voices against the ongoing genocidal war and terrorist attacks perpetrated by Israel and Zionist settlers.<\/p>\n

We as educators committed to \u201cteaching Life\u201d are outraged at the unfolding and increasingly horrifying scenes of death that we are helplessly witnessing coming out of Gaza.\u00a0 The war against the Palestinian people has been ongoing for the past 75 years marked by genocide and ethnic cleansing. However, the past ten days have seen schools, universities, homes, apartment buildings, and now a major hospital being bombed. This latest horror, of targeting innocent civilians in Gaza, has reached an unprecedented level of evil.\u00a0 Entire families have been wiped out;\u00a0 entire neighborhoods are flattened; hospitals are threatened and now bombed indiscriminately against all international conventions.\u00a0 Regardless of color, creed, ethnicity, or race, all human life is precious, of equal value, and should be protected.<\/p>\n

We vehemently condemn the indiscriminate violence that the Israeli war machine has inflicted upon Palestinians in Gaza, the destruction of educational and religious institutions, and the blatant disregard for human life and international law. The scenes of carnage are further amplified by the devastating silence of the \u201chumanitarian\u201d west and the silencing of voices that are trying to counter the lies and the spread of anti-Palestinian propaganda.<\/p>\n

In these dire circumstances, we reaffirm our commitment to \u201cteach Life.\u201d We echo the words of the Kairos Palestine Document 2009, which warns against the \u201cselective application of international law\u201d that leaves us vulnerable to a \u201claw of the jungle.\u201d\u00a0 We call upon local and international intellectuals and academicians to stand firm against the demonization and dehumanization of a people to the point of forced displacement and genocide.\u00a0 We also condemn all expressions of selective moral outrage that obscure the pain and suffering of Palestinian victims as well as the structural injustices that give rise to violence in the first place.<\/p>\n

The Palestinian people have long suffered under the \u201claw of the jungle\u201d of occupation. The time has come for all who believe in justice to rise against this outrage by speaking out, demanding justice, and the affirmation of human rights.\u00a0 What is happening is an affront to all the morals and values that are accepted by conscientious human beings worldwide.\u00a0 We, at Bethlehem University will continue to teach life, and life to the fullest, to the best of our ability; for each of our students, for each of us, for Palestine, for the world and for the future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"class_list":["post-4431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-media-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethlehem.i72dev.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethlehem.i72dev.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethlehem.i72dev.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethlehem.i72dev.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethlehem.i72dev.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4431"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bethlehem.i72dev.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4476,"href":"https:\/\/bethlehem.i72dev.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431\/revisions\/4476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethlehem.i72dev.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethlehem.i72dev.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethlehem.i72dev.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}