Beaten For Being… Palestinian

Filed under: Media, International, Palestine — Eman at 4:06 pm on Thursday, January 25, 2007

“Three football players at Guilford College, a school with a Quaker background, face assault and ethnic intimidation charges after an attack on three Palestinian students, authorities said.
The victims were beaten with fists, feet and brass knuckles early Saturday by attackers who called them “terrorists” and used racial slurs, the News & Record of Greensboro reported Tuesday.
The college will allow the three to remain on campus while it conducts its own investigation.
Two of the students who were attacked, Faris Khader and Osama Sabbah, are students at Guilford. The third, Omar Awartani, is a student at North Carolina State University in Raleigh who was visiting.”
[Source: Yahoo News -passed to me by Jimbo-]

All I can say is: it has always been, and it’ll always be the average Palestinian who’ll pay the price.
Thanks to the media for portraying Palestinians as dangerous terrorists, thanks to Israeli extremists for brainwashing the crowds, and thanks to Fatah & Hamas for reflecting such a shitty picture of Palestinians by fighting each other in such an irresponsible stupid way.

More:
Alleged brawlers and accusers asked to move off campus

Guilford College’s Updated Response to Bryan Hall Incident

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Comment by Imannnnn

January 31, 2007 @ 4:42 pm

I no longer feel surprised when I come across such news items… Before such incidents caused me shock and distress,, but today no more. It is not because I do not sympathize with the Palestinian cause like many may think. What will surprise me is a news item which will tackle a good and hard response to all this violence we suffer from the west, the violence, the categorization, the objectification, the monsterization of Arabs, Muslims, “the other” non-western… We expect no change in the West attitude… We need to defend ourselves and our identity

Comment by Eman

February 1, 2007 @ 4:53 pm

Iman, thanks for the comment.
I agree with you that all those bad and unfair reactions come to no one’s surprise, but I have to admit that I still get mad when hearing such news!

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