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As part of its ongoing assault on Palestinian life and institutions, the Israeli occupying army carried out a military invasion of Birzeit University during official working hours, at a time when the campus was filled with students, faculty members, and staff. The invasion was premeditated and coincided with a student union protest against the settler-colonial army’s violence against our people and its policy of mass…

The scenic campus of Birzeit University sits on a hill near Ramallah, 12 miles northwest of Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank. Vast blue sky is visible from every road and sidewalk. Palestinian flags wave in the breeze.

My name is Randa Nasir Ajlouny. I was born in 1974 and have lived in Ann Arbor since 1998. My husband, Paul, and I have two girls: Nadia who graduated from Michigan State in 2024 and Zeina who is attending Washtenaw Community College. Both of my girls went through the Ann Arbor Public schools – Bryant/Pattengill, Tappan Junior High, and then Pioneer high school. They…