Adalah’s News
24 October 2022
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Adalah’s Palestinian Law Students’ Camp returns
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Law students and Adalah staff at Adalah's 15th Palestinian law students' camp
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Adalah held its 15th Palestinian law students' camp from October 6-8, 2022, in Beit Jala in the West Bank, after a two-year hiatus. 45 law students attended the camp, which was held this year as part of Adalah’s commemoration of its 25th anniversary. The camp’s theme was "Racial Discrimination and Cause Lawyering".
The camp brought together Palestinian law students studying in Israeli and Palestinian universities and colleges to hold critical discussions in Arabic on legal and human rights topics and practices that the students rarely have the chance to engage in, particularly those studying in Israeli law schools.
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Over the course of three days, the camp featured lectures, panel discussions, and workshops on topics that shed light on Israel's racist practices and violations of the rights of Palestinians in Israel and in the OPT, and the dilemmas faced by human rights lawyers.
Law professors, lawyers, journalists, and human rights defenders and activists discussed high-profile cases with the students that triggered worldwide interest and debates, such as the attempts to forcibly displace the residents of Masafer Yatta, and the killing of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh. The participants also discussed the crime of apartheid in international law, land and planning policies in the Naqab (Negev) and East Jerusalem, and the denial of economic and social rights of Palestinians as a deliberate policy of collective punishment.
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The camp opened with a tour of three villages near Beit Jala, whose residents face enormous hardships as a result of the surrounding settlements' expansion into their villages, the frequent attacks by Jewish Israeli settlers, and the Separation Wall, which restricts their movement and which confiscated their lands.
Following the tour, the students watched the short Palestinian feature film "The Present". The film depicts Israel's racist and abusive practices in the West Bank, and in particular the restrictions on Palestinians' right of movement through the military checkpoints and the Separation Wall.
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See more photos from Adalah's Law Students' Camp on our Instagram page.
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