the african quarter abuts the great wall of the haram al sharif. seventy or eighty families live in apartments on both sides of a major access street that leads to the dome of the rock and the al aqsa mosque. These apartments are made in and around a four
traditional values and and customs are meeting more modern behaviors within one generation as members of the african palestinian community make new ties to africa and to other africans in israel and palestine.
the african community has extended families who live in jericho and other areas of the west bank and gaza. the community traces its background through its oldest members to moslem pilgrims who came to palestine from chad and western sudan generations ago.
Proposes setting up a formal procedure to implement a divestment policy, and addresses the following possible objections to the measure:
1. Why pick on Israel? There are many human rights abuses around the world, one may say, so why pick this one?
2. Another concern is the issue of 'taking sides'.
3. The issue of 'not wanting to alienate potential allies' – this among putative supporters of an end to the occupation.
4. Some have claimed that any steps toward divestment are aimed at 'the destruction of Israel'…
5. Some people state that 'divestment will never happen, so why waste our time?
6. There is a final, and most troubling, concern: Some who are clearly in sympathy with a divestment inquiry are afraid to speak out publicly, for fear of implicit or explicit retribution.