History has shown that actions toward peace and social justice are often met by resistance. Inequality's beneficiaries perceive efforts to change the "common sense" as direct threats to their comfortable positions. As long-time peace activists we are no strangers to the backlash that always seems to follow any attempt to humanize Palestinians within the U.S. consciousness.

While Palestinians, Israelis and the rest of the world do not find it difficult to engage in critical discourse about Israel/Palestine, this is a discussion that too often finds itself off limits in the U.S. It is our hope that Palestine Week at UNC helps in changing these attitudes, difficult as it we may find this work at times.

From: dicklionheart@yahoo.com
Sent: 01/30/2008 at 07:02 PM from 75.75.4.236

Name: Richard the Lionheart
Comment: Fuck "Palestinians" who are in fact just garden variety Arabs, albeit with an even greater bloodthirtiness than your average jihadi. Let the Jews kill 'em all.

From: oysgeshpilt@yahoo.com
Sent: 01/30/2008 at 12:42 PM from 160.36.194.22

Name: Alex Hardy
Comment: Hi. This thing has been popping up on all the blogs pointing out how sick and fucked up UNC is. I just wanna say, I agree with them. You southern liberals need to go to the northeast and see those liberals who you secretly wish to emulate. They're nothing like you and haven't fallen for the propaganda of anti-semites

From: run1500@yahoo.com
Sent: 01/30/2008 at 10:20 AM from 209.217.82.242

Name: Ehud Barak
Comment: This is what happens to your friends from Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Good riddance.

Line up the virgins!

Senior Islamic Jihad commander dies in IAF strike in Gaza City

By Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondent and The Associated Press

Tags: Israel Air Force, Gaza

An Israel Air Force strike after nightfall Monday killed a senior Islamic Jihad commander, prompting threats from the militant group to carry out suicide bombings in Israel.

The IAF fired missiles at a car laden with explosives in Gaza City Monday, killing two militants and setting off a huge blast that was heard around the city, witnesses and hospital officials said.

Medical officials said a third militant had been critically wounded in the strike.

Medical workers said the attack also wounded two bystanders.

Hours later, a second IAF strike in Gaza City killed three additional Islamic Jihad militants, including a chief rocket maker, in the southern part of Gaza City. The Israel Defense Forces spokesman said the men had fired rockets toward Israel.

The IDF said the target of the first airstrike was Majed Harazin, a senior Islamic Jihad militant in charge of rocket squads responsible for incessant barrages of Qassam rockets against southern Israel.

According to defense officials, Harazin was the one who determined the timing and the targets of Qassam and mortar shell attacks against Israel.

Islamic Jihad spokesman Khaled el-Batch confirmed that Harazin was killed in the attack.

Harazin was a top Islamic Jihad commander for both the West Bank and Gaza, Palestinians said, and he rarely traveled in vehicles for fear of an Israeli airstrike. He was on Israel's wanted list for nine years, they said.

The group's armed wing said in a statement "the assassination of the general commander will open the door wide to a wave of martyrdom operations."

Hundreds of Islamic Jihad gunmen gathered in the streets and fired into the air after the attack.

Islamic Jihad supporters gathered around the morgue and pledged revenge. "The blood of our comrades will be the fuel for the rockets that will bring death and destruction to the Zionists," Islamic Jihad spokesman Abu Hamza told reporters.

Palestinian officials said Harazin was the most senior militant commander to be killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza in more than a year.

Israel often targets militants in airstrikes, aiming for squads involved in daily rocket fire toward southern Israel.

Hamas radio said the targeted car was filled with explosives and warned people to stay away, but people crowded around the burning vehicle. Witnesses said the initial blast was followed by smaller explosions after the car was hit while slowing down near a mosque.

From: ejackso1@maine.rr.com
Sent: 01/30/2008 at 09:36 AM from 24.97.54.98

Name: Ed Jackson
Comment: As a native of NC, I am totally outraged that my state university is sponsoring this garbage. I live out of state now and have always been an NC booster- NOT ANYMORE!!! I truely have reason to be ashamed of my native state.

From: Emski32@aol.com
Sent: 01/30/2008 at 09:08 AM from 205.188.116.69

Name: Emski32
Comment: Just curious to know when you will hold a Darfur week on campus, charging Sudan's Arab Jihadist Government with genocide. 400,000 dead blacks and counting, but it's always easier to go after the Jews isn't it. Where are the Arab Students Union demos against this mass murder? You guys are not only a joke. You are complicit by your silence in the genocide of blacks. You are a bunch of phony hippocrits that actually think of yourselves as moral agents. Ha, ha, ha, ha. You are pathetic actually.

From: patrickfarrington@yahoo.com
Sent: 01/30/2008 at 09:03 AM from 168.98.67.23

Name: Patrick Farrington
Comment: Bring your own Kassam rockets? Or will UNC provide?

From: eatmyshit@fuckyou.com
Sent: 01/30/2008 at 09:02 AM from 141.214.17.5

Name: Fuck You
Comment: Wow, another bunch of Koranimals are making noise about a non-existent land and non-existent people. Amazing what Jew hatred can produce. Have a nice day, losers.

From: katzj@olin.wustl.edu
Sent: 01/30/2008 at 08:41 AM from 128.150.23.167

Name: Jordan
Comment: There’s no such thing as ‘Palestine’, it’s a name that was made up by the Romans when they occupied the ancestral Jewish homeland. The arabs that live there are all of Jordanian, Syrian, Lebanese and Egyptian origin. They have no culture other than an irrational hate for Jews and a propensity towards violence. They could have had a state for themselves several times and rejected all offers. The West Bank (aka Judea and Samaria) are NOT occupied territories, it is land that Israel won in defensive wars, wars that were aimed to exterminate the Jewish state. The Palestinian populace freely elected Hamas, a terrorist organization, to rule them. How can you support a people that instigates violence against innocent women and children? If anything, you should be spreading awareness about the Israelis in Sderot who are being bombarded by Palestinian rockets on a daily basis. If you weren’t spoon-fed by the arab propaganda machine in the media, you know, the one that stages blackouts and humanitarian crises, I think you’d realize that the real victims are the Jews.

From: zeigfriedwhiffle@yahoo.com
Sent: 01/30/2008 at 08:39 AM from 12.199.244.100

Name: Ziggy
Comment: Are any festivities scheduled at the Pit????

From: davedrawsgood@yahoo.com
Sent: 01/30/2008 at 08:39 AM from 24.98.218.235

Name: Dave Washburn
Comment: God bless the religion of peace!!

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/

From: rflaa@santarosa.edu
Sent: 01/30/2008 at 08:37 AM from 198.189.141.245

Name: Mike Flaa
Comment: OH MY GOD, you effing morons..........LOL!

From: mrbindo@yahoo.com
Sent: 01/30/2008 at 05:58 AM from 69.206.247.190

Name: Mike
Comment: Please send me an invite when you have ISRAEL week. Thanks.

From: abir.mandal@gmail.com
Sent: 01/30/2008 at 05:56 AM from 24.115.118.31

Name: Abir Mandal
Comment: Thank you for supporting terrorists. Muslims are not the real enemies of America. You people, in the guise of being 'liberals' are.

America will never forgive you this treachery. Hope you can live woth that.

From: Tamerlane1100@yahoo.com
Sent: 01/30/2008 at 05:00 AM from 149.32.192.33

Name: Bob Sergeant
Comment: Philisitine Week? Good idea, very appropriate. Make sure there are lots of Kalashinikovs available so everyone can fire celebration volleys into the air.

From: Adolf@thirdreich.org
Sent: 01/30/2008 at 04:57 AM from 86.138.128.157

Name: Adolf Hitler
Comment: Thanks for carrying on with my work!

From: rbamerican1@yahoo.com
Sent: 01/30/2008 at 03:23 AM from 24.31.216.44

Name: jeff
Comment: palestinians deserve their misfortune. child killers .

From: meghan.moss@yahoo.com
Sent: 01/30/2008 at 03:08 AM from 76.177.209.33

Name: Meghan
Comment: I hope you don't fail to mention all of the rocket launches into Israel from "Palestine" and the violent mindset cultivated there that has many of them bent on martydom.

Nothin' like celebrating killing Jews, no?

From: gahada2001@yayoo.com
Sent: 01/30/2008 at 01:54 AM from 76.6.213.16

Name: Arne
Comment: If the Pals stopped shooting rockets into Israel; and forswear racist polemics against Jews, there would be peace. Not satisfying, in a bloodbath away, but peace all the same.

From: Palestiniansdontexist@yahoo.com
Sent: 01/29/2008 at 10:48 PM from 76.175.118.65

Name: Palestinians are a myth.
Comment: There has never been a Palestinian country,people, language or society. Israel was re-named Palestine by the Romans and has no Arab connections. Jews were the first to be called Palestinians.

The terrorist Arabs are occupying Jewish land and should go back to Arabia where they came from.

END THE ARAB OCCUPATION OF JEWISH LAND NOW!

From: mrmarks@prodigy.net
Sent: 01/29/2008 at 09:03 PM from 76.214.201.254

Name: Mike Marks
Comment: Let me know when you will have Israel week. I will attend .

Name: Rob K
Comment: A rah-rah session for Palestine?

This is a joke, right?

Name: Michael Jordan
Comment: There are no such poeple as palestinians... they are trans-jordanians and egyptians... Philistines were greek peoples... your planned week is anti-Jew and nothing else. I am now a Duke fan.