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What is Caterpillar?
This divestment-target company provides bulldozers to Israel for home demolition.
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What is Little Town of Bethlehem?
The Movie Screened this quarter
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What is the Nakba?
This event marked the displacement of over 700,000 indigenous Palestinians from their homelands, and coincides with the Israeli Declaration of Independence.
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Who is Ben White?
This speaker is a notable British author and journalist.
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Who is Tina Matar?
The Vice President of SJP this year.
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What is apartheid?
This is a policy of segregation and political and economic discrimination used against certain racial groups.
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Who is Mohammad Assaf?
He gained notoriety after winning the 2013 season of Arab Idol
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Who is Mahmoud Abbas?
This man is the current president of the Palestinian Authority.
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Who is Josh Reubner?
This first speaker of the quarter is a director for the US Campaign to End Occupation.
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What is the orange?
This fruit was the economic foundation for the city of Yafa.
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Who is Desmond Tutu?
South African Social Rights Activist that fought for equality in the Republic of South Africa and advocates for divestment today
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What is dabka?
This tradition was created for home construction, but has been used recently during Intifada protests as resistance and a form of cultural preservation.
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Who is David Ben-Gurion?
This first prime minister of Israel is famously quoted to have said "The old will die and the young will forget."
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Who is Barack Obama?
According to Josh Reubner, this US president was the first solid hope for peace brokering between Palestine and Israel.
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What is Handala?
This iconic political cartoon is used to symbolize the occupation's toll on children and their loss of youth.
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What is UC Irvine?
This school was the first UC to pass divestment, by unanimous vote.
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What is "5 Broken Cameras"
This Palestinian film was Oscar-nominated for "Best Documentary", and later won an International Emmy.
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What is the Second Intifada?
This uprising against occupation began in 2000 with the siege of the Dome of the Rock, and ended in 2006.
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Who is Ben White?
This speaker outlined institutionalized forms of discrimination within Israel.
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What is the Irvine 11?
This was the name of a 2010 protest by UCI and UCR students against Israeli ambassador Michael Oren.
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What is Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) movement?
This movement began in 2005 as a nonviolent call to combat apartheid.
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What is the Separation Wall?
The construction of this was a key part of Little Town of Bethlehem
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What is the First Intifada?
This uprising began in 1987 and lasted until 1993, and sparked a call for the 1993 Oslo Accords.
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What is @benabyad?
This British journalist's Twitter handle/username
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What is cotton?
This top-selling crop was the stepping stone for Palestine into the international market in the 1800s.
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