Al-Quds Open University apologizes for flier that does not show “Palestine” as including all of Israel together with the PA areas

Images and text posted on the official Fatah Facebook page

The image shows the map approved by Al-Quds Open University, which shows “Palestine” as including all of Israel together with the PA areas and the Gaza Strip. Colors mark the university’s branches in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

The image shows the West Bank and Gaza Strip on the university’s flier, noting the location of the university’s branches. In the bottom right is an illustration of the Dome of the Rock. This does not show “Palestine” as including all of Israel together with the PA areas and the Gaza Strip – which is what led to protests.

Posted text: "An explanation issued by the Al-Quds Open University administration

A number of social media networks have published a flier for high school graduates that includes an illustration of the university's branches in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Despite the illustration being for information purposes regarding only the distribution of these branches, the intent is not the geographical map of Palestine that we study in our curricula and learn by heart. This university is soaked in the blood of Martyrs, and foremost among them founding Martyr [former PLO Chairman and PA President] Yasser Arafat, and it is the national hothouse that unifies and supports the prisoners and the support for all of our people's rights.

Accordingly, the university clarifies the following:

1. The university apologizes for this publication,despite the illustration being for information purposes and it does not represent the map of Palestine, but rather only the university's branchesthat are distributed in the West Bank and Gaza.
2. The university published its instructions regardingthe cessation of using the aforementioned publication.
3. The attached publication was published by one of [the university’s] centers without coordination with the authorized bodies to receive the university administration's permission for doing so.
4. There is a map of Palestine from the [Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea which the university relies on in all of its various centers, branches, and departments, and which it uses in all of its publications.
5. Al-Quds Open University published an official and clear position of its academic, administrative, union, and student sectors a number of days ago, and it led central activities regarding the deal of the century (i.e., US President Donald Trump's Middle East peace plan; see note below) like the rest of the national institutions that are adhering to our firm national foundations, which are at the forefront of the struggle defending our rights that will not be satisfied by division or abandonment.
6. We request from everyone that loves and is dedicated not to be dragged after those that are attempting to harm the homeland's universitythat instills in our children’s souls the love of sacrifice and self-sacrifice for the homeland with its lofty message, as there are required courses that were approved in the academic program for all of the students, including: 'Palestine and the Palestinian Cause,' 'Jerusalem's History,' and 'The Palestinian Prisoners’ Movement.'

*Note: The map approved by the university administration is attached"

Yasser Arafat

The Trump peace plan