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Birzeit University (Palestine)

جامعة بيرزيت

Last modified: 2023-11-04 by ian macdonald
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image by Eugene Ipavec, 07 July 2007

• Description
• Martyr Yasser Arafat Bloc
• The Student Union Nationalist Movement
• Martyr Omar Al-Qasim Forces

• Palestine

• Official Website

Birzeit University is a university near the Arab town of Bir an Zeit near Ramallah. See photo of flag.

Eugene Ipavec, 07 September 2007

   images located by William Garrison, 18 October 2023

Version of the 2005-era flag of the Palestinian "Martyr Yasser Arafat Bloc". Here "Bloc" represents a Fatah political-party group of students at "Birzeit University" voting on the leadership of the student council in April 2005. There was a political-power struggle between Fatah versus Hamas students. It is also known as "Martyrs University" for the Fatah students killed there during demonstrations. The top Arabic slogan reads: "Martyrs University" (which appears to be a nickname for "Birzeit University") located north of Ramallah city. The second-to-the-bottom line reads: "Student Youth Movement". The bottom line reads: "Martyr Yasser Arafat Bloc".

Regarding the logo, the book is most likely that of Islam's holy book: The Quran. The forearm of the explosive fist is shaped like a map of "Greater Palestine", including Israel and the West Bank. The forearm's checkered design is symbolic of the checkered keffiyeh worn by Fatah leader Y. Arafat after he shaped it like a map of "Greater Palestine." . There is a flag-pole sleeve at the right side (hoist).

On the second flag, the top line reads: "Student Youth Association -- Birzeit University". The school is located several miles north of Ramallah city. The bottom line reads: "Yasser Arafat Martyrs Bloc".

William Garrison, 18 October 2023

   images located by William Garrison, 18 October 2023

Version of the 2005-era flag of the Palestinian "Martyr Yasser Arafat Bloc", here having a white-field. The bottom line reads: "Yasser Arafat Martyrs Bloc".
Source: https://www.alamy.com/

Version of the 2005-era flag of the Palestinian "Martyr Yasser Arafat Bloc" with the black-letter Arabic slogan (that reads: "Martyr Yasser Arafat Bloc") inside the middle white-stripe of the standard flag of "Palestine".
Source: https://www.alamy.com/

William Garrison, 18 October 2023

The Student Union Nationalist Movement

image located by William Garrison, 19 October 2023

A black-field flag of possibly "The Student Union Nationalist Movement". It shows a white oval map of northern Africa and the Middle East, an area that appears to extend from Mauritania to Iraq including Somalia, but excluding Ethiopia (which has had a known past Christian-oriented history). Because the slogans on the flag are written in Arabic, one might deduce that the organization is Muslim oriented. The organization's name is listed in a slightly curved Arabic slogan above the oval map, and a second straight-line Arabic slogan at the bottom reads: "Building a Revolution"; c. 2005. A flag-pole sleeve is at the right side (hoist). This may have been an organization operating at the Birzeit University located north of Ramallah, Palestine. The university has played a major role in Palestinian political life and has championed Arab unity or "Pan Arabism".

William Garrison, 19 October 2023

This emblem featuring the Arab States is very much the same as the one seen in the Ba'ath Party.
Esteban Rivera, 19 October 2023

Martyr Omar Al-Qasim Forces

image located by William Garrison, 19 October 2023

A c. 2005 red-field Palestinian flag with an Arabic slogans transliterated into English as "Martyr Omar Al-Qasim Forces" on the top line and "Birzeit University" on the bottom line. "Birzeit University" is located several miles north of Ramallah city in "Palestine" ("West Bank"). According to Wikipedia, the"Martyr Omar Al-Qasim Forces" is also known as the "Palestinian National Resistance Brigades", which is the military wing of the Democratic_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_Palestine (DFLP) that operated in the Gaza Strip. It was formed in 1969 but it wasn't established until late September 2000. It was initially called "Red Star Brigades", and then it was renamed as "Palestinian National Resistance Battalions" during the Second_Intifada against Israel (c. 2000 - 2005). Also on this flag is a map of a "Greater Palestine" that includes all of Israel besides just the "West Bank" and which shows a head portrait of 48-year-old mustachioed Omar Mahmoud Al-Qasim (aka: Al-Qassim, even Al-Qassem), who was born in Jerusalem in 1941. He was a leading member of the "Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine" (DFLP). Qasim was a young Palestinian who advocated and led an armed struggle in the West Bank against Israel. He was captured and held in an Israeli prison for 21 years, but following a hunger-strike later expired in an Israeli prison on 4 June 1989 -- thereby making him a "shahid/shaheed" or "martyr" for the Palestine-liberation cause. What his association with Birzeit University is unclear, as he graduated from Damascus University. Although he may not have even attended Birzeit University, some student group may have appropriated his name for their resistance use. The university has played a major role in Palestinian political life and has championed Arab unity or "Pan Arabism".
William Garrison, 19 October 2023

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