#haverford college

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

If you live in PA, I want to ask you to call your reps and call for a ceasefire. When you do so, mention that one of the Palestinian college students shot in Vermont, Kinnan Abdalhamid, went to Haverford College in Pennsylvania.

Most of our reps have supported the genocide of Palestinians. In doing so, they have helped murder thousands of people. They have also encouraged Islamophobia.

Point out that it has had a direct effect on at least one of the people they vowed to represent. (Yes, I know it has also harmed more, but this is a specific, documented incident we can call out.)

The more people who call them out on this, the more likely they are to make a public statement addressing the attacks.

We need to make them squirm.

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William Forster Mitchell (1825 – 1892)

This summer, I created a small exhibit in the Maria Mitchell Vestal Street Observatory to highlight some of the other Mitchell family members.  We were celebrating the renovation of the Seminar Room addition at the MMO – completed with a gift from MMA board member and Mitchell family descendant, Richard Wolfe.  Mr. Wolfe is a descendant of Maria Mitchell’s younger brother, William Forester.  I have mentioned him before but thought I would share some more details of another remarkable member of the Mitchell Family.

Named by his parents, William and Lydia Mitchell, for the famous English Quaker, Forster as he was called was educated like his siblings – in his father’s schools, at home, and in Quaker-led schools on the island.  Forster married Charlotte Coffin Dow in 1846.  While he left Quaker meeting – as all of his siblings did – he later returned with a reinstatement by the Meeting.  Following in the footsteps of his father, Forster became a teacher serving at several schools, including heading a Penn Charter School in Philadelphia and helping a financially floundering school for people of color in Philadelphia.  Forster served as Haverford College Superintendent from 1861-1862 and then was made principal at the Roberts Vaux Public School in Philadelphia.  An abolitionist and educator, he became a supervisor and teacher in the Freedmen’s Aid Commission, working in the South with formerly enslaved people.  His daughter, Annie Maria joined him in his work there for several years. 

Founded in 1859 during the Civil War, the Commission was created by several religious denominations that hired teachers and provided housing so that they could establish and run schools in the South to help and support those who had been enslaved.  The Commission also assisted formerly enslaved peoples with finding jobs, housing, and basic necessities for life.  The work of the Commission’s teachers helped to raise the literacy rate of the formerly enslaved people by an incredible amount – it founded over 500 schools and colleges in the South where the newly freed could gain professional degrees as well.  Children, men, and women all attended the schools to learn to read or to improve their limited literacy.  Forster Mitchell found himself a part of a Commission that included many Quakers and quite a few Nantucketers, including island teacher Anna Gardner.

As a young man, Forster apprenticed to his uncle, Peleg Mitchell Jr – William Mitchell’s youngest brother – who owned a tinsmithing shop.  His apprenticeship proved very useful, as Forster became a founding faculty member at Howard College (now University) where he taught tinsmithing in the Industrial Arts Department – a craft he learned from his Uncle Peleg.  In ill health later in his life, Forester returned to Nantucket at the invitation of his younger brother, Henry, who had a home on the Cliff called Sunnycliff.  Forster would die on Nantucket, in another house down the street from Henry, in 1892. 

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[elgallinero]

Education

haverford college – Google Search — Read on…

[rosefyrefyre]

My alma mater, Haverford College.

Here is the library:

So the story (which is definitely not true) is that at some point, the state of Pennsylvania required every college to have a church on its campus. Haverford, which is a Quaker college, said "...fine", built a church, and put the books in it.

Like I said, that story isn't true.

But the library is particularly gorgeous and was always one of my favorite buildings on campus.

best college libraries in ur opinion?

I! Don't really know, sorry! I've been to a total of two univeristy libraries. The one at my alma mater was pretty nice I did a lot of homework there but there's not a ton to write home about lol. And the other one I didn't see much of cause we just had a room scheduled to record something in lol

Although I did see this video before about the Lanchester Library at Coventry University and it is hosted by an extremely delightful gentleman

If anyone wants to sound off with good college libraries feel free!

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UPDATE 4:02pm EST: Mondoweiss has verified in their article that the family is asking "that no one make donations to fundraisers unless specifically organized by our families." Thanks to @justaboutsnapped for flagging this!

Three Palestinian college students were shot and wounded in Burlington, Vermont Saturday evening, local Vermont TV station WCAX reported. The victims, unnamed by police, reportedly include Brown undergraduate Hesham Awartani ’25, as well as Kinnan Abdelhamid and Tahseen Ahmed, students at Haverford College and Trinity College, respectively. Police statements did not identify a shooter or indicate that a suspect is in custody; the Council on American-Islamic Relations is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest, The Messenger reported.  The shooting took place at 6:25 p.m. Saturday, and safety personnel brought all three victims to the University of Vermont Medical Center, according to VTDigger. Awartani and Ahmed sustained serious injuries, according to a statement from their high school in the West Bank. The Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee has called upon authorities to investigate the incident as a hate crime. The organization wrote in a statement that “the three victims were wearing a kuffiyeh and speaking Arabic. A man shouted and harassed the victims, then proceeded to shoot them."  Brown is aware of the incident but could not confirm the identity of the victims, University Spokesperson Amanda McGregor wrote in an email to The Herald. “We received the difficult news from the family this morning that a Brown undergraduate currently enrolled in his junior year at the University is in the hospital after being shot while out of state for the Thanksgiving break,” McGregor wrote. “We’re not at liberty to release details about his health status or his identity, but we are actively offering care to the family and support to our student, as well as members of our campus community.” All three students attended Ramallah Friends School in the West Bank before attending college in the U.S., according to a Facebook post from the school. “Ramallah Friends School board, administration, staff and community are deeply distressed by the recent incident involving three of our graduates, Hisham Awartani, Kinnan Abdel Hamid and Tahseen Ahmed who were shot and injured last evening in Burlington, VT,” the school wrote in the post. “While we are relieved to know that they are alive, we remain uncertain about their condition and hold them in the light. We extend our thoughts and prayers to them and their families for a full recovery, especially considering the severity of injuries,” the statement continued. “We stand united in hope and support for their well-being during this challenging time.” [...] Basil Awartani, who identified himself as Hisham Awartani’s cousin, shared in a post on X that “My cousin Hisham has been shot in the back while walking with his friends in Burlington for simply wearing kuffiyehs and speaking Arabic. Dangerous performative rhetoric from US pundits and politicians as well as constant dehumanization of Palestinians has a real-life cost.”

-- "Brown junior among three Palestinian students shot in Vermont Saturday night" from Brown Daily Herald, 26 Nov 2023 12:36pm EST

Kinnan Abdelhamid is a student at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and Tahseen Ahmed is a student at Trinity College in Connecticut. Their current condition is unknown.

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[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

Today, I'm getting replies to months' worth of emails from John Fetterman's office. It's interesting becausd they include a section that lets me see what he wrote.

I had asked him to tell me where I could find a statement of his speaking out against the shooting of Kinnan Abdahlhamid, a Palestinian American Pennsylvania college student who was shot in an Islamophobic attack.

I did not even reference Hamas or Gaza.

He sent back the same response as to my inquiries as to why Israel is bombing Lebanon and Syria and my demands for a ceasefire:

The message is clear: He sees all Palestinians as Hamas. The mere mention of a Palestinian American, his constituent or not, makes him write any message off as directly about Hamas.

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→ And how are the Jews? Haverford College students held an on-campus event about how Jews are behind Covid in Palestine: “COVID in Times of Genocide: How Israel uses COVID as a Tool for Settler Colonialism in Palestine.” The University of Michigan had to end an honors convocation ceremony amid protests for the university being, I don’t know, Zionist? The president of the main pro-Palestine group on campus wrote: “Until my last breath, I will utter death to every single individual who supports the Zionist state. Death and more. Death and worse.”

And in a Berkeley City Council meeting about Holocaust Remembrance Day, protesters interrupted to chant “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and to call the council members “money suckers” and “Zio pigs.” One woman screamed at the council: “You are traitors to this country. You are spies for Israel.” Wow! That’s some spirited Anti-Zionism and Definitely Not Antisemitism right there! 

In a surprise to no one reading this site, support for Israel’s war against Hamas is falling: 

New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman called the idea of Hamas raping Israelis “a lie.” And then in a great new blood libel from NPR, the taxpayer-funded media nonprofit celebrated the Jewish holiday of Purim, a story of a Jewish queen saving the people and getting the king to agree to let them defend themselves against would-be genociders. How did NPR celebrate? By connecting it to the modern war against Hamas—and guess what, NPR says it’s bad that the Jews survived in the Purim story and that Jews are fighting Hamas now. 

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“Post Post is an indie rock band comprised of four college juniors who met and formed at Bryn Mawr College, an all-women's liberal arts college outside Philadelphia (they wouldn't let Kevin in, he had to go to Haverford instead). The group uses synth and a tight rhythm section to compliment singer/guitarist Michelle Zauner (formerly of Little Girl, Big Spoon), creating a sound that falls somewhere within the realm of earnest, melodic indie pop meets post-riot grrrl era rock meets synth-ridden new wave. The songs are intense, building momentum but rarely boiling over. Barely one year old, they've already earned opening spots for bands like Vivian Girls, Neon Indian, Rachael Cantu, Real Estate, Toro y Moi, Free Energy, the Big Pink, and Beach House.”

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[tieflingkisser]

Kinnan Abdalhamid, Palestinian Student Shot in Vermont, Calls for US, Schools to Demand Israel Ceasefire

In this op-ed, Haverford College student Kinnan Abdalhamid, who was a victim of a hate crime last fall, places a call to action for the US government and his academic institution to support a ceasefire in Palestine.

Israel’s military occupation of our land has been consistently enabled by military, financial, and political support from the US government. Anti-Palestinian rhetoric allows this support to go unchallenged year after year. The only way successive US administrations can accept Israel's mass imprisoning, abuse, and torture of Palestinian men, women, and children; Israelis displacing Palestinian families at gunpoint to take over our land and homes; and mass bombardment of a trapped civilian population in Gaza is if they do not regard us as fully human. I don’t know what anti-Palestinian propaganda our shooter may have consumed, whether it was vicious attacks from the right-wing media, smears from politicians, or even unsubstantiated incendiary claims repeatedly made by President Biden himself. The Palestinian people are diverse in terms of religion, political leanings, and beliefs — as with all people — but it’s no accident that in the minds of so many Americans, we aren’t seen as full human beings, with families we love and dreams for a better future. We are spoken at, for, and about, denied the ability to tell our own stories. Even our calls for freedom are twisted and misrepresented. It’s frustrating when our peers display this kind of ignorance; it’s dangerous when it’s spewed by people in positions of power, when the demonization is intentional and systematic. Palestinians are people who deserve life and freedom, just like everyone else. We shouldn't have to say this. Tahseen, Hisham, and I are deeply grateful for the outpouring of support we’ve felt from hundreds of thousands of people nationwide. But we can’t help but wonder: How much of that support is because we walk and talk like Americans? Pernicious dehumanization and repression have been a part of Palestinian Americans’ experience since long before the gunman pulled the trigger on us in Vermont, and it has only escalated since. To me, nowhere is this repression more pervasive than on college campuses. Many university administrators across the country have given belated or inadequate lip service to the safety of Arab and Muslim students during a terrifying surge of anti-Palestinian sentiment. Not only have universities done a poor job of supporting Palestinian students, but these institutions have also tried to silence and ostracize our voices and those of our allies who are calling for the end of the onslaught in Gaza – including Jewish allies.

[grubbygrrrl]

Haverford College political science professor Barak Mendelsohn on twitter, just days after a horrific hate crime on Haverford student Kinnan Abdalhamid, where he and two friends, Hisham Awartini and Tahseen Ali Ahmed, were shot for the act of being Palestinian. Mendelsohn then insulted and ridiculed a student asking for an open dialogue. Shame.