£433.20 raised for IUG

by Shibani Mahtani on 19 Jan 2010 in News

In light of the LSESU’s recent twinning with the Islamic University of Gaza (IUG), the LSESU Palestine Society organised a day of fundraising for the university last Friday.

The society managed to raise £433.20 in donations over 6 hours on Houghton Street and around campus, with 3 or 4 people fundraising at the same time.

Ahmed Hashem, the public relations co-ordinator of the IUG and speaking on behalf of the university said: “Amazing news from this fund raising, as a student first and from the public relation office on behalf of the IUG second, I would like to send you all my deep thanks for this effort. You are amazing!”

The Palestine Society also organised a vigil for the victims of Israel’s offensive on Gaza a year ago on Thursday, and a video conference with students from the IUG on Wednesday.

Chair of the LSESU Palestine Society, Mira Hammad said: “We are delighted with this early evidence that twinning with the IUG has already begun to bear fruits. We are extremely proud that as a society and as a student body we have been able to begin an initiative which is already making a concrete difference to the lives of students living under occupation.”

“We hope that the links between the LSE & the IUG move from strength to strength and set our sights on really changing the lives of students in Gaza for the better.”

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  • What a relief

    Is 433.20 the price of LSE’s reputation as a liberal institution? I guess so.

    Maybe instead of pissing off the entire University for the sake of 433.20 the Palestine Society should have convinced a student from the UAE or Saudi Arabia to sell a Ferrari and donate the proceeds

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  • Jon Hoffman

    congratulations guys! (ignore the grumpy racist americans, its just culture shock)

  • Wowzers

    So people opposed to the motion complained that this was a political gesture and not aimed at actually helping Gazan students, when we do raise money to help Palestinian students, we’re still wrong? Cant win with some people I guess.

  • Alex

    The entire university was not “pissed off”. In fact I detected broad support for it, and lets just remember that the decision to twin with the IUG was made DEMOCRATICALLY at the Union General Meeting – where students from all backgrounds attended. Well done and ignore the Israeli-state funded sheeps.

  • What a relief

    Dear Jon,

    I must be experiencing culture shock since I am only from the most ethnically and linguistically diverse city on the planet. Don’t know which city that is? I’ll give you a hint, its not London and its not in a country that is +90 white (like Great Britain is).

    The extreme irony of making such a fuss in London to raise pitiful amounts of money while rich Arabs piss away billions on British weapons should matter to you if you care more about liberal values than your pretensions of racial sensitivity and political correctness. There are people in the world called “Arabs” and its not racist to mention them or their countries by name, sorry friend.

  • What a relief

    Wowzers,

    You’re right, you can’t win politically supporting or raising money for Hamas institutions; that is exactly the point- spend five minutes reading a competent strategic analysis of the standoff between Hamas and Israel to understand why efforts to pay or prop-up Hamas instigates violence.

  • What a relief

    Alex,

    I must be funded by the Israeli state because I disagree with you. Since you’re the talking-point regurgitating hack, you’re the sheep not me.

  • http://automaticballpoint.wordpress.com Graham Jenkins

    “ignore the grumpy racist americans”

    Let’s get this straight right now. I have no problems with Arabs as a whole. I have no problems with Muslims as a whole. I have no problems with Christians as a whole. But I have problems with all those that condone, support, and carry out terrorism. And that’s all this is about. It’s not even about supporting Israel, per se, as it is about NOT supporting a known sponsor and abettor of terrorism.

    “So people opposed to the motion complained that this was a political gesture and not aimed at actually helping Gazan students, when we do raise money to help Palestinian students, we’re still wrong? Cant win with some people I guess.”

    My only question here is over the destination of whatever money’s been raised. Did it go directly to students? To a student union? To the administration? If it’s the latter, then yeah, we’re directly funding terrorism.

    “lets just remember that the decision to twin with the IUG was made DEMOCRATICALLY at the Union General Meeting – where students from all backgrounds attended.”

    And if by democratically you mean a 20-vote margin out of the 286 present, out of the NINE THOUSAND students who attend this institution… who am I to question your definition of democracy? (for the record, such a ‘majority’ is 1.7%)

  • Bell

    Congratulations on the success!

  • well done

    a truly fantastic achievement

    give yourself another pat on the back

    i mean you couldn’t even match howie d’s price at auction, but good job anyway

    students get paid more for a week of their summer internship, but top stuff all the same

  • Congrats

    Great job! Now instead of being funded by terrorists (Gaddafi et al), the LSE can return the favour.