In a special meeting to discuss this issue the Staffordshire students’ union council passed a motion calling for the removal of the travel restrictions on Khaled Mudallal and all Palestinians. The motion was put forward by member of council Assed Baig and passed with no votes against.
The motion called for the following:
1) To pressurize the UK Government to do all in its power to secure the right to travel for Khaled Mudallal and all other Palestinians.
2) To lobby the University and the NUS to pressurize the UK Government to do all in its power to secure the right to travel for Khaled Mudallal and all other Palestinians.
3) To work with the main lecturer’s Union, the Universities and Colleges Union (UCU), to pressure Universities in Israel and the UK to campaign for the removal of travel restrictions on Palestinians.
4) To work with students and lecturers in Israel to demand that Israeli educational institutions end their complicity in the denial of Palestinian human rights and campaign for the removal of travel restrictions on all Palestinians.
5) To send a letter of condemnation to the Israeli Embassy in the UK, calling for a removal of the travel restrictions on Khaled Mudallal and all Palestinians.
6) To work in conjunction with Palestinian solidarity groups to ensure that Palestinian human rights are protected.
7) To organize and run a campaign to raise awareness and educate the Students’ Union membership and University lecturers and staff about the occupation and oppression of Palestine, particularly highlighting the denial of the right to education and the travel restrictions.
Khaled Mudallal urgently trying to get back to Bradford University to start his third year of study, has found him self unable to do so after Israel identified Gaza as “hostile territory” this week, effectively closing it off to the outside world and in the process creating the world’s largest open air prison. Khaled Mudallal, 22, a British-educated business and management student who risks losing his third year if he does not return to Bradford next week, has become its latest inmate.
