Sabri Jiryis

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Sabri Jiryis (

Hebrew University law faculty, and Palestinian activist. In 1966, the first edition of his book The Arabs in Israel was published in Hebrew
.

Biography

Jiryis was born in 1938, in the

Palestinian Christian town of Fassuta, Mandatory Palestine.[1]

Arrest in Israel

He was given an "Administrative House Arrest" on 25 April 1969.[citation needed] The order was given by the Chief of the Northern Command, David Elazar and based on Emergency Regulations. According to this order Jiryis was to:

  • not live outside the city limits of Haifa,
  • not change home within Haifa without police permission,
  • not leave the city of Haifa without police permission,
  • report to the police every day at 15.45,
  • stay in his home from one hour before sunset until dawn.

20 February 1970 he was jailed on another Administrative regulation. In March 1970, Jiryis was one of the initiators of a hunger strike by Palestinian administrative detainees, which attracted wide support, including demonstrations in Israel and across the world.[2] He was allowed to leave Israel later in 1970, and moved to Beirut, Lebanon, where he became director of the Palestine Research Centre.[citation needed]

PLO activism

About 1975,

Secretary of State, working in coordination with Yitzhak Rabin, then the Israeli Prime Minister, sent the FBI to the Capitol Hilton Hotel to deport Jiryis and Sartawi.[citation needed
]

About the same time, Israeli doves General Mattityahu Peled, Uri Avnery and Arie Eliav had been meeting for months in Paris, France, with Jiryis and Sartawi.[3]

In 1977, Jiryis, as a member of the Palestinian National Council, wrote:

The Palestinians may, in certain circumstances, be ready to seek a settlement in the area to which Israel is a party. But they are not prepared to conclude an agreement recognizing the legitimacy of Zionism; no Palestinian Arab can ever accept as legitimate, a doctrine that he should be excluded from most parts of his homeland, because he is a Muslim Arab or a Christian Arab, while anyone of the Jewish faith from anywhere in the world is entitled to settle there. Realism may require recognition of the existence of a Jewish state in Palestine and that this fact be taken into account in seeking a settlement. But this can never mean approving the expansionist and exclusivist tendencies of Zionism. The Journal of Palestine Studies, 1977.[citation needed]

During the

Palestine Research Centre's historical archives were seized by occupying Israeli forces, but were returned as part of the November 1983 prisoner exchange with the PLO.[4] In February 1983, a saboteur's bomb destroyed the centre; among those killed was Jiryis's wife.[5]

Jiryis moved on to Nicosia, Cyprus, in July 1983. In 1995, after the Oslo Accords, he returned to Israel.[citation needed]

2005 arrest of his brother

On 7 January 2006, it became known that his brother, Jiryis Jiryis, age 57, a resident of the Christian village of

Iranian intelligence during a stay in Cyprus. Sabri Jiryis, acting as his brothers attorney, claimed that the suspicions were baseless. Jiryis said the security services had been tracking his brother for nine months, and that during his interrogation, he was presented with a recording of a phone call during which his brother was heard rejecting the Iranian agents' offer of assistance. "'My brother is a very secular man, affiliated with the PLO's centrist stream, who believes in peace talks and a two-state solution for two nations,' he told Haaretz, and added: "What they are trying to ascribe to him contradicts his political outlook."[citation needed] "During the detention, the police dropped the spy charges initially ascribed to him" Sabri Jiryis added further, and he believed the additional suspicions against his brother would be refuted "because the police have no evidence on the matter."[citation needed
]

Bibliography
Note: for the Swedish, German, French and Italian translations of this book his name his given as Sabri Geries.
  • Sabri Jiryis: Democratic Freedoms in Israel. Beirut, 1972. (Institute for Palestine Studies, Monograph Series No. 30)

Bibliography, articles (partial)

  • Jiryis, Sabri: Recent Knesset Legislation and the Arabs in Israel, in Journal of Palestine Studies, 1, no. 1 (Aut. 1971): 53-67.
  • Jiryis, Sabri: The Legal Structure for the Expropriation and Absorption of Arab Lands in Israel, in Journal of Palestine Studies, 2, no. 4 (Sum. 1973): 82-104.
  • Jiryis, Sabri: No Peace in Israel, interview in Journal of Palestine Studies, 4, no. 4 (Sum. 1975): 26-40.
  • Jiryis, Sabri: On Political Settlement in the Middle East: The Palestinian Dimension in Journal of Palestine Studies, 7, no. 1 (Aut. 1977): 3-25.
  • Jiryis, Sabri: Israeli Rejectionism in Journal of Palestine Studies, 8, no. 1 (Aut. 1978): 61-84.
  • Jiryis, Sabri: The Arab World at the Crossroads: The Opposition to
    Sadat
    , in Journal of Palestine Studies, 7, no. 2 (Win. 1978): 26-61.
  • Jiryis, Sabri: The Arabs in Israel, 1973-79, in Journal of Palestine Studies, 8, no. 4 (Sum. 1979): 31-56.
  • Jiryis, Sabri: Secrets of State: An Analysis of the Diaries of Moshe Sharett, in Journal of Palestine Studies, 10, no. 1 (Aut. 1980): 35-57.
  • Jiryis, Sabri: Domination by the Law, in Journal of Palestine Studies, 11, no. 1 (Aut. 1981): 67-92.
  • Jiryis, Sabri: Forty Years since the Seizure of Palestine, in Journal of Palestine Studies, 18, no. 1 (Aut. 1988): 83-95.

See also

References

  1. ^ Fida Jiryis (7 October 2015). "Palestine in motion". Al Jazeera Interactives. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
  2. ISBN 0-903804-08-5
    .
  3. ^ American Jews and the Middle East dilemma: A struggle waged behind the scenes By Carolyn Toll
  4. ^ Blaming the Victims, p. 229
  5. ^ Prisoners of Israel, by: Edward Dillon
  6. ^ "Haaretz - Israel News". www.haaretz.com. Archived from the original on 2006-01-11.

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