Summary
A refugee camp in Gaza whose middle school for refugees was the subject of an Egyptian Administration police file in 1959 that Feldman uses to show the extent of surveillance of education and the prevalence of party politics in schools (Governing Gaza, PDF p.233 / printed p.216).
Details
- On the morning of October 12, 1959, the janitor of the Bureij Middle School for Refugees found a leaflet posted on the school door; students ripped it apart as he began to remove it, he reassembled it, and it passed through the principal to the Deir Belah administrative governor, who sent police officers to investigate (PDF p.233 / printed p.216).
- The leaflet declared “Palestine is our country” and “Long Live Gamal Abdul Nasser”, so the disturbance was about unauthorized expression rather than content (PDF p.233 / printed p.216).
- The investigation identified teachers affiliated with the Communist Party, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Ba’th party, each accusing the others of creating trouble and “chaos”; the principal, a Ba’thist, threatened to “wring the neck” of a Nasserist teacher and announced, “I am a Ba’thist, and I am not afraid of anyone, not even Gamal Abdul Nasser” (PDF p.233 / printed p.216).
Related pages
Governing Gaza, Gaza, Community services, Muslim Brotherhood