In light of the most recent Israeli attacks on Gaza, Ali Abunimah speaks at a University of Chicago panel held on January 8, 2008, which included Norman G. Finkelstein and John J. Mearsheimer.
In light of the most recent Israeli attacks on Gaza, Ali Abunimah speaks at a University of Chicago panel held on January 8, 2008, which included Norman G. Finkelstein and John J. Mearsheimer.
PANEL DISCUSSION
“Université Libre de Bruxelles”
Paul Emile JANSON Auditorium
Thursday 26 march at 20.00 p.m.
Speakers:
Maha abu Dayyeh, Director Women’s Center for Legal Aid
and Counseling (WCLAC)
Bassam Ezbidi, political Sciences Professor at Birzeit
University
Naomi Chazan, Former Deputy Speaker of the Knesset (Merets),
Chair New Israel Fund (NIF), Head School of Government and Society, Academic
College of Tel Aviv Yaffo
Yossi Alpher, Coeditor of the Bitterlemons.org family of
internet publications and former Director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic
Studies at Tel Aviv University
Hussein Agha, senior Associate, member of St Anthony’s
College, Oxford
Scott Lasensky, Senior Research Associate, US Institute of
Peace,Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Author of Negociating
Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Meaddle East
Yves Aubin de la Messusière, former Director at the Quai
d’Orsay for the Middle-East, Vice-President of the “Institut du Monde Arabe”
Chair: Simone Susskind, Actions in the Mediterranean
Partners:
Cercle du Libre Examen
Institut Marcel Liebmann
Dor Hashalom
Israel-Palestine: Europe: Réveille-toi
With the Support of the Heinrich Böll Fondation and the Pôle Berheim – Paix
et Citoyenneté
The evening will be in English with simultaneous translation
Israeli director Ari Folman’s Waltz With Bashir took Best Foreign Film at this year’s Golden Globes, reigniting a debate about Israeli public support of war. As the Gaza war rages on with a 90 percent public approval rating despite horrific scenes of civilian death, MENASSAT’s Tania Tabar asks why an ‘anti-war’ film like Waltz With Bashir is still not addressing the root causes of war in Israel.
By TANIA TABAR
LVSV Leuven, the Catholic University of Leuven & UNESCO Maria-Theresiacollege (MTC), Grote Aula, Sint-Michielsstraat 6, Leuven 3000
Date:
Tuesday the 24th of February 2009
Time:
8pm
The guest speaker will be Professor Norman G. Finkelstein, who will address the
audience on the theme:
“The Israel-Palestine Conflict: What we can
learn from Gandhi”
Norman Finkelstein received his doctorate in 1988 from the Department of Politics at Princeton
University. For many years he has taught political theory and the Israel-Palestine conflict. He is
currently an independent scholar.
He is the author of five books which have been translated into more than 40 foreign editions:
Beyond Chutzpah: On the misuse of anti-Semitism and the abuse of history;
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering;
Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict;
Nation on Trial: The Goldhagen thesis and historical truth;
The Rise and Fall of Palestine: A personal
account of the intifada years.
He has just completed a new book entitled A Farewell to Israel: The
coming break-up of American Zionism, to be published in 2009.
“A person who can speak with more authority and insight on these topics [Israel and anti-Semitism]
than anyone I can think of.” –Noam Chomsky, father of modern linguistics
“It takes an enormous amount of academic courage to speak the truth when no one else is out there
to support him … His place in the whole history of writing history is assured, and that those who in
the end are proven right triumph, and he will be among those who will have triumphed, albeit, it so
seems, at great cost.” –Raul Hilberg, world’s leading authority on the Nazi Holocaust
This event is free and open to the public.
Location:
Maria-Theresiacollege (MTC), Grote Aula
Address:
Sint-Michielsstraat 6
3000 Leuven
Belgium
Contact person:
Denis Van den Weghe
denis@lvsvleuven.be
+32476293688
INTERVIEW : Grégoire Lalieu and Michel Collon
by Mohamed Hassan
For a lot of medias, the case seems clear: the Hamas is terrorist, fundamentalist and fanatic. Though, this movement has won the last elections and his popularity increases among the Palestinians. Why? We raised the question to Mohamed Hassan, co-author of Iraq, Eye-to-eye with the occupation, and one of the best Middle-East specialists.
What is really the Hamas?
Hamas is a political movement coming from the Muslim Brotherhood, which is one of the oldest political movements in Egypt. The word “hamas” means awakening, erupting… It’s an islamo nationalist movement, which we could compare to the Irish catholic nationalist movement. In 1916, the Irish Republican Army has developed against the colonial British occupation. As the Irish were Catholics and the British settlers were Protestants, the occupier tried to make it a religious conflict. Religion can be utilized to mobilize people for a cause.
Posted by OPGAI on Tue, 12/23/2008 – 08:40
23 December 2008 – In this holiday season, the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee, BNC*, calls upon people of conscience all over the world to boycott all the products of the French cosmetics giant, L’Oreal**, due to its deep and extensive involvement in business relations with Israel, despite the latter’s continued occupation and apartheid policies against the indigenous Palestinian people.
L’Oreal’s operations in Israel began in the mid-1990s, motivated in part by political considerations. Since then, L’Oreal Israel, the company’s subsidiary in Israel, has operated a factory in the Israeli town of Migdal Ha’emek in the Lower Galilee. The settlement of Migdal Ha’emek was established in 1952 on lands belonging to the ethnically-cleansed Palestinian village of al-Mujaydil, whose original inhabitants are still denied the right to return to their homes.
Like almost all other Jewish settlements built in the midst of Palestinian villages in the Galilee, inside Israel, Migdal Ha’emek discriminates against Palestinian citizens of Israel, denying them the right to buy, rent or live on any part of the town, simply because they are “non Jews.”
A group of people took produce labeled as WEST BANK as country of origin from a TESCO store in Swanseas City Centre. The two filled their trollies with dates, fresh herbs, fruit and salads. The trollies, full of produce were up-turned at the supermarket entrance and covered in fake blood to represent the lives lost in Gaza. Reported by undercurrents for http://www.visionon.tv
Relayed from Auntie Ziona’s Ketchup as a Weapon of Mass Distraction
Dimanche, 08 Février 2009 20:10 Écrit par Free Gaza Movement
Scottish activist Theresa McDermott has been found in Ramleh prison four days after she was “disappeared” by the Israel government after being forcibly removed from a seaborne Lebanese aid mission to Gaza. In early February Theresa responded to a call for support from internationals from the organizers of a Lebanese humanitarian aid voyage to Gaza aboard the Togo flagged ship, Tali. Theresa was one of only 9 passengers aboard the cargo ship on February 4, 2009 when Israeli gunboats intercepted it, boarded and forced the ship to Ashdod port in Israel
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