Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) will be taking place for the third consecutive year from February 12-17 2007, continuing a tradition that began in Toronto, Canada two years ago. It will be a week-long series of events held concurrently across various North American and European campuses and will include lectures, cultural events, film screenings and demonstrations. The cities involved this year include New York, London, Oxford, Cambridge, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and Hamilton.
The aim of Israeli Apartheid Week is to push forward the analysis of Israel as an apartheid state and to bolster support for the boycott, divestment, and sanctions campaign in accordance with the demands outlined in the July 2005 Statement signed by 171 Palestinian organizations: full equality for Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel, an end to the occupation and colonization of the West Bank and Gaza, and the implementation of the right of return and compensation for Palestinian refugees pursuant to UN resolution 194.
The past few years have seen a growth of literature and analysis that has placed Israel alongside other settler-colonial states like South Africa, arguing that Israel is in fact an apartheid state, not just a belligerent occupying power. Prominent Palestinians, Israeli anti-Zionists, and South Africans have been at the forefront of these efforts. The analysis of apartheid put forward during IAW in previous years has played an important role in raising awareness and disseminating information about Zionism, the Palestinian liberation struggle, and its similarities with the indigenous sovereignty struggle in North America and the South African anti-Apartheid movement. At the same time, important gains have recently been made in the boycott, divestment, and sanctions campaign in countries like South Africa, the UK, Canada, and the US.
The organizers of apartheid week join this growing international chorus of opposition to Israeli apartheid and demand that their governments and institutions in the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada refuse any ties with the state of Israel until it complies with international law and respects Palestinian rights. As Israel and its global backers in Canada, the US and Europe tighten the economic stranglehold on the Palestinian people and while the Israeli military continues its daily assault on Palestinian life, the responsibility of the international community to isolate the Israeli apartheid regime is becoming ever more crucial.
For more information see www.endisraeliapartheid.net.
Below are the schedules for the various Israeli Apartheid Weeks taking place in New York, London, Oxford, Cambridge, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and Hamilton (in that order):
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NEW YORK:
Saturday
Feb. 10
6:30 p.m.
Grassroots Nonviolent Resistance to Israeli Apartheid in Palestine
Feryal Abu Haikal & Mohammed Khatib
Hunter College, 695 Park Ave between 67th/68th, Hunter West Building, 4th floor room HW415
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MONDAY: OPENING PANEL
FEB. 12
7:30 p.m.
ISRAEL AND THE APARTHEID ANALOGY
BASHIR ABU-MANNEH
SAREE MAKDISI
ROBERT ROBIDEAU
YIFAT SUSSKIND
Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South
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Tuesday
Feb. 13
7:00 p.m
Digital Resistance: Palestinian Youth Media
Screening and workshop
Furman Hall Room 214, 245 Sullivan Street
AND
7:00 p.m.
Contesting Israeli Apartheid: Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions in Context
Sami Hermez
Riham Barghouti
Issa Mikel
WESPAC Foundation, 255 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
(White Plains)
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Wednesday
Feb. 14
7:30 p.m.
Love Under Apartheid: Palestinians and Israelâs Discriminatory Marriage Laws
Jamil Dakwar
and film “Just Married,” directed by Ayelet Bechar.
Brecht Forum, 451 West Street (between Bank and Bethune)
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Thursday
Feb. 15
7:00 p.m.
Contesting Israeli Apartheid: Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions in Context
Sami Hermez
Riham Barghouti
Issa Mikel
Judson Memorial Church, 239 Thompson St.
AND
7:00 p.m.
Apartheid Through the Lens:A Fundraising Evening for the Young Photographers of Balata Refugee Camp, Palestine
$10 suggested donation at the door
Alwan: 16 Beaver St.
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FRIDAY: CLOSING PANEL
FEB. 16
7:30 p.m.
CHALLENGING ISRAELI APARTHEID
JOSEPH MASSAD
TANYA REINHART
St. Maryâs Episcopal Church, 521 W. 126th St. (between Amsterdam and Broadway)
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Sunday
Feb. 18
2:00 p.m.
Exposing Israeli ApartheidâSupporting Palestinian Liberation: A Teach-In
Pope Hall, St. Peter’s College, 2641 Kennedy Blvd., Jersey City, NJ
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LONDON:
London (SOAS) – ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK 2007
SOAS Palestine Society
Presents:
Israeli Apartheid Week
February 12 – February 15, 2007
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Day One
Monday February 12, 2007
Khalili Lecture Theatre,
6:00 pm
Historical Roots of Apartheid
Chair: Dr. Laleh Khalili
Lecturer in the Politics of the Middle East, Department of Politics
and International Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies,
Univ. of London, UK
European Racism and it’s Magic Mirror: Israeli Apartheid
Speaker: Yitzhak Laor
Novelist, regular contributor to the New Left Review and editor of
Mita’am, A Review of Literature and Radical Thought
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Day Two
Tuesday February 13, 2007
Khalili Lecture Theatre
6:00 pm
Normalizing Apartheid
6:00-7pm
Israel, the Mask of Democracy
Speaker: Jonathan Cook
A former staff journalist of the Guardian and Observer newspapers. He
has also written to The Times, Le Monde diplomatique, International
Herald Tribune, Al-Ahram Weekly. Author of Blood and Religion: The
Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State
Followed by
7:00-8:30 pm
Construction of Double Standard Humanity through Cultural
Representation; Zionism, Israeli Media and Rationalising Racist
Consciousness.
Speaker: Eyal Sivan
Filmmaker and writer, films include Route 181 co-directed with Michel
Khleifi and Izkor: Slaves of Memory. Lecturer at Sapir Academic
College.
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Day Three:
Wednesday February 14, 2007
Venue: G2
07:00 pm
Apartheid within 1948 Palestine
Chair: Dr. Laleh Khalili
Lecturer in the Politics of the Middle East, Department of Politics
and International Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies,
Univ. of London, UK
Worlds Apart: Apartheid and the Palestinian Citizens
Speaker: Nadim Rouhana
Founding Director, Mada al-Carmel: Arab Centre for Applied Social
Research. Professor of Conflict Studies, George Mason University.
De-Arabization of Land and De-Arabization of Jews.
Speaker: Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin
Professor of History, Ben Gurion University
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Day Four:
Thursday February 15, 2007
Venue: G2
07:00 pm
Is One State an End to Apartheid?
Chair: Manal Hazzan
LLM student at UCL, Human Rights Lawyer and former lecturer at Hebrew
University.
Talk: Apartheid Practices in WB and Gaza; Questions for the Future
Speaker: Toufic Haddad
Activist, former co-founder, editor of Between the Lines, and
co-author of forthcoming book Between the Lines: Israel, the
Palestinians and the U.S War on Terror.
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SOAS Palestine Society
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square, London
WC1H 0XG
Email: palsoc@soas.ac.uk
www.palestinesociety.org
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OXFORD:
Oxford University Arab Cultural Society Presents
Israeli Apartheid Week
5th Week of Hilary Term. Monday the 12th to Friday the 16th of February
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Monday, February 12
Palestinian Citizens of Israel: Racism and Marginalisation
Chair: Professor Avi Shlaim (Oxford University)
Speaker: Dr Jamal Zahalka (Member of Israeli Knesset)
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: The Oxford Union, St Michaelâs Street
Room: Goodman Library
Jamal Zahalka (MK) is a member of the National Democratic Assembly (Balad), the foremost secular Palestinian party in Israel. In 2003, he was elected to the Israeli Knesset. Dr. Zahalka is renowned for his civil rights work, demanding equal rights for Palestinian citizens and the transformation of Israel from a Jewish ethnocratic state to a democratic state of all its citizens. Despite facing numerous harassment campaigns by extremist Zionists over the past two decades, he continues to be a vocal member of the peace movement. Dr Zahalka holds a PhD in Pharmacology from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Avi Shlaim (FBA) is Professorial Fellow and Professor of International Relations at St Antonyâs College, Oxford. He is a renowned author on the international politics of the Middle East and a winner of the WJM Mackenzie Book Prize and the David Watt Memorial Prize. His publications include War and Peace in the Middle East: A Concise History and The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World
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Tuesday, February 13
European Racism and its Magic Mirror: Israeli Apartheid
Chair: Professor Kamal Abu-Deeb
Speaker: Yitzhaq Laor
Time: 7:30
Location: Wadham College
Room: Okinaga Room
Yitzhak Laor is a distinguished Israeli poet, playwright and journalist. His political writings regularly appear in Haaretz and the London Review of Books. Laor has refused army service in the occupied areas. In the 1980s he wrote poetry condemning the war in Lebanon. In 1985, Israel censorship prevented the staging of his play âEphraim Returns to the Arms,â and in 1990, the then prime minister Yitzhak Shamir refused to sign the Prime Minister’s Prize for Poetry which had been awarded to Laor. Laor brought a petition to the Israeli Supreme Court against the Film and Play Censorship Board, which led to the cancellation of censorship of plays (but not of films). He is a signatory to the appeal for peace in Palestine which was issued by the International Parliament of Writers.
Kamal Abu-Deeb holds the chair of Arabic Studies at SOAS. A leading scholar in Arabic literary criticism and culture, he has written extensively on Arabic poetry and poetics and the critical discourse in the Arabic tradition. He is also a renowned poet and a leading translator. His Arabic translation of Edward Saidâs Orientalism is considered to be a masterpiece of modern Arab writing. Professor Abu-Deeb has founded and taught Arabic programmes in many universities, including Oxford, Columbia, Pennsylvania , Yarmouk, Damascus and Sanâa.
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Wednesday, February 14
Film Night: Route 181 Fragments of a Journey in Israel-Palestine
Introduction: Matteo Legrenzi
Film: Route 101
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Balliol College
Room: Lecture Room 23
Matteo Legrenzi is a Lecturer at Cranfield University. His book âThe GCC and the International Relations of the Gulf: Diplomacy, Security and Economy Co-ordination in a Changing Middle Eastâ will be published by I.B. Tauris
Route 181 (North) is a cinematic journey through Palestine-Israel. Directors Michel Khleifi and Eyal Sivan trace a route based on the theoretical line presented in UN Resolution 181. A widely acclaimed collaboration between a Jewish and a Palestinian director that illuminates the realities on the ground
Duration: 85 minutes
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Thursday, February 15
Apartheid in Israel and South Africa
Chair: Dr David Johnson
Speaker: Salim Vally
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Somerville College
Room: Flora Anderson Hall
Salim Vally is a lecturer and senior researcher in the School of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and chairperson of the Palestine Solidarity Committee and the Anti-War Coalition. He has previously been an acting director of the Witwatersrand Education Policy Unit and a chairman of the Freedom of Expression Institute. He was a regional executive member of the high school South African Student’s Movement (SASM) which played a pivotal role in the Uprising of 1976.
David Johnson is a lecturer in Comparative and International Education at the University of Oxford and a faculty fellow at St Antonyâs College. He has conducted educational research and impact studies in numerous countries including South Africa.
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Friday, February 16
For Freedom and for Justice: The Role of International Solidarity
Speakers: Professor Jacqueline Rose, Dr Karma Nabulsi
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: The Oxford Union, St Michaelâs Street
Room: Goodman Library
Jacqueline Rose (FBA) is a Professor at Queen Mary College, University of London. Her research focuses on modern subjectivity at the interface of literature, psychoanalysis and politics, as well as on the history and culture of South Africa and of Israel-Palestine. Her most recent publications are The Question of Zion, On Not Being Able to Sleep â psychoanalysis in the modern world and the novel Albertine
Karma Nabulsi is a Fellow in Politics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and University Lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University. She was a PLO representative from 1977-90, working at the United Nations, in Beirut, Tunis, and the United Kingdom. She was an advisory member of the Palestinian delegation to the peace talks in Washington from 1991-1993. She was the specialist advisor to the UK all-party parliamentary commission of inquiry on Palestinian refugees (and its report, Right of Return, 2000) and the specialist adviser to the House of Commons select committee’s inquiry on development assistance and the occupied Palestinian territories. She is the author of Traditions of War: Occupation, Resistance and the Law and writes on the philosophy and ethics of war, European political history and theory and Palestinian history and politics.
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CAMBRIDGE:
Cambridge University Palestine Society Present:
Monday 12 February â 7.00 â 8.30 pm, Keynes Hall, Kingâs College.
The Right of Return is the Road Map to Peace
By Dr Karma Nabulsi, Fellow in Politics at St Edmund Hall and University Lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University. Dr Nabulsi was a PLO representative from 1977-90, working at the United Nations, in Beirut, Tunis, and the United Kingdom. She was an advisory member of the Palestinian delegation to the peace talks in Washington from 1991-1993. She was the specialist advisor to the UK all-party parliamentary commission of inquiry on Palestinian refugees (and its report, Right of Return, 2000) and the specialist adviser to the House of Commons select committee’s inquiry on development assistance and the occupied Palestinian territories. She is the author of Traditions of War: Occupation, Resistance and the Law and writes on the philosophy and ethics of war, European political history and theory and Palestinian history and politics.
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Tuesday 13 February â 7.00 â 8.30 pm, Chetwynd Room, Kingâs College.
Who Controls the Transboundary Flows? The Consequences of Israeli Hydro-Hegemony.
By Dr Mark Zeitoun, water engineer and researcher who has worked extensively in conflict and post-conflict zones throughout Africa and the Middle East. Based at the LSE Centre for Environment, he is currently leading a group of researchers exploring the role of power and transboundary waters – ‘hydro-hegemony’
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Wednesday 14 February â 6.00 â 7.00 pm, Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.
Joint Resistance: Israelis and Palestinians unite in struggle against the Wall.
Video footage and photography exhibit by Anarchists Against the Wall, an Israeli organisation that has joined Palestinan non-violent struggle against the Separation Wall in the West Bank and against Israeli occupation more generally.
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Thursday 15 February â 7.00 â 8.30 pm, Keynes Hall, Kingâs College.
International Solidarity: What can be done?
By Greg, a student of Cambridge University. Greg spent a month in the West Bank helping document and protect the lives of Palestinians in their daily struggle for access to education and land, which are frequently denied to them by Israeli soldiers and settlers. International observers can play a major part in helping to secure this access but it can be a frustrating experience and filled with huge quantities of tear gas. The talk will detail events in Hebron and Bilin over December 2006 and provide information about going to Palestine and helping the Palestinian non-violent resistance.
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Friday 16 February â 7.00 â 9.00 pm, Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.
Apartheid in Israel and South Africa
By Salim Vally, lecturer and senior researcher in the School of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and chairperson of the Palestine Solidarity Committee and the Anti-War Coalition. Mr. Vally has previously been an acting director of the Witwatersrand Education Policy Unit and a chairman of the Freedom of Expression Institute. He was a regional executive member of the high school South African Student’s Movement (SASM) which played a pivotal role in the Uprising of 1976.
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TORONTO:
Israeli Apartheid Week 2007 – Toronto
Brought to you by the Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA)
Monday Feb 12th 2007, 7pm
Lecture: “Apartheid: Turtle Island, South Africa, Palestine”
Speakers: Prof. Bonita Lawrence, Shaheen Ariefdien, Hazem Jamjoum
Moderator: Judy Rebick
Location: Ryerson (Main Building) LIB 72
Directions: 350 Victoria Street. Exit at Dundas Subway Station. Walk East on Dundas, and then North on Victoria Street)
Time: 7pm
Professor Bonita Lawrence (Mi’kmaw) currently teaches Native studies and sociology at York University. Her research focuses on mixed-race, urban and non-status Native identity. Professor Lawrence is the author of “Real Indians and Others: Mixed Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood.” She has co-edited (with Kim Anderson) “Strong Women Stories: Native Vision and Community Survival” and “Indigenous Women: The State of Our Nations” – a special issue of the journal Atlantis.
Shaheen Ariefdien was born in Cape Town, South Africa. He is a teacher who has always been politically and socially conscious – which stems from his school days as an anti-apartheid activist. Shaheen is also a rapper and producer and he made his mark in South Africaâs hip hop industry, as one of the key members of the pioneering South African hip-hop group, Prophets of da City. Shaheen is currently doing his Masters degree in the Anthropology Department at York University.
Hazem Jamjoum is a third generation Palestinian refugee, and one of the founding members of the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid and Sumoud Political Prisoners Solidarity Group. He helped organize Israeli Apartheid Week in 2005 and 2006 as a member of the Arab Studentsâ Collective at the University of Toronto. He is the host of Kan Ya Makan (CKLN 88.1fm â Tuesday 8-10pm) Torontoâs only Arab community radio show, and sings with Jawqet El-Sheikh Imam, a Toronto tribute band to one of the 20th centuryâs great artist revolutionaries.
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Tuesday Feb 13th 2007 (2 events: 12pm and 7pm)
12pm:
Film Screening: “Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance”
Location: Sidney Smith (room 2128)
Directions: 100 St. George Street (Exit from St. George Subway Station and walk South a little past Harbord)
Time: 12pm
7pm:
“The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine”
Speakers: Azada Rahi, Zac Smith, Issam Al Yamani
Moderator: Kole Kilibarda
Location: University of Toronto, Tanz Neuroscience Building, Room 6/7 (Theatre)
Directions: 6 Queen’s Park Crescent West (On the North-East Corner of College and Queen’s Park (right next to Queen’s Park Subway Station)
Time: 7pm
Issam Al-Yamani is a second generation Palestinian Refugee from Lebanon. He is a writer and journalist, and is the former Executive Director of Palestine House Cultural and Educational Centre in Mississauga. Despite the fact that he has two Canadian born children, is an established member of the Palestinian community in Canada, and was not involved in military activities, the Canadian government has denied him citizenship and has worked to deport him for over 20 years due to his membership in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Azada Rahi is an Afghani student at the University of Toronto. She has been involved with the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid and the Grass Roots Anti-Imperialist Network â Toronto (GRAIN).
Zac Smith is a student at York University and is an active member of the Palestine Solidarity Committee as well the Grass Roots Anti-Imperialist Network â York (GRAIN).
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Wednesday Feb 14th 2007 (2 events: 12pm and 7pm)
12pm:
RALLY AGAINST RACIST POLICE INACTION AND IMPUNITY!
Hundreds of Indigenous women have been murdered or have gone missing over the last 30 years. Today we come together to demonstrate against the complicity of the colonizer state and its institutions – police, RCMP, coroners offices and the courts, in the ongoing genocide against First Nations. Indigenous communities are over-policed and indigenous girls make up the fastest growing prison population yet their deaths go uninvestigated and their killers unpunished.
Organized by NO MORE SILENCE
Location: Outside Police headquarters at Bay and College
Directions: Exit at College Subway Station and walk half a block west.
Time: 12pm noon
7pm:
“Apartheid in Present-day Palestine”
Speakers: Walter Lehn, Jon Elmer, Nimer Sultany
Moderator: Zein Ayoub
Location: University of Toronto, Tanz Neuroscience Building, Room 6/7 (Theatre)
Directions: 6 Queen’s Park Crescent West (On the North-East Corner of College and Queen’s Park (right next to Queen’s Park Subway Station)
Time: 7pm
Walter Lehn is a leading expert on the Jewish National Fund; his book The Jewish National Fund (1988, authored in association with Uri Davis) is considered the seminal text on this organization. He worked with the United Nations in Beirut during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in the early 1980s, was Director of the Middle East Center at the University of Texas at Austin and Professor of English Linguistics the University of Minnesota, and Al-Najah University, (Nablus, Palestine). He is now retired and lives in Toronto.
Jon Elmer is a photo-journalist, war correspondent and activist who divides his time between Palestine and Canada. With Valerie Zink, he is co-founder and co-editor of the online journal FromOccupiedPalestine.org, featuring frontline reportage and an extensive resource archive. His interviews and writings have appeared in the Journal of Palestinian Studies, Counterpunch, Z Magazine, Palestine Chronicle, The Progressive magazine, The Dominion, The New Standard, and shunpiking magazine. He has just returned from a two-month trip to Lebanon and Palestine.
Nimer Sultany is an SJD candidate at Harvard Law School. He worked as a human rights lawyer in the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and as a researcher at Mada al-Carmel – The Arab Center for Applied Social Research. He has published numerous articles and books on the Palestinian question including: Citizens without Citizenship, Israel and the Palestinian Minority (2003), and Israel and the Palestinian Minority (2004).
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Thursday Feb 15th 2007, 7pm
“Ideologies of Genocide and Apartheid”
Speakers: Gabi Piterberg, Joel Kovel
Moderator: Navid Anvari
Location: University of Toronto, Tanz Neuroscience Building, Room 6/7 (Theatre)
Directions: 6 Queen’s Park Crescent West (On the North-East Corner of College and Queen’s Park (right next to Queen’s Park Subway Station)
Time: 7pm
Gabi Piterburg was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and grew up in Israel where he served in the state-mandated military service during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in the early 1980s. He is one of the foremost scholars on the intellectual, literary and ideological development of Zionism, and was one of the speakers at Israeli Apartheid Week 2006 in Oxford University where he received his D.Phil.
A flattering Zionist attack on Professor Piterburg can be found at https://www.uclaprofs.com/profs/piterberg.html
Joel Kovel is both a scholar and an activist. He has been Professor of Social Studies at Bard College, Annandale, NY since 1988. He has published nine books (including White Racism, which was nominated for a National Book Award in 1972) and over a hundred articles and reviews. A renowned environmentalist, he joined the Green Party in 1990, and was the partyâs candidate for Senator in 1998. A more complete description appears on his website: www.joelkovel.org
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Friday Feb 16th 2007, 7pm
“Debunking the Myth of Israeli Democracy”
Speaker: Jamal Zahalka
Moderator: Rafeef Ziadah
Location: OISE Auditorium (Ontario Institute of Secondary Education)
Directions: 252 Bloor Street West. Next to St. George Subway Station (exit on Bedford Street),
Time: 7pm
Dr. Jamal Zahalka is a Member of the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) with the National Democratic Assembly (Tajjamuâ Party), headed by Dr. Azmi Beshara. He has been one of the most outspoken advocates of Palestinian rights in Israel, working towards improving work conditions, employment opportunities, and civil and social rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel. Before becoming a Knesset member, Dr. Zahalka was the founder and President of the Centre for Community Development (https://www. ahalicenter.org), which took on the task of strengthening grassroots activism among Palestinian citizens in Israel through community organizing, as a means to struggle for full citizenship and minority rights, and to ensure the equal distribution of national resources.
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Saturday Feb 17 2007 (2 events: 1pm and 7pm)
1pm:
BOYCOTT CHAPTERS/INDIGO DAY OF ACTION
Please join CAIA and allies to protest Israeli Apartheid and highlight the support it receives from the Heseg Foundation. Please visit www.caiaweb.org for more information about Heseg and the Chapters/Indigo connection.
Organized by the Coalition against Israeli Apartheid
Location: Israeli Consulate (180 Bloor Street West)
Directions: Exit at St. George Subway Station and walk East on Bloor St. till you get to 180 Bloor Street West, just before Avenue Rd.
Time: 1pm
7pm:
Join SAIA for TRIVIA NIGHT!
PLUS music by Rubin, Boonaa Mohamed, and many more!
light refreshments will be served
Bring your family and friends – this is a child-friendly event
Most importantly…Bring your game!
$5 or pwyc
Location: Cat’s Eye (University of Toronto)
Directions: 150 Charles Street. Exit at Museum Subway Station, walk a few meters East on Charles Street and the building will be on your left. There will be signs indicating which entrance to use.
Time: 7pm
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MONTREAL:
As part of Israeli Apartheid Week 2007…
Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights presents:
“Debunking the Myth of Israeli Democracy”
Speaker:
Dr. Jamal Zahalqa
Palestinian member of the Israeli Knesset, and member of the National Democratic Assembly (Balad) Party
Thursday February 15th 2007
8:30pm
Concordia University, Hall Building, H-937
Dr. Jamal Zahalka is a Palestinian Israeli and member of the Israeli Knesset. Zahalka will be speaking about the nature of Israeli apartheid and how it operates within Israel to discriminate against the indigenous Palestinian minority. His lecture will expose the brutal reality faced by the Palestinian citizens of Israel and debunk the myth of “Israeli democracy”.
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OTTAWA:
As part of Israeli Apartheid Week 2007…
Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights Ottawa and the Association of Palestinian Arab Canadians Present:
Dr. Jamal Zahalka
Palestinian Member of the Israeli Knesset
With the National Democratic Assembly (Hizb Al-Tajammuâ, headed by Dr. Azmi Beshara)
Speaking on:
Israeli Apartheid and the Myth of Israeli Democracy
On February 14th 2007
Starting at 7:30pm
At the sports complex, University of Ottawa – Room E217
801 King Edward near the SITE
Dr. Jamal Zahalka is a Member of the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) with the National Democratic Assembly (Tajjamuâ Party), headed by Dr. Azmi Beshara. He has been one of the most outspoken advocates of Palestinian rights in Israel, working towards improving work conditions, employment opportunities, and civil and social rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel. Before becoming a Knesset member, Dr. Zahalka was the founder and President of the Centre for Community Development (https://www. ahalicenter.org), which took on the task of strengthening grassroots activism among Palestinian citizens in Israel through community organizing, as a means to struggle for full citizenship and minority rights, and to ensure the equal distribution of national resources.
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HAMILTON:
As Part of Israeli Apartheid Week 2007â¦
Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights and McMaster Muslims for Peace and Justice Present:
Lecture: Palestine & Israel: Roots of Conflict, Prospects for Peace
Speaker:
Professor Norman G. Finkelstein
When: February 15, 2007 at 7:00pm
Where: Health Science Center (HSC) 1A1, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
Professor Norman Finkelstein is a great advocate for Palestinian rights. To find out more, visit https://www.normanfinkelstein.com Norman G. Finkelstein received his doctorate in 1988 from the Department of Politics, Princeton University, for a thesis on the theory of Zionism. He currently teaches political theory at DePaul University in Chicago.