SOAS Palestine Society
Presents:Israeli Apartheid Week

February 12 – February 15, 2007

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

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.

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

Day Four:
Thursday February 15, 2007
Venue: G2 07:00 pm

Is One State an End to Apartheid?

Chair: M. 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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