Beyond the Rhetoric: The Human Realities of the Israeli Occupation

While the White House is paying increasing attention to a 'Middle East Peace Process', and politicians in Israel delay comprehensive peace talks, the reality of the on-going Israeli Occupation has been all but lost in sound bites. Bekah Wolf, who has lived the last 3 years in the Occupied West Bank and is the International Coordinator for the Palestine Solidarity Project, is going on her third nationwide speaking tour, bringing an eyewitness' accounts, along with a critical analysis of the realities of Israeli occupation in 2009 and what they mean in an international context, especially in regards to the recent UN fact-finding mission headed by international jurist Richard Goldstone, the prospects for renewed three-party negotiations, and the upsurge in the international Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaigns.

Time: 5pm
Where: U of R: Gowen Room in Wilson Commons
When: Sat., Nov. 14
Donations welcome; no one turned away for lack of funds

Bekah Wolf is an American Jew with Israeli citizenship who has worked in the Occupied Palestinian Territories since 2003. She is the international coordinator for the Palestine Solidarity Project (PSP), a Palestinian organization dedicated to organizing and supporting popular, unarmed resistance to the occupation based in the village of Beit Ommar. She is speaking on behalf of the PSP committee, a group of Palestinian men and women (all of whom were prevented from traveling to the United States to speak themselves), including her husband and recent political prisoner, Mousa Abu Maria. For more information about PSP, please see the website:
http://palestinesolidarityproject.org

This event is co-sponsored by UR-SDS, Muslim Students Association, UR Hip Hop