IAW 2012 Boston

Welcome to IAW 2012 Boston    email info@itisapartheid.org for more information

IAW Boston is sponsored by North Eastern University SJP,   Boston University SJP, Harvard College Palestine Solidarity Committee, University of Mass Boston SJP, Brown University SJP, Tufts Sjp   Ajjp Boston,   The www.itisapartheid.org Collective,  Boston Coalition For Palestinian Rights.

Monday, February 27

Brandeis University: "Solidarity Against Apartheid - Activists Panel"

Mandell, Rm G3 @7pm-9pm, 

https://www.facebook.com/events/277581408977645/

Boston University:  Screening of "Budrus"

College of Arts and Sciences, Rm B12 @ 7pm
725 Commonwealth Ave.

Budrus is an award-winning feature documentary film about a Palestinian community organizer, Ayed Morrar, who unites local Fatah and Hamas members along with Israeli supporters in an unarmed movement to save his village of Budrus from destruction by Israel’s Apartheid Barrier. Success eludes them until his 15-year-old daughter, Iltezam, launches a women’s contingent that quickly moves to the front lines. Struggling side by side, father and daughter unleash an inspiring, yet little-known, movement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories that is still gaining ground today.

In an action-filled documentary chronicling this movement from its infancy, Budrus shines a light on people who choose nonviolence to confront a threat. The movie is directed by award-winning filmmaker Julia Bacha (co-writer and editor of Control Room and co-director Encounter Point), and produced by Bacha, Palestinian journalist Rula Salameh, and filmmaker and human rights advocate Ronit Avni (formerly of WITNESS, Director of Encounter Point).

http://www.facebook.com/events/108735989254563/

Tufts University: Diana Buttu: Apartheid Israel?

Pearson, Rm 106 @ 7pm

 Palestinian-Canadian lawyer and former legal advisor to the PLO Negotiations Support Unit will be delivering a talk titled 'Israeli Apartheid?' 

Here's a link to that event: http://www.facebook.com/events/252472438166239/

February 28

Brandeis University: "Invisible Citizens: Arabs of the Unrecognized Villages in South Israel with Jazi Abu Kaf"

 Mandel, Rml G3 @ 7pm-9pm

Boston University:  Human Rights and LGBTQ Subjectivity in Israel-Palestine

Kenmore Classroom Building, Rm 101 @ 7pm
565 Commonwealth Ave. 

This lecture will examine the discourse surrounding LGBTQ rights and how it is employed by various Israeli and Palestinian constituents. We will also discuss the past, present, and future of queer engagement in promoting social justice and human rights in Israel-Palestine. 

http://www.facebook.com/events/248324795245596/

February 29

Brandeis University: "KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Ali Abunimah - Who is Afraid of the One State Solution?"

Olin-Sang Auditorium @7pm-9pm

Harvard University: 7 PM: 

FILM SCREENING of "Slingshot Hip Hop," a movie which braids together the stories of young Palestinians living in Gaza, the West Bank and inside Israel as they discover Hip Hop and employ it as a tool to surmount divisions imposed by occupation and poverty. From internal checkpoints and Separation Walls to gender norms and generational differences, this is the story of young people crossing the borders that separate them. Location TBD

http://www.facebook.com/events/367312553293116/?ref=ts

Boston University: Native America and Palestine: Indigeneity and Settler-Colonialism

College of Arts and Sciences, Rm 224 @ 7pm
725 Commonwealth Ave. 

We will be having an event on the relationship of colonial settler occupation in Native America, Hawaii and Palestine. Professor Kauanui will talk on the nature and effects of colonization on indigenous peoples, including the Wampanoag, who lived in the area BU now occupies.

http://www.facebook.com/events/283370835061549/

March 1

Brown University (Providence, RI): "One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse" A Lecture by Ali Abunimah

Salomon Hall 001, Main Green, @ 7pm

https://www.facebook.com/events/324687677568135/

Harvard University: Day-Long Hunger Strike in Solidarity with Khader Adnan and all Palestinian prisoners in Administrative Detention: Khader Adnan was kept in indefinite administrative detention by Israel without being charged with a crime until recently. During this time he was on a 66-day hunger strike, and only recently was promised freedom. Today, 279 Palestinians are held by Israel indefinitely, charged with no crime and no hope of release.

Members of PSC will hold a day-long hunger strike in solidarity with these prisoners, and we will hold a joint dinner at 6 PM at Casablanca in Harvard Square.

http://www.facebook.com/events/367312553293116/?ref=ts

Boston University: Jewish and Palestinian Experiences with Israeli Apartheid

Boston University: Photonics Center, Rm 206 @ 7pm

8 St. Mary's St.

We are showcasing Jewish and Palestinian voices and their experiences with Apartheid within Israel and the Occupied Territories. 

Speakers:
Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and bestselling author whose articles and video documentaries have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Daily Beast, The Nation, The Guardian, The Independent Film Channel, The Huffington Post, Salon.com, Al Jazeera English and many other publications. He is a writing fellow for the Nation Institute. His book, Republican Gomorrah: Inside The Movement That Shattered The Party, is a New York Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller.

Samer Arafa is a Palestinian refugee who was born in East Jerusalem and has been egregiously harmed by racist laws enacted by the state of Israel. He holds a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University and works in the field of Solar Energy. He is also part of the group that started Northeastern University's SJP. 

http://www.facebook.com/events/354044307952635/

March 2

Tufts University: Max Blumenthal: Birthright-Israel and the Whitewashing of Apartheid

Eaton Hall, Rm 206 @ 2pm-3:30pm

March 5

Harvard University: "Tel Aviv Night Clubs & West Bank Checkpoints: The Politics of Being Fabulous in the Holy Land":

Please join us for a discussion with Sa'ed Atshan, member of Palestinian LGBTQ activist group Al Qaws. He will discuss the various ways in which discourses of LGBTQ rights are deployed strategically by Israel and Palestinians as a part of the conflict. Event link is here: http://www.facebook.com/events/260404430703888/
 

March 6

Brown University (Providence, RI): "Tel Aviv Night Clubs and West Bank Checkpoints: Queer Politics & Apartheid" A Lecture by Sa'ed Atshan

@7pm

https://www.facebook.com/events/397425473607831/