13:30-15:00 ET / 20:30-22:00 PALESTINE / 10:30-12:00 PT / 18:30-20:00 GMT
For eleven days in May 2021, the world watched in horror as Israel engaged once again in a relentless and inhumane military attack on Gaza. This outright military attack followed days of organized violence and threatened evictions in Jerusalem during Ramadan. Few international media outlets reported on a systematic series of violent attacks on Palestinian faculty and students in academic institutions across Israel. Peaceful Palestinian protesters were attacked by right-wing Jewish civilian militants while police stood by and watched; Palestinian students were assaulted or threatened by campus security; Others were arrested at random, some beaten and humiliated while in police custody; A great number of students fled their institutions mid-semester in fear of their lives and safety. Only a few academic institutions commented on these events, and none offered students any long term reassurance.
Please join us on Wednesday, June 23, from 1:30 to 3:00 pm ET, to hear directly from Palestinian scholars describing some of what they have been seeing, hearing, and experiencing on Israeli campuses over the last few weeks. We invite you to hear the testimonies, ask questions, and learn about how we might lend our support in a meaningful way.
Opening remarks:
Nadia Abu El-Haj (Anthropology Department, Society of Fellows & Center for Palestine Studies, Columbia University)
Moderated by:
Areej Sabbagh-Khoury (Sociology and Anthropology Department, Hebrew University, Academia for Equality)
Speakers:
Rabea Eghbariah (Lawyer with Adalah Legal Center, and SJD student at Harvard Law School)
Arees Bishara (Sociology PhD student and researcher, Academic and social coordinator of Sawa Program, Tel Aviv University)
Eman Suliman & Khalid Ghnaem (Students, Ben-Gurion University)
Yara Shahine Gharablé (Social and political activist from Yaffa, studying history and gender studies in Tel Aviv University).
Rafat Abu Aish (Journalist and activist, law graduate, Lakiya village, Alnaqab)
Concluding remarks by Areej Sabbagh-Khoury.
The event is organized by Academia for Equality, and co-sponsored by The Center for Palestine Studies, The Middle East Institute at Columbia University, Association of Black Anthropologists, Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association, Scientists For Palestine, British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES), Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies, San Francisco State University, Department of Anthropology, University of the Western Cape (South Africa), and NYU Gallatin Human Rights Initiative.