OMAR BARGHOUTI’S US TOUR
NOVEMBER 2009
Omar BARGHOUTI is a leading organizer in the international movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against the state of Israel. He is coming to the United States for a multi-city tour to build support for the growing and powerful international BDS movement. We urge you to attend and publicize the events and take this opportunity to learn more about the movement.
“To have a dialogue you have to have a certain minimal level of a common denominator based on a common vision for the ultimate solution based on equality and ending injustice. If you don’t have that common denominator than it’s negotiation between the stronger and weaker party and, as I’ve written elsewhere, you can’t have a bridge between them but only a ladder where you go up or down not across … I call this the master/slave type of coexistence … A master and a slave can also reach an agreement where this is reality and you cannot challenge it and you make the best out of it. There is no war, no conflict, nobody is killing anybody, but a master remains a master and the slave remains a slave — so this is not the kind of peace that we the oppressed are seeking — the minimum is to have a just peace. Only with justice can we have a sustainable peace. So dialogue does not work — it has not worked in reality and cannot work in principle. Boycotts have worked in reality and in principle so there is absolutely no reason why they cannot work, because Israel has total impunity given the official support it gets from the west in all fields (economic, cultural, academic and so on). Without raising the price of its oppression, it will never give up; it will never concede on any of our rights.” Omar Barghouti, http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10562.shtml
Los Angeles
November 1: “Palestine: Thirsting for Justice. Israel’s Control of Water as a Tool of Apartheid and a Means of Ethnic Cleansing”, 4 pm, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles.
Further info: Robin Ellis, rkellis19[at]earthlink.net
November 2: “Justice, Freedom and the Ethical Role of Intellectuals: The Question of Palestine”, 7 pm, 101 Taper Hall of the Humanities, University of Southern California; introduced by Ruth W. Gilmore, respondent Arieh Saposnik, Gilbert Chair in Israel Studies, UCLA.
Further info: David Lloyd, colles2012[at]sbcglobal.net
San Francisco
November 3: 7 pm, Jack Adams Hall, Cesar Chavez Student Center, San Francisco State University, with respondents Professors Rabab Abdelhadi (SFSU) and Judith Butler (UC Berkeley).
Further Info: Jess Ghannam, jess.ghannam[at]gmail.com
Minneapolis
November 4: 7pm, “Debating academic boycott: A quest for justice in Palestine”, Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Introduced by Bruce Braun, Institute for Global Studies, University of Minnesota.
Further information: Bruce Braun, braun038[at]umn.edu
New York
November 5: 7-9 pm, Altschul Hall, Room 417, Columbia University, New York, debating the motion “BDS against Israel is counterproductive to the pursuit of a just peace in the Middle East.” In debate with George P. Fletcher, Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia Law School.
November 6: 2:00-4:00 PM at New York University with Nancy Kricorian from Code Pink (Ahava Boycott Campaign) and Ryvka Bar Zohar from The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel (NYCBI) (Motorola Boycott Campaign).
Further NY Information: Adalah-NY: The Coalition for Justice in the Middle East: http://adalahny.org/, info[at]adalahny.org
Washington, D.C.
November 7: Panel: 12-1.45 pm, “Academic Freedom and the Right to Education: The Question of Palestine”, with Fred Moten, David Lloyd, and Steven Salaita, American Studies Association, in the auditorium of the Renaissance Washington Hotel in Washington, D.C.
Further information, David Lloyd, colles2012[at]sbcglobal.net
