Israeli Apartheid Week - London, UK

[IAW 2012 materials coming soon. For 2011, see below.]

Israeli Apartheid Week 1st - 11th March 2010 Palestine Societies in SOAS, UCL and LSE Day One Anatomy of Israeli Rule in The Occupied Palestinian Territories Monday 1 March 2010, 7pm LSE, Room D702 (Clement House) Speakers: Adi Ophir, associate professor at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University Sari Hanafi, Associate professor at the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, American University of Beirut

Day Two Stop the Wall! Tuesday, 2 March 2010 UCL – Room and time TBC Speakers: Taysir Arbasi, Former olive farmer and project director of Zaytoun, Palestine Michael Warschawski, Alternative Information Centre, a joint Palestinian-Israeli research group Yasmin Khan, War on Want

Day Three Apartheid Israel and the Land Question Wednesday, 3 March 2010, 7pm SOAS, Room G50 Speakers: Salah Mohsen, community organiser and an activist for the rights of the Palestinian citizens of Israel, a member of the General Council of the National Democratic Alliance Nidal Rafa, TV producer and journalist based in Jerusalem, sits on the boards of the English-language publication This Week in Palestine, and the al-Hosh gallery of Palestinian art in Jerusalem.

Day Four The Application of Universal Jurisdiction After the Cast Lead Offensive Thursday, 4 March 2010, 7pm SOAS. Room B102 Speaker: Daniel Machover, Co-founder of Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights in 1988, Machover actively pursues potential legal remedies in the UK and EU for Palestinian victims of Israeli human rights abuses

Day Five Palestinian Women’s Lives in Occupied Jerusalem: Hosted by the SOAS Gender Centre Organised by CAMDEN ABU DIS FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION Monday, 8 March 2010, 7pm SOAS, G2 Women and Children in the Old City Speaker: Hiyam Elayan, Co-ordinator, Saraya Women’s Centre, Old City. Women and children in a Jerusalem Refugee Camp Speaker: Amal Ehjazi, Co-ordinator, Women’s Centre, Shu’fat Camp. The Health Situation in Jerusalem and its Suburbs Speaker: Dr Huda Hassan, Doctor for UNWRA, lives in Abu Dis and works in Jerusalem. Palestinian Women Under Occupation Speaker: Dr Fadwa Al-Labadi, Director of the Insan Centre for Gender Studies, Al Quds University, Abu Dis.

Day Six Democracy or Apartheid? Israel's regime of control and the Palestinians Tuesday, 9 March 2010, 6pm LSE, U8 (Tower 1, access from Clements Inn) Speaker: Ben White, writer and freelance journalist, author of 'Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide' (Pluto Press, 2009).

Day Seven Film Screening: Thursday, 11 March 2010, 6pm LSE, D702 (Clements House) Yizkor: Slaves of Memory Director: Eyal Sivan, 1991 Followed by a Q&A with the director IZKOR, is a portrait of the Israeli society that has never been shown before, thirty days in the life of a state that lives to the rhythm of its memory. This award-winning film puts forward a passionate and severe analysis of the Hebrew state. “IZKOR,” means "remember" in Hebrew and this film looks in depth at this imperative that is imposed on the children of Israel. In Israel during the month of April feast days and celebrations take place one after another. School children of all ages prepare to pay tribute to their country’s past. The collective memory becomes a terribly efficient tool for the training of young minds. The author of the film is an Israeli. By going to rediscover the myths and symbols that have contributed to the making of his own identity, as well as that of every Israeli, he is bringing into play his own personal experience See last year's London schedule.