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Ben Gurion UniversityBen Gurion University - Neve Gordon (Dept of Political Science) to be Keynote Speaker in Conference in Canada endorsing Palestinian TerrorismHere is how the conference is advertised: Not in Our Name: Jews in Solidarity
with the Palestinian Resistance: This year's Annual General Meeting of Independent Jewish Voices, Canada will focus on issues of Jewish solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for self-determination. Keynote Speakers: Yafa Jarrar and Neve Gordon All Are Welcome
http://rabble.ca/whatsup/not-our-name-jewish-solidarity-palestinian-resistance-ijv-annual-general-meeting Not In Our Name: Jewish Solidarity
with Palestinian Resistance: IJV Annual General Meeting Location This year's Annual General Meeting of Independent Jewish Voices, Canada will focus on issues of Jewish solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for self-determination. Keynote Speakers: Yafa Jarrar and Neve Gordon Yafa Jarrar is a Palestinian activist who was born in Jerusalem and she moved to Canada in 2003. Yafa has been working on Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaigns and advocacy in Palestine and Canada since the call for BDS was issued in 2005. Neve Gordon is an Israeli academic and activist. He has been a visiting scholar at a number of universities and this year is a member at the Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton. During the first intifada, he was the director of Physicians for Human Rights – Israel. His most recent book is "Israel's Occupation." Participants will have opportunities to engage with activists currently working within the struggle for Palestinian liberation and other anti- colonial movements, as well as hear about current campaigns, and about developing new strategies for working within and outside Jewish communities in Canada and deepening international connections. IJV members will also discuss internal policies and how to move IJV forward. Workshop and panel topics will include a discussion of the politics of solidarity; the Jewish National Fund; Israel's role in exporting arms, surveillance and security systems globally; Canadian complicity with Israel's oppression of Palestinians, building alternative Jewish communities; the current situation in Syria and its implications for the region; the attempts to ban Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) from the Queer Pride march and pinkwashing. Other speakers include: Lia Tarachansky, Bob Lovelace, Yves Engler, Amir Hassanpour, Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, Naomi Binder Wall, Jimmy Johnson, Yakov Rabkin, Ilana Rossof, Natalie Kouri-Towe, Tim McCaskell, Dylan Penner, and others. For full schedule and online registration please see our webpage @ http://ijvagm.com. Also see the IJV website: http://ijvcanada.org/ For more information and any questions you may
have, please email: All Are Welcome ======================================== Articles appearing on IsraCampus.Org.il are those of the writer and do not necessarily represent the opinion of IsraCampus.Org.il
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