Israeli apartheid and Palestinian popular resistance with Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh
Mazin Qumsiyeh, Human Rights Activist, currently teaches at Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities in Occupied Palestine. He is president of the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement Between People and coordinator of the Popular Committee to Defend Ush Ghrab (PCDUG)*
*Dr. Qumsiyeh has written several books including the highly acclaimed, Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human Rights and the Israeli/Palestinian Struggle and has served on the faculties of several universities. He has also served on the boards and steering committees of groups including the Peace Action Education Fund, the US Campaign to End Israeli Occupation, the Palestinian American Congress, the Association for One Democratic State in Israel/Palestine, and BoycottIsraeliGoods.org.
Professor Qumsiyeh published over 200 letters and 100 op-ed pieces and has been interviewed on several TV and radio programs.
Appearances in national media include the Washington Post, New York Times, Boston Globe, CNBC, C-Span, and ABC, among others. He also regularly lectures on issues of human rights and international law. He is currently working on a book on Palestinian civil resistance from the beginning of the Zionist project in the 19th century until today. His website is: http://qumsiyeh.org.
Sponsors include: Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee, U of Pitt Students for Justice in Palestine,
Book Tour: PALESTINE Israel and the U.S. Empire
PALESTINE Israel and the U.S. Empire
Talk and discussion with author Richard Becker
This book provides a sharp analysis of the struggle for Palestine—from the division of the Middle East by Western powers and the Zionist settler movement, to the founding of Israel and its role as a watchdog for U.S. interests, to present-day
conflicts and the prospects for a just resolution.
The narrative is firmly rooted in the politics of Palestinian liberation. Here is a necessary contribution to the heroic efforts of the Palestinian people to achieve justice in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.
Join us for a presentation and discussion that will interest both long-term Palestinian rights activists and those who are new to understanding the issue.
“Becker gives us the most focused and penetrating
analysis we have of the real dynamics in the continuing
persecution of the Palestinian people.”
—Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general
“This book is a clarion call to end the last vestiges of colonialism in the 21st century.”
—Imam Mahdi Bray, executive director, Muslim American Society Freedom
“A must-read for anyone seeking to understand the Palestinian cause.”
—Samera Sood, executive board, Palestinian American Women’s Association
“Becker foregrounds what others usually set aside: the integral role of U.S. imperialism, with the Zionist State as an essential partner.”
—Joel Kovel, author, “Overcoming Zionism”
RICHARD BECKER is a writer and commentator on Middle East
affairs. He has visited the Middle East on numerous occasions.
Becker has contributed to books and videos on Iraq and Middle
East affairs, and been a featured speaker across the country and
around the world. He is a regular contributor
to Liberation newspaper and PSLweb.org.
Paperback, 233 pages, illustrated, indexed. Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-9841220-0-4
October 2009, PSL Publications
PalestineBook.com
also on Amazon!
Mon, March 1, 8:30pm
Posvar Hall, Room 1500 – University of Pittsburgh
Sponsored by ANSWER Coalition – Pittsburgh with Students for
Justice in Palestine. For more information: pittsburgh@answercoalition.org
PSC/SJP Monthly Palestine Film Screening
1. Bil’in Habibti
Thursday Jan 21 8:30 PM
William Pitt Union Assembly Room
2. Jerusalem: East Side Story
Thursday February 18, 8:30 PM
William Pitt Union Kurtzman Room
3. Rachel
Thursday March 18, 8:30 PM
William Pitt Union Kurtzman Room
OCC credit available
Short discussion to follow
Info on Films:
1. Bil’in Habibti (Thursday Jan 21st 8:30 pm; Pitt Student Union Ballroom)
Directed by Shai Carmeli-Pollak : « I did not come to Bilin as a filmmaker, but as an activist, to take part in the protest against the land theft caused by the separation barrier.
For a year and a half, I used my camera to document the moments of despair and hope, danger and courage and the birth of true partnership between Palestinians and Israelis. During this period the village has become a symbol of the joint struggle against the barrier and the occupation.
2.Jerusalem: East Side Story (Thursday Feb 18th 8:30 pm; Pitt Student Union Kurtzman Room)
The latest shipment of history is the Israeli occupation. In 1948, the western part of the city fell under Israeli control; in 1967, the eastern part fell under Israeli occupation. Since then, Israel has pursued a policy of Judaizing the city, aiming to achieve “Jewish demographic superiority.” Part of this policy is to drive Palestinian Muslims and Christians out of the city; denying their presence, history, and ties to the land.
The documentary takes you on a journey exposing Israel’s policy to gain supremacy and hegemony over the city and its inhabitants. It also touches on the future of the city: Jerusalem is the key to peace; without Jerusalem, there is no peace for anyone.
The film includes interviews with Palestinian and Israeli leaders, human rights activists and political analysts.
3. Rachel (Thursday March 18th 8:30 pm, Pitt Student Union Kurtzman Room)
Directed by Simone Bitton “The Wall”. On March 16, 2003, in the almost uninterrupted tide of Middle Eastern current affairs and just before the war in Iraq, a small tragic event was reported by some press agencies, just a few lines in the newspaper, or a 45 -second report on television: A young American peace activist was killed in the Gaza Strip, crushed by an Israeli bulldozer while she was trying to prevent the destruction of a Palestinian house.
Memorial for the Gaza Dead
MEMORIALIZE THE GAZA DEAD!
A VIGIL
THURSDAY DECEMBER 31, 4 – 6 PM
FEDERAL BUILDING, DOWNTOWN, PITTSBURGH, PA
Sponsors include: Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee, Students for Justice in Palestine, Codepink, and many more to come…
One Year Anniversary of “Operation Cast Lead” Attacks on Gaza
On 27 December 2008, without warning, Israeli forces began a devastating bombing campaign on the Gaza Strip codenamed Operation “Cast Lead”. Its stated aim was to end rocket attacks into Israel by armed groups affiliated with Hamas and other Palestinian factions. However, the Israeli attack targeted civilians, school, universities, mosques, factories, and farms.
By 18 January 2009 some 1,400 Palestinians had been killed, a third of them children, and large areas of Gaza had been razed to the ground. To this date, and in spite of a massive world outcry against Israel’s murderous assault, not one Israeli government official or military personnel has been brought to justice.
Israel continues to receive full support from President Barak Obama, and the U. S. Congress, even though the UN Human Rights Commission, Amnesty International and other human rights organizations have demanded a full investigation into Israel’s conduct during its latest war.
Gaza remains devastated
On Thursday, December 31, the Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee and others will join hundreds of groups worldwide to memorialize Israel’s latest war victims with a reading of the names of the dead, along with a visual presentation of Gaza today.
We plan to vigil outside the Federal Building on First Night, between 4 and 6PM.
Your support is needed
Please consider organizational support to the vigil by having your organization endorse and encourage all to attend.
Stand for Palestine- Every First Thursday!
Note: The Stands are every First Thursday, at the intersection of Forbes Ave and Bigelow Blvd, outside of the Hillman Library, from 5:30 – 6:30PM
- Join the Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee, Pitt Students for Justice in Palestine, and members of the community for our weekly “Stand for Palestine.”
- 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza have been under a debilitating military siege for the past two years, creating a “surrealistic situation in the Gaza Strip” forcing the tiny piece of land back to the Middle Ages, according to Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Karen Abu Zayd.
- On July 3, 2009, in an act of piracy, Israeli forces kidnapped 21 passengers on board a boat of the Free Gaza Movement–A human rights group that in August 2008 sent the first international boats to land in the port of Gaza in 41 years. Their mission is to break the siege of Gaza and to raise international awareness about the prison-like closure of the Gaza Strip. Former US Congreewoman Cynthia McKinney and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Maguire were on the boat and are still in an Israeli prison.
-Learn more about what President Jimmy Carter and Nelson Mandela have called “Worse than Apartheid South Africa” at Stand for Palestine
Palestine Rocks. benefit show for palestine. Thurs July 30
Thursday July 30, 2009
10pm-2am
With DJ James Gyre
Singer Songwriter Leslie Addis
Man in the Street
Live Art with Alberto J Almarza
Poetry
A Monster Raffle
Middle eastern food
and a lot more
$10-20
with no one turned away for lack’o funds
Shadow Lounge
5972 baum blvd
Pittsburgh, PA 15206
for more info contact, joeskillet@riseup.net
