Sponsored by: Methodist Federation for Social Action & United Methodists for Karios Response Contact: umkr@kairosresponse.org
Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0udemurjgiHtNzQhKNepU4GLOsPCJqJ0Gh
Details: This MFSA/UMKR webinar will address a bombshell investigation by the Nobel Prize winning international organization "Human Rights Watch." They not only conclude that Israel is now an apartheid state but assert "crimes against humanity." The report is available here: https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/04/27/abusive-israeli-policies-constitute-crimes-apartheid-persecution. Want a brief overview of the report? See the Human Rights Watch video: "A Threshold Crossed" (3 mins). Watch it here https://default.salsalabs.org/Tf5db4259-de8c-451a-85e1-c635491f26a3/f13b7c1a-b6a7-4486-bab7-29b991b34647
Reaction to it, both pro and con, has been passionate.
SPEAKERS
Phyllis Bennis is a Fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies and the Director of their New Internationalism Project, focusing on the Middle East, U.S. wars, and United Nations issues. In 2001 she helped found the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights and the United for Peace and Justice anti-war coalition. She serves now on the national board of Jewish Voice for Peace and works with many anti-war and Palestinian rights organizations, writing and speaking widely across the U.S. and around the world.
She has served as an adviser to UN officials on Middle East issues and was twice short-listed to become the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Bennis has written and edited eleven books, including her very popular primer, now in its 7th edition: Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict. She has also written Before & After: US Foreign Policy and Challenging Empire: How People, Governments and the UN Defy U.S. Power.
Philip Farah is a co-founder of Palestinian Christian Alliance for Peace (PCAP) and the Washington Interfaith Alliance for Middle East Peace. Farah has written frequently and addressed audiences across the United States on Israel/Palestine and the region. Born and raised in East Jerusalem, Philip has also lived and worked in several other countries in the Middle East. He works now in the Washington DC metro area as a natural resources economist. He is a leading organizer in the U.S. movement for Palestinian human rights, in particular in ecumenical and interfaith coalitions and campaigns. Over the last decade, Philip has been a valued keynote speaker at several United Methodist justice events.