June 10, 2PM & 3PM - CUNY Graduate Center (365 Fifth Avenue), NYC
DAY 14 of the CUNY Hunger Strike for Gaza is marked by new strikers and new programming! (Event descriptions below)
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🗓️Tuesday, June 10
⏰2PM – “The Community Living Canvas” workshop
The Community Living Canvas invites community members to add brush strokes, drawings, etchings, etc., to a communal canvas. At the end, the participating body gets to keep this painting as a representation of the community they've fostered.
⏰3PM – “Breaking the Iron Wall: How to Understand Zionist Propaganda” teach-in
In 1923, Ze’ev Jabotinsky (born Vladimir Jabotinsky)—genocidal forefather of the ruling Likud party and founder of the Betar Zionist Youth Movement—wrote that the Palestinian people would continue to resist the zionist colonial project until “not a single breach is visible in the iron wall.” The ongoing resistance of the iron wall of zionist military, political, and ideological power, demonstrates that breaches remain. Palestinian revolutionaries have long viewed the study of zionism as necessary for widening these breaches and defeating the project that usurps their land.
Together, we’ll study the works of two such revolutionaries, Ghassan Kanafani and Walid Daqqa, to understand the following questions: how did zionism marshall support despite openly stating its racist and genocidal intentions in Palestine? Under what historical conditions did zionist propaganda emerge, and how does it function? What strategies does zionism use to undermine Palestinian resistance? Why is it important for the Palestine movement to continue to investigate zionism? Studying the responses of Palestinian revolutionaries to these questions, we can cultivate an analysis of zionism capable of guiding political action against it.
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