Join us at The Jerusalem Fund’s Palestine Center for a Lunchtime Lecture: “Vietnam Then, Palestine Now: U.S. Subversion of Liberation Movements” featuring historian and activist Robert Buzzanco (Professor Emeritus, University of Houston)

🗓️: Friday, June 13th, 2025
⏰: 12:00 pm (ET)
📍: Virtual & @ The Jerusalem Fund (2425 Virginia Ave NW, Washington DC)

The U.S. role in the genocide in Gaza is a well-established horror, but it is also another example of the way that American leaders have always suppressed liberation movements. In looking at today’s events with a historical context, especially with regard to the war and devastation of Vietnam, tells us a good deal about the way the U.S. views people’s movements abroad, how they form and evolve, and what the outcomes are.

About the Speaker: Robert Buzzanco is co-host of the Green and Red Podcast, professor emeritus of history at the University of Houston, and has been a visiting professor at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He is the author of several books, including the award-winning Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era (1996), which received the Stuart L. Bernath Book and Lecture Prizes, given by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Professor Buzzanco specializes in, writes about, and talks on the Vietnam War era, military-civilian relations, foreign policy, radical social movements, political economy, anti-imperialism, and other topics in U.S. history. He has been a lifelong Palestine solidarity activist.

This hybrid event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

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Presented in collaboration with the Green and Red Podcast.

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