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Jewish American Relationship with Israel at Crossroads

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Partner:: New School
Location:: Tishman Auditorium
New York, NY
Event Date:: 10.06.12
Speakers:: Anna Baltzer,; Norman G. Finkelstein,; Adam Shatz
Tags:: israel; palestine; conflict; jewish; Issues; Struggle

Summary: Leading commentators on the Israel/Palestine conflict, together span three generations of struggle for a just peace in the Middle East. In this public forum, they discuss the possibility that increasing awareness of the conflict among the American Jewish community is creating a more critical stance towards Israel. Such a separation between traditional allies could give new impetus to resolving a conflict that has, for many years, seemed intractable.

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Anna Baltzer is a graduate of Columbia University, Fulbright scholar, and three-time volunteer with the International Women's Peace Service in the West Bank, where she documents human rights abuses and supports the nonviolent resistance movement to the occupation. She is the author of Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories.

Norman G. Finkelstein was educated at Princeton University and taught political theory and the Israel-Palestine conflict for many years. He is the author of nine books including Knowing Too Much: Why the Jewish American Romance With Israel Is Coming To an End; What Gandhi Says: About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage; This Time We Went Too Far: Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Invasion; and The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering.

Adam Shatz is a contributing editor at the London Review of Books. He has reported from Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon and Algeria. He is also the editor of an anthology, Prophets Outcast: A Century of Dissident Jewish Writing about Zionism and Israel (Nation Books).

Sponsored by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics and the Department of Humanities at The New School for Public Engagement and OR Books. 'http://www.newschool.edu/vlc