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When

25/10/2014    
9:45 am - 5:00 pm

Where

Burslem School of Art
Queen Street, Burslem, Stoke on Trent, ST6 3EG
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Speakers

Professor Haim Bresheeth: Israel’s South Africa Moment

Haim Bresheeth is filmmaker and film studies scholar, now concentrating on the Palestinian conflict, and completing a book on the formative history of Zionism. He is a Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University.

Tom Anderson: The BDS Campaign Tom is a researcher for Corporate Watch and the co-author of Targeting Israeli Apartheid: a boycott, divestment and sanctions handbook. He has spent time in Gaza and the West Bank carrying out research to support the BDS movement.

Musheir al Farra: Gaza Originally from Khan Younis, a town in the south of the Gaza Strip, Musheir is a political and human rights activist, author of Gaza: When the sky rained white fire (2012) and Chair of the Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

Dr Martin Kemp: History repeats itself – How dehumanisation and defences against guilt silence the West’s moral response to Israel’s occupation of Palestine Martin is a psychoanalyst, researcher and leading member of the Steering Group of the UK-Palestine Mental Health Network.

Mohammed Mukhaimar and Angela Glendenning will report on the progress and achievements of Sumud Palestine.

 

Workshops

Sumud Palestine: Sajid Hashmi; Working with grass root organisations in Palestine: Musheir al-Farra; The New Anti-Semitism: Haim Bresheeth;

  1. BDS Campaign: Tom Anderson; The Kairos Declaration – A cry for justice and the UK response: The Revd. Nichola Jones.

 

Cost: £10 adults; £5 students; Unwaged: apply. Lunch included.

Further information,contact:

Angela Glendenning, 32 Dartmouth Avenue, Newcastle, Staffs ST5 3NY

E: [email protected]    T: 01782-616368

www.sumudpalestine.co.uk

http://sumudpalestine.org.uk/events/sumud-conference-2014