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