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Book Launch: Israeli Apartheid - A Beginner's Guide (Ben White launches new book w/ David Norris)

category dublin | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice author Thursday March 18, 2010 10:41author by Kev - IPSC

Invitation to the Irish Launch of
Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide by Ben White
Thursday 25th March, 6.45pm,
Robert Emmet Theatre, Arts Block, Trinity College Dublin
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Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide distills the work of academics and experts into a highly readable text. This is the book to read if you want to understand the root of the conflict and how apartheid applies to the situation in Palestine.

In an evening chaired by Senator David Norris, author Ben White will discuss his new book that examines the origins of Israeli Apartheid and how it affects the daily lives of Palestinians. The systematic oppression of Palestinians living under Israeli Apartheid applies to both Palestinians living in Israel and those living in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The 'matrix of control' includes illegal Israeli colonial settlements, settler-only roads, checkpoints and closure, military bases, no-go zones, water theft, the Wall, East Jerusalem, detention and torture.

'The Crime of Apartheid''

'Inhuman acts committed for the purpose of establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group of persons over any other racial group of persons and systematically oppressing them.' - Article II, International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid, UN General Assembly Resolution 3068, 1973

'Praise for the book:'

"This book deals rationally and cogently with a topic that almost always generates considerable heat even just with book titles. The reader may not agree with everything that White asserts but it is a highly commendable effort to throw light on a fraught subject." - Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

"This is a very honest, clear and powerful book bringing us face to face with the reality of what Israel has done and is doing to the Palestinians. It would be convenient to ignore it. It would be convenient to assume Ben has got it wrong - that it's not quite that bad. Sadly it is and we ignore it at everyone's peril." - Garth Hewitt, Canon of St. George's Cathedral, Jerusalem

'About the author'

Ben White is a journalist and writer specialising in Palestine/Israel. He also writes on the broader Middle East, Islam and Christianity, and the 'war on terror'. His articles have appeared in a variety of international publications, including the The Guardian, New Statesman, Electronic Intifada and Christian Science Monitor.

For more information about Ben White and this book, please see the book's official website: http://israeliapartheidguide.com/

Related Link: http://www.ipsc.ie

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author by Anthonypublication date Fri Mar 26, 2010 14:41author address author phone

Fair play to the IPSC for organising an educational night that was a bit of a laugh. Norris for the comedy and White for the facts. Good stuff.

Cheers,
Tony.

South African Christian response to the Palestinian Kairos Document
author by HBpublication date Tue Apr 06, 2010 17:35author address author phone

Responding to the Kairos Palestine document, they recall the words of Nelson Mandela who said:
“our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians”
Conveying South African solidarity “with your cause”, they express conviction that “justice will come to the Holy Land, as it came to us here in the southernmost part of Africa”.
Drawing on their own experiences, they define apartheid as “the denial of the humanity of one human being by another or the idea that there is a superior and an inferior human being”. Yet, they observe, the practical manifestations of Israeli apartheid are in many ways worse than South African apartheid ever was.

Endorsing the Kairos Palestine view that the occupation is a sin and evil, they strike a note of hope that “Jesus must be weeping at the injustice that he sees in Jerusalem and we are convinced that God is already intervening and will continue to intervene to establish his justice in the Holy Land”.

Rejecting Christian Zionism and Christian theologies that justify the Occupation as illegitimate’ and heretical, they commend the Kairos Palestine initiators for longing that those responsible for the occupation regain their God-given humanity.

Pledging to develop solidarity, they endorse non-violent resistance through the Kairos Palestine call for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement “as a way to put maximum non-violent pressure on Israel to lift the boot of oppression from the neck of the Palestinians”.

Listing what “we can learn from you”, they ask Palestinians to be prepared to consider what process of healing would be needed in the Holy Land once a political solution has been reached. Celebrating this year the 25th anniversary of the South African Kairos Document, they invite Palestinians to share their journey. .. .

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author by hbpublication date Tue Apr 06, 2010 17:36author address author phone

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