[van-announce] March 1: The Case Against “Israel”: Dr. As’ad AbuKhalil

[Charlotte Kates]

*The Case Against “Israel”: Dr. As’ad AbuKhalil*
*Friday, March 1, 2013*
*6 PM*
*University of British Columbia – Room TBA*
*Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/549888448362626/*
*Part of Israeli Apartheid Week 2013 - Sponsored by Solidarity for
Palestinian Human Rights-UBC (SPHR-UBC)*

[image: abukhalil]SPHR-UBC would like to recognize that this event and all
their activities take place on the unceded territory of the Musqueam
people. SPHR-UBC unequivocally stands in solidarity with the Musqueam
people and all their supporters in the Idle No More movement.

Israel was created unilaterally in 1948 as a result of the ethnic cleansing
of over 750,000 Palestinians. This occupation maintained and supported by
Western powers continues until today, and now more than 8 million
Palestinians live outside Palestine. All those who stayed either live as
second class citizens inside 1948 Palestine, or as an occupied people in
the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The purpose of this event is to challenge
the creation of this Zionist entity, break the silence and inform students
and all humans of conscious about the legal and moral implications of
supporting this illegal Apartheid state.

Does the apartheid state have a right to exist? Did it ethnically cleanse
750,000 Palestinians and destroy over 500 villages or is this just a
Palestinian myth? Is it the only “true” democracy in the Middle East or is
it a settler-colonial Apartheid state? And why does this Zionist entity
have to maintain its aggression and occupation of Palestine? Is this
structure of systemic and systematic colonialism, oppression and occupation
of stolen land viable or is it doomed to failure?

These, among many other questions, will be addressed by Dr. As’ad Abu
Khalil, a Lebanese American Professor of Political Science at California
State University and the man responsible for the Angry Arab News Agency
blog. The event titled “The Case Against ‘Israel’” will shed light on very
important questions facing Palestinians and their supporters.

Join Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) at the University of
British Columbia at an intriguing and thought-provoking discussion.

Please register your free ticket at :

http://www.eventbrite.ca/event/5490899428?ref=elink

For more information send an email to sphr.ubc at gmail.com

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Charlotte L. Kates     charlotte.kates at gmail.com