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Prospects for Peace and Justice in Israel & Palestine
December 9, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm EST
Boston Review and Standing Together—one of the largest grassroots people’s movements in Israel working to bring together Jews and Arabs—welcome Sally Abed, Noam Chomsky, Alon-lee Green, Congressman Jim McGovern and Dr. James Zogby, President of the Arab-American Institute, for a panel discussion on the prospects for peace and justice in Israel and Palestine. This event will be moderated by Omar Dahi.
Panelists:
- Noam Chomsky is an educator and linguist. He joined the University of Arizona in fall 2017, after several decades at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Jim McGovern is a member of the U.S. House, representing Massachusetts’ second Congressional District.
- Omar Dahi is an associate professor of economics at Hampshire College and research associate at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
- Alon-lee Green is one of the founding members of Standing Together, an elected member of the national leadership, and is currently acting as the national co-director, alongside Rula Daood.
- Sally Abed is a member of the elected national leadership and currently acting as the resource development and relations coordinator at Standing Together.
- Dr. James Zogby is the founder and president of the Arab American Institute (AAI), a Washington, D.C.-based organization which serves as the political and policy research arm of the Arab American community.
Register here.
Sponsors: PERI Institute (U Mass. Amherst), Boston Review and Standing Together.
Tags: immigrant refugee justice, peace education, resist militarism