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SUMMARY:Current Realities and Prospects for Palestine-Israel
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Palestinian Human Rights Activist ISSA AMRO in discussion with PETER BEINART\nSuggested donation at the door of $20 for Youth Against Settlements in Hebron \nIssa Amro is a human rights defender based in Hebron city\, West Bank. The co-founder of the direct action group Youth Against Settlements and the executive director of Working for Peace and Justice: Friends of Hebron\, Amro is popularly referred to as the ‘Palestinian Gandhi. He has been widely recognized for his work encouraging peaceful resistance against the Israeli occupation for which he has been imprisoned scores of times. From 2016-2021 he was on trial in Israeli military court on 18 charges deemed ‘baseless’ by Amnesty International. In 2024 Amro and Youth Against Settlements received the Right Livelihood Award\, known as the ‘alternative Nobel Prize.’ He has been nominated for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. \nPeter Beinart is professor of journalism and political science at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism in the City University of New York\, editor-at-large of Jewish Currents and a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times. He is also a nonresident fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace. His books include The Crisis of Zionism and Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza – a Reckoning. (Copies will be available). \nSponsored by the Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine \nCo-sponsored by 1for3.org\, Alliance for a Secular & Democratic South Asia\, Boston Workers Circle\, Ceasefire MV/Islanders for Palestine\, Community Encampments for Palestine\, Gralta Foundation\, HRA:PI/CD3\, Lexington for Palestine\, Jewish Voice for Peace – Boston\, Massachusetts Peace Action\, National Lawyers Guild- MA Chapter\, Northshore for Palestine\, Olive Branch for Fair Trade Inc.\, Palestinian House of New England\, Peace & Common Security Working Group of Watertown Citizens\, Peace & Justice Committee of Friends Meeting\, Sawa\, UUME- MA.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/current-realities-and-prospects-for-palestine-israel/
LOCATION:First Parish Cambridge (Meeting House)\, 1446 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138
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