{news} TONIGHT, MONDAY, 7:30, CTGP-SPONSORED TALK BY ISRAELI JOURNALIST MICHEL WARCHAWSKI AT CCSU

[Justine McCabe]

Dear all, 

Please try to attend this CTGP-endorsed event TONIGHT at Central CT STATE U. at 7:30.  

Directions below.  PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD.



Justine McCabe

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Hear Michel Warshawski

 

The renowned Israeli Author of On the Border & Toward an Open Tomb: The Crisis of Israeli Society* will give a major talk.

April 18 at 7:30 p.m.

Marcus White Hall at CCSU

 

Sponsored by: Middle East Crisis Committee, Al Awda CT, Green Party CT, If Americans Knew, & the New London-based Council for National Interest.  For more info: mail at TheStruggle.org/203-934-2761

 

Since the breakdown of the Oslo peace process in 2000 and the beginning of the second Intifada, conflict has escalated in Israel/Palestine and come to seem irreversible. The overwhelming power of the Israeli military has been unleashed against a largely defenseless population in the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza, driving Palestinians to despair and to desperate measures of retaliation. Michel Warschawski, has for many decades been active in building alliances of Jews and Palestinians to oppose the Israeli occupation. In this book, however, he focuses especially on the effects of the occupation on the occupiers-that is, on Israeli society-rather than its victims.

 

Warschawski describes the atrocities of the occupation-from the sack of Ramallah to the massacre in Jenin, the razing of houses and refugee camps, shooting at ambulances and hospitals, the use of Palestinian civilians as human shields-showing how each of these pushes back the boundaries of what was previously thinkable. He documents the resulting shifts in Israeli political thought,. Toward an Open Tomb seeks to explain the forces within Israeli society and culture that are leading to a self-defeating result.

 

 

*On the Border chronicles a radical political education in a time and place charged with idealism and danger. One of the most renowned figures of the Israeli left, Michel is known commonly by his nom de guerre Mikado. A Polish Frenchman and a rabbi's son, he went to Jerusalem as a young man to study the Talmud. Warschawski recounts how he became radicalized, and muses on the vibrancy of border cultures that welcome and engage with strangers-where languages exchange phrases and people trade foods.

 

Warschawski's involvement in radical politics led to inspiring alliances with Jews, Muslims, Christians, and Marxists. Yet as the border lines hardened and Mikado became a movement leader, he became targeted by the Shin Bet, Israel's notorious intelligence agents, who eventually arrested him. Incarcerated and interrogated for 20 days, Mikado gives his readers an insider's view of the psychological and political pressures that Shin Bet brought to bear, even on Jews, and never lets you forget the severity of treatment that his Palestinian colleagues faced.









  








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