at Columbia University last month, where Laura moderated a debate sponsored by the Middle East Institute. Although the debaters had difficulty sticking to the topic, it was an interesting and heated exchange, revealing the barriers not only to peace in Israel & Palestine, but to even discussing the topic. We bring you some of the footage of the night's event.
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Boycott Israel? With Omar Barghouti and George Fletcher
Earlier this year, we had a discussion in studio about the strategies of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel (BDS) in pursuit of a just peace in the Middle East. BDS was used successfully against South Africa under apartheid, and the call for a similar campaign against Israel stems back to at least 2005. But is it a productive strategy, or will it do more harm than good?
Those were the questions posed to Omar Barghouti, Palestinian human rights activist and founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and of the Palestinian Civil Society Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. and George Fletcher, Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia Law School and author of Rethinking Criminal Law, at Columbia University last month, where Laura moderated a debate sponsored by the Middle East Institute. Although the debaters had difficulty sticking to the topic, it was an interesting and heated exchange, revealing the barriers not only to peace in Israel & Palestine, but to even discussing the topic. We bring you some of the footage of the night's event.
at Columbia University last month, where Laura moderated a debate sponsored by the Middle East Institute. Although the debaters had difficulty sticking to the topic, it was an interesting and heated exchange, revealing the barriers not only to peace in Israel & Palestine, but to even discussing the topic. We bring you some of the footage of the night's event.
Who is this guy Fletcher? Is he actually on a paid faculty position at John Jay? CUNY? Does he have tenure? He needs to examine the inherent racism between the Ashkenazi European elite who have always run the Israeli state in the Mandate and ever since, and the Sephardim from North African and Arab countries who have always been treated as second-class citizens in Israel. He should also look into the deplorable social situation for Gentile offspring of Russian immigrants to Israel, who live in a terrible disenfranchised outcast state who are undesirable for marriage, Army service and many other social conventions in Israel. Many of them live in addiction. Fletcher should be on notice at CUNY for embarrassing the system on TV like this!
By AlbyFlugzeug on November 26th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Oh sorry Cardozo and Columbia.
By AlbyFlugzeug on November 26th, 2009 at 2:12 pm