Dear Colleagues and Friends,
As many of you will already have noted, next week Friday, 26 April 2013, I have the privilege to moderate a discussion at the ISS in The Hague between two prominent cultural figures and human rights advocates.
Omar Barghouti is an independent Palestinian researcher, commentator and human rights activist. He is a founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (www.pacbi.org) and the Palestinian Civil Society Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (http://www.bdsmovement.net) campaign against Israel, which has been endorsed by a number of prominent cultural figures, including Desmond Tutu, Alice Walker, Judith Butler and Roger Waters. He holds degrees from Columbia University, NY and Tel Aviv University. He is also a freelance dance choreographer and trainer. He is the author of Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights (Haymarket, 2011).
Bart Luirink was born and raised in Amsterdam. During the 1970s and 80s he worked as an editor at the newspaper Truth and as action coordinator at the Anti-Apartheid Movement of the Netherlands (AABN). In 1993 he moved to Johannesburg, where he was worked as a correspondent for numerous news agencies. Since 2004, he has served as editor of ZAM Africa Magazine (http://www.zammagazine.com), a platform for independent talent in Africa. He is also chair of Africa in the Picture, (www.africainthepicture.nl) a multimedia platform of African film. He is the author of several books, including Puur Goud: Andere Verhalen Uit Zuid Afrika, transl. “Pure Gold: Other Stories From South Africa” (Augustus, 2010).
Barghouti and Luirink will be discussing the relevance of claimed parallels with South Africa and the civic call for a cultural (and academic) boycott of Israel.
This is a topic that has been gaining considerable attention, including statements by the Scottish writer Iain Banks (http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/apr/05/iain-banks-cultural-boycott-israel) and by Israeli Professor of History at Exeter University, Ilan Pappe (in Dutch: http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2844/Archief/archief/article/detail/913353/2008/05/10/lsquo-Ik-bepleit-een-culturele-boycot-van-Israel-rsquo.dhtml).
More information on this event is available here: http://www.iss.nl/news_events/iss_news/detail/article/47654-is-a-cultural-boycott-of-israel-justified/
Date: 26 April 2013, 16:15 – 18:00
Location: ISS, Kortenaerkade 12, Den Haag (Aula)
This event is fully open to the public, but to ensure there is adequate space in the Aula, we kindly ask that you register here: http://www.iss.nl/forms/is_a_cultural_boycott_of_israel_justified/
We sincerely hope you are able to attend and encourage you to invite others as well to join this special event.
Kind regards,
Jeff Handmaker.
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Dr. Jeff Handmaker
Senior lecturer in law, human rights and development
International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of
Erasmus University – www.iss.nl/handmaker
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