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The Afro-Middle East Centre |
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Pretoria * Johannesburg * Cape Town |
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University
of Pretoria
(Co-hosted by the Afro-Middle
East centre and the Department
of Political Sciences)
Title:
Apartheid or democracy? The
Palestinian experience in Israel
Date:
Monday, 16 April 2012
Time:
10h30 – 12h00
Venue:
1-56, Graduate Centre, Hatfield
Campus, UP |
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(Hosted by UCT Palestine
Solidarity Forum & Open
Shuhada Street)
Title:
Can a state be Jewish and
democratic? Perspectives
from a Palestinian Member of
the Israeli parliament
A panel discussion with:
Haneen Zoabi (MK), Prof. Ben
Turok (MP), & Judge Dennis
Davis
Date:
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Venue:
Metropolitan Methodist
Church, corner of Burg and
Longmarket street,
Greenmarket square, Cape
Town
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University
of the
Witwatersrand –
Wolpe Dialogue
(Co-hosted by the
Afro-Middle East centre, the
Department of Sociology &
the Harold Wolpe Memorial
Trust)
Title:
Palestinians in Israel:
From oppressed national
minority to catalysts for
change
Date:
Thursday, 19 April 2012
Venue:
Southwest Engineering
Building, ground floor, room
10, Wits University
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Ahmed Kathrada Foundation -
Johannesburg
(Co-hosted by the
Afro-Middle East centre and
the Ahmed Kathrada
Foundation)
Title:
Are some parliamentarians
more equal than others? The
experience of a Palestinian
Member of Israel's
Parliament
Date:
Friday, 20 April 2012
Venue:
Sci-Bono Auditorium,
Newtown, Johannesburg
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Haneen Zoabi is a
Palestinian citizen of
Israel and a member of the
Israeli Knesset
(parliament). She is a
leading voice for the rights
of Palestinians in Israel
who, despite holding Israeli
citizenship, are subjected
to a myriad of
discriminatory policies and
practices. Ms. Zoabi has
called Israel ‘inherently
racist’ and has challenged
the notion of it being a
democracy. In 2010 she
participated in the
'Freedom Flotilla' on board
the MV Mavi Marmara which
was attacked by Israeli
Defense Force commandos and,
more recently, she
participated in the Russell
Tribunal on Palestine in
Cape Town. Ms. Zoabi is
under increasing attack for
her outspoken position and
was stripped of her
parliamentary privileges for
taking part in the flotilla.
After her testimony at the
Russell Tribunal - where she
accused Israel of targeting
dissenting voices - some
fellow Knesset members
attempted to have her
stripped of her citizenship.
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