Can You Get To Columbia Next Week?

If so, you might be interested in a very un-balanced panel discussion in the tradition of non-academic insitutions:

GAZA: ISRAEL'S WAR AND THE GOLDSTONE REPORT

RSVP:

This panel is dedicated to examining the reality and consequences of Israel's war and siege of Gaza. What do we know about Gaza 2008-2009 today after several investigations by various human rights organizations? Is the head of the UN fact-finding mission Justice Richard Goldstone right in arguing (as he did recently) that a 'reconsideration' of his UN report, which found evidence of war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity, is now in order?

Panelists:

Norman G. Finkelstein, author of This Time We Went Too Far: Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Invasion

Rashid Khalidi, author of The Iron Cage, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia, and Co-Director of CPS

Peter Weiss, Vice President, Center for Constitutional Rights

2 May 2011, 7:30 PM ~ 10:00 PM
Room 417, Altschul Auditorium, International Affairs Building, Columbia University
420 West 118th Street, NY, NY 10027

And don't do anything I would do there.


UPDATE

Look at this "scholarship" there (lower down on the page):

SPRING 2011


Spring 2011 Middle East W4053 (NEW COURSE)

THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT. 3 points.

Instructor: Salim Tamari

Spring 2011 Middle East G6225 (NEW COURSE)

BIOGRAPHY & SOCIAL HISTORY. 3 points.

Instructor: Salim Tamari

Spring 2011 Anthropology V3887 (NEW COURSE)

THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF PALESTINE. 3 points.

Instructor: Rhoda Kanaaneh

Spring 2011 English BC3149 (NEW COURSE)

CULTURES OF COLONIALISM: PALESTINE/ISRAEL (09734); 3 points

Instructor: Bashir Abu-Manneh

Tuesday & Thursday, 2:40-3:55 PM, Room TBA The significance of colonial encounter, statehood, and dispossession in Palestinian and Israeli cultures from 1948 to the present, examined in a range of cultural forms: poetry, political tracts, cinema, fiction, memoirs, and travel writing. Authors include: Darwish, Grossman, Habibi, Khalifeh, Khleifi, Kanafani, Oz, Shabtai, Shalev, and Yehoshua.

FALL 2010

Fall 2010 History G8716

POLTICS OF TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST; Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in the Middle East; 4 points

Instructor: Thomas Hill

W 2:10-4, 311 Fayerweather.

SPRING 2010

Spring 2010 History G9713

THE MODERN HIST OF PALESTINE; 4 points

Instructor: Rashid Khalidi

Tuesday 2:10pm-4:00pm 208 KNOX HALL

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