Boston Free Palestine

Thursday, November 5, 2009
Time: 5:00-7:00 pm
Location: Levin Ballroom, Usdan Student Center (overflow seating in Schwartz Auditorium)

The head of a controversial United Nations fact-finding mission to the Gaza Strip and a former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations will discuss assertions that Israel and Palestinian fighters committed war crimes during three weeks of fighting in the Middle East last winter.

Justice Richard Goldstone, head of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, and chair of the Ethics Center’s Advisory Board, and Dore Gold, former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, will exchange views on the report’s findings. The report said there is evidence of war crimes on both sides and that the Israelis made disproportionate use of force.

Read the full Brandeis University press release and the Boston Globe article about the event. The website of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict includes links to the full report. The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs published its “Initial Response to Report of the Fact Finding Mission on Gaza Established Pursuant to Resolution S-9/1 of the Human Rights Council” on September 24, 2009.

The Ethics Center’s recent “Ethical Inquiry” article “Proportionality in the Context of Armed Conflict” includes some historical and legal context for the issue of proportionality and links to additional responses to the Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict.

Seating is first come, first served. The event will be streamed live on the Brandeis website and simulcast in the Schwartz Auditorium. Priority for questions will be given to Brandeis students. Doors open at 4:30 pm. Parking is available in the Tower Lot. For directions and a campus map, click here.

This event is hosted by the Ethics Center and the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies. For more information, please contact the Ethics Center at 781-736-8577 or by email at ethics@brandeis.edu or Charles Radin in the Office of Communications at 781-736-4210 or by email at radin@brandeis.edu.

Dame Pa Matala

The Consulate General of Venezuela presents:
a concert in solidarity with Palestine & Honduras
featuring:

Dame Pa Matala
revolutionary hip hop and folk music
and from Palestine: Sabreena Da Witch
with
The Foundation Movement,
Natural Bliss & los trovadores por Honduras

FREE!

FRIDAY OCTOBER 2nd 8 PM
Kresge Auditorium
77 Mass Ave
Cambridge MA
more info: 781 724 0752

cosponsored by: Boston Boycott Divestment Sanctions
Proyecto Hondureño
and MLK Bolivarian Circle

El Consulado General de Venezuela en Boston presenta
un concierto en solidaridad con el pueblo de Palestina y de Honduras

Dame pa Matala
hip hop y musica folklórica revolucionaria
con
Sabreena da Witch (desde Palestina)
y
The Foundation Movement, Natural Bliss y Los Trovadores por Honduras
Entrada Gratis!!!

VIERNES 2 de Octubre
Kresge Auditorio
77 Mass Ave
Cambridge, MA
mas información: 781 724 0752

con el apoyo de
Boston Boycott Sanctions and Divestment
Proyecto Hondureño
y MLK Bolivarian Circle

Buy tickets and see more movie details here

http://bostonpalestine.bside.com/2009/films

Boston Palestine Film Festival is back for a third year! The Boston Palestine Film Festival has an incredible expanded line-up for our third annual Festival, which runs October 16 - November 1, 2009

Official website: http://www.bostonpalestinefilmfest.org/

Highlights of BPFF 2009:

We’re bringing Rashid Masharawi and his new feature film Laila’s Birthday (Eid Milad Laila) (2008), starring Mohammed Bakri (Since You Left, Private, Jenin Jenin). Mr. Masharawi will be here to answer your questions during a retrospective of his career, including his famous films Curfew (1993), which won the UNESCO prize in Cannes in 1994 and other awards, and Ticket to Jerusalem (2002), which also won numerous awards.

Najwa Najjar will also be with us to present her debut feature film, Pomegranates and Myrrh (al-Murr w’al-Rumman), a love story about the struggles of a young Palestinian dancer whose new husband is imprisoned for refusing to give up his land to settlers. The film, starring Hiam Abbas (Paradise Now, The Syrian Bride), Ali Suleiman and Yasmine Al Massri, recently premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

We’re bringing some rare, older films about Palestine too like The Dupes (1971), which is a compelling tale based on Ghassan Kanafani’s acclaimed novella, Men in the Sun (1962).

And, of course, we have the latest films coming out of Gaza as well as a lot of very interesting new documentaries and experimental films about life in Palestine.

As a special sneak preview to our festival, on September 3rd, we’ll be screening one of the first Palestinian films to receive a nationwide theater distribution in the US. It’s called Amreeka, and it’s a debut feature film from American-Palestinian filmmaker Cherien Dabis. Through a special arrangement with the distributors, we’re bringing it to our audiences first (at the MFA) before it opens in Boston theaters in mid-September.

We thank you for your ongoing support, and we look forward to hearing from you.

BPFF Organizing Committee: Salma Abu Ayyash, Emna Ben Salem, Maha Chourafa, Christine Giraud, Katherine Hanna and Kate Rouhana