ISRAEL-PALESTINE FILM & LECTURE SERIES
September/October 2007
The Committee for Peace in Israel/Palestine and East End Women in Black are pleased to present a unique Israeli view of the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Films and an important talk by Jeff Halper, Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions will be presented at the Unitarian Universalist Meeting House in Bridgehampton over the next month.
Dr. Jeff Halper will present his talk "Peace or Apartheid, Indeed" on Thursday, October 4 at 7pm.
He will outline the nature of the present occupation which Israel intends to be permanent, explaining how a "Matrix of Control" is used to isolate Palestinians from their land, from each other and from Israelis. Halper promises also to talk "about where we are at this moment, teetering on the edge of apartheid" and why he believes "that a two-state solution permitting a truly sovereign and VIABLE Palestinian state has been eliminated by Israel's settlement enterprise" He will put forward a positive solution and invite discussion from the audience.
The films are:
Monday, Sept 24, 7pm – Arna's Children.
Juliano Mer Khamis' documentary on his mother, Arna, an activist against the Israeli occupation who founded an alternative education system for Palestinian children, The film is set in the Jenin Refugee Camp on the occupied West Bank. Kathy Engel of East End Women in Black will lead a discussion following the film.
Monday October 8, 7pm - "Knowledge is the Beginning" a film with musician Daniel Barenboim and the late Palestinian-American academic and writer Edward Said. The film focuses on the commitment to peace and harmony by the world-renowned conductor and pianist, Daniel Barenboim. Mr. Barenboim regularly speaks out for peace and against the Israeli Occupation of Palestinian lands.
Monday October 15, 7pm "Wall" by Simone Bitton (France)
Wall (Mur) is a cinematic meditation on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in which the filmmaker blurs the lines of hatred by asserting her double identity as Jew and Arab. In an original documentary approach, the film follows the separation fence that is destroying one of the most historically significant landscapes in the world, while imprisoning one people and enclosing the other.
Special Presentations:
Monday October 29, 7pm : Two Presentations on Israel-PalestineMulti-media presentation: Facing the Wall by artist and psychologist Hazel Kahan, Ph.D. Dr. Kahan will explore how art is used as a form of resistance to the occupation of Palestine on the separation barrier, Israel's illegal 400-mile structure that includes a 25-foot-high wall in the occupied Palestinian territories.
at the Unitarian Universalist South Fork Meetinghouse
