War on Gaza:  The Crucial Role of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in the US

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Please share with your contacts.This is an opportunity to attend a presentation by 

Dr. Philip FarahWar on Gaza:  The Crucial Role of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in the US 
Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice
202 Harvard SE 
March 22, 2024 at 7 pm 

Philip Farah was born four years after the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, a moment known as the Nakba to Palestinians around the world. He was raised in East Jerusalem, Jordan. The Farah family became part of the Palestinian Diaspora when they were barred from returning to their home in Israel. In 1976, he was arrested, tortured, and spent two months in an Israeli prison without a public trial. He immigrated to the US at the age of 27.

Philip holds a doctoral degree in environmental economics from UNM and did his undergraduate work at the American University of Beirut. He has taught in Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank. He is a founding member of the Palestinian Christian Alliance for Peace (2012) and a member of the Virginia Coalition for Human Rights. He has spoken across the United States and on NPR after the bombing of St Porphyrios Church in Gaza where he has extended family. He recently retired after a 35-year career as an economist in Washington, DC. 

Please bring dates to share in honor of those in Gaza celebrating Ramadan.

Co-Sponsors –
Southwest Coalition for Palestine
Jewish Voice for Peace—Abq

AMERICA’S MILITARY COLONY: A Wall of Defense Against Barbarism?

Information, Opinion

By Alan Wagman

Although it may seem puzzling why the United States supports and provides cover for Israel’s most outrageously authoritarian, lawless, and even brutal actions, the reason is hiding in plain sight. It is not, as many speculate, primarily because of AIPAC. It is because Israel is a military colony of the United States.

From its inception, Zionism viewed a Jewish state as the handmaiden of colonialism. The founder of the Zionist movement, Theodor Herzl, described his proposed Jewish state in his 1896 book, Der Judenstaat (“The Jewish State”) as “ a wall of defense for Europe in Asia, and outpost of civilization against barbarism.” (Astute readers will find echoes of this racism in Netanyahu’s recent justifications for Israel’s conduct in Gaza; one can decide for oneself if the echo is intentional.

Some argue that Zionism was not a colonial project because Jews had lived in Palestine for thousands of years. This ignores the fact that the Jews who had been living in Palestine for the nearly two thousand years prior to the European Zionist intrusion into Palestine often were at least as loyal to their Palestinian identity as to the incoming Zionist colonizers.

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