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11/25 SF Labor TV On Labor, Zionism & Palestinians
Labor On The Job interviews Israeli university lecturer Ilan Pappe about his struggle
for equal rights in Israel and the boycott of Bar-Ilan and Haifa by the UK Association
of University Teachers for the harassment of him and his student.
for equal rights in Israel and the boycott of Bar-Ilan and Haifa by the UK Association
of University Teachers for the harassment of him and his student.
Labor On The Job On
Friday November 25, 2005 at 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
On San Francisco Comcast Channel 29
Presents:
One On One
Labor, Zionism and Palestinians
An Interview with Israeli University Lecturer Ilan Pappe
Ilan Pappe is a university lecturer at the department of Political Science at Haifa University and is
a long time activist for human and labor rights for Palestinians. He was supportive of a labor boycott of by the UK Association of University Teachers of Bar-Ilan and Haifa universities
in Israel for their harassment of himself and a graduate student for exposing a hidden massacre by Israeli troops at the Arab village of Al Tantura.
"Labor On The Job" is programmed the 2nd and 4th Friday of the month on San
Francisco Cable Channel 29 from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM "Labor On The Job" is
also the longest running labor cable show in the United States since 1983.
It is produced and programmed by the Labor Video Project in San Francisco
and is also programmed on Philadelphia and St. Louis cable systems.
The Labor Video Project also produces labor
documentaries and is part of the Union Producers and Programmers Network
(UPPNET) http://www.uppnet.org
Labor Video Project
P.O.Box 720027
San Francisco,CA 94172
Phone (415)282-1908 Fax (415)695-1369
lvpsf [at] labornet.org
Producing labor media since 1983
The distinguished Dr. Ilan Pappe is senior lecturer in the department of
Political Science at Haifa University and the Chair of the Emil Touma
Institute for Palestinian Studies in Haifa. He is also the Academic
Director of the Research Institute for Peace at Givat Haviva. He has
written extensively on the politics of the Middle East, and is
well-known for his revisionist interpretation of Israel's history and as a
critic of its policies towards the Palestinians.
Born in Haifa, Ilan Pappe concentrated on Middle Eastern studies in high
school and then served in intelligence in the Israeli army. He earned his
doctorate from Oxford University, where he studied international relations
and Middle Eastern studies. Pappe is one of the founders of the ''new
history'' in Israel, together with Benny Morris and Avi Shlaim, and is
considered the theoretician of this group, which re-examined the history
of the state's birth, relying on new documents discovered in the archives,
among other things.
In early 2002, Pappe was threatened with dismissal by Haifa University
because of his support for Teddy Katz, a Jewish graduate student at the
university whose dissertation had brought to public attention the massacre,
by Israeli forces in 1948, of a large portion of the population of the Arab
village of Al Tantura, on the coast south of Haifa. A petition in support of
Dr. Pappe, was signed by several thousand intellectuals from many countries
around the world, including many from within Israel. After the international
protest, the university withdrew the threatened dismissal proceedings.
''As a humanist my sympathy is with the victims. If I had written about
Jews in Europe, or African Americans under slavery or Jim Crow, I would be
accused of being pro-Jewish or pro-African. Since I am writing about modern
Palestine, I am accused of being pro-Palestinian. What amazes me is that
people who claim to be humanists that don't come to the same conclusions
as I do, people who don't conclude that Palestinians have been victims of
colonization and expulsion, people who don't have sympathy with them.''
--Ilan Pappe
Friday November 25, 2005 at 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
On San Francisco Comcast Channel 29
Presents:
One On One
Labor, Zionism and Palestinians
An Interview with Israeli University Lecturer Ilan Pappe
Ilan Pappe is a university lecturer at the department of Political Science at Haifa University and is
a long time activist for human and labor rights for Palestinians. He was supportive of a labor boycott of by the UK Association of University Teachers of Bar-Ilan and Haifa universities
in Israel for their harassment of himself and a graduate student for exposing a hidden massacre by Israeli troops at the Arab village of Al Tantura.
"Labor On The Job" is programmed the 2nd and 4th Friday of the month on San
Francisco Cable Channel 29 from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM "Labor On The Job" is
also the longest running labor cable show in the United States since 1983.
It is produced and programmed by the Labor Video Project in San Francisco
and is also programmed on Philadelphia and St. Louis cable systems.
The Labor Video Project also produces labor
documentaries and is part of the Union Producers and Programmers Network
(UPPNET) http://www.uppnet.org
Labor Video Project
P.O.Box 720027
San Francisco,CA 94172
Phone (415)282-1908 Fax (415)695-1369
lvpsf [at] labornet.org
Producing labor media since 1983
The distinguished Dr. Ilan Pappe is senior lecturer in the department of
Political Science at Haifa University and the Chair of the Emil Touma
Institute for Palestinian Studies in Haifa. He is also the Academic
Director of the Research Institute for Peace at Givat Haviva. He has
written extensively on the politics of the Middle East, and is
well-known for his revisionist interpretation of Israel's history and as a
critic of its policies towards the Palestinians.
Born in Haifa, Ilan Pappe concentrated on Middle Eastern studies in high
school and then served in intelligence in the Israeli army. He earned his
doctorate from Oxford University, where he studied international relations
and Middle Eastern studies. Pappe is one of the founders of the ''new
history'' in Israel, together with Benny Morris and Avi Shlaim, and is
considered the theoretician of this group, which re-examined the history
of the state's birth, relying on new documents discovered in the archives,
among other things.
In early 2002, Pappe was threatened with dismissal by Haifa University
because of his support for Teddy Katz, a Jewish graduate student at the
university whose dissertation had brought to public attention the massacre,
by Israeli forces in 1948, of a large portion of the population of the Arab
village of Al Tantura, on the coast south of Haifa. A petition in support of
Dr. Pappe, was signed by several thousand intellectuals from many countries
around the world, including many from within Israel. After the international
protest, the university withdrew the threatened dismissal proceedings.
''As a humanist my sympathy is with the victims. If I had written about
Jews in Europe, or African Americans under slavery or Jim Crow, I would be
accused of being pro-Jewish or pro-African. Since I am writing about modern
Palestine, I am accused of being pro-Palestinian. What amazes me is that
people who claim to be humanists that don't come to the same conclusions
as I do, people who don't conclude that Palestinians have been victims of
colonization and expulsion, people who don't have sympathy with them.''
--Ilan Pappe
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I like this guy.
Your website introduces my colleague and erstwhile friend Ilan Pappe as follows: "Bar-Ilan and Haifa universities
in Israel for their harassment of himself and a graduate student for exposing a hidden massacre by Israeli troops at the Arab village of Al Tantura." Ilan is a tenured member of the faculty at the University of Haifa and hardly harrassed. Despite repeated promises on his part, he has never been able to provide proof of the alleged massacre and Teddy Katz, the grad student in question, admitted that he had manipulated his sources to create a massacre out of thin air. You owe more to your readers and listeners than simply handing over as fact canned propaganda provided by Ilan, who will be the first to admit that it is narratives, not facts, which interest him.
in Israel for their harassment of himself and a graduate student for exposing a hidden massacre by Israeli troops at the Arab village of Al Tantura." Ilan is a tenured member of the faculty at the University of Haifa and hardly harrassed. Despite repeated promises on his part, he has never been able to provide proof of the alleged massacre and Teddy Katz, the grad student in question, admitted that he had manipulated his sources to create a massacre out of thin air. You owe more to your readers and listeners than simply handing over as fact canned propaganda provided by Ilan, who will be the first to admit that it is narratives, not facts, which interest him.
Pappe is a pathetic traitor!
<<<<<<<A petition in support of Dr. Pappe, was signed by several thousand intellectuals from many countries around the world, including many from within Israel. After the international protest, the university withdrew the threatened dismissal proceedings>>>>>>
Several thousand intellectuals from….around the world. Amazing is it not? Turns out to be one of the most widely respected intellectuals on the globe by that measure. It is no wonder that right wingers in Israel would label Pappe as toxic waste. Pappe’s crime is telling the truth. That another person who calls himself a “professor” would libel Pappe is telling to say the least. The reason for this is clear – this “professor” as he labels himself, stands most likely for solving the “demographic problem.” That is, the growing “concern” the Zionists have with the Palestinian population growth and how that measures up to the Israeli Jewish one.
The University of Haifa is generally considered to be a right wing organization, where, in fact, after the failed boycott attempt, an “important” meeting on the demographic problem was then held. No doubt there was renewed talk about the all important issue of transfer of the Arab population.
In my experience here at IndyBay, the Haifa boycott was issue number one for several weeks. Pappe in fact was “the only” professor that stood for the boycott because he realizes the degradation of Israeli society caused by the “occupation” as defined by by the International Court of Justice for 38 years straight. Certainly the ICF is an organization that is also toxic waste to the right wingers in Israel.
I was privileged to attend Pappe’s lecture at the 1st Congregational Church in Oakland not long ago. Pappe’s integrity and brilliance were displayed there for all to experience first hand. On sale was his “A History of Modern Palestine (One Land, Two Peoples) published through Cambridge University Press. I have read the book and find it extremely informative and, to say the least, one of the most important books written about both Palestinian and Zionist society in Israel dating back to the late 1800s.
Let me clue the audience on our self proclaimed professor’s comments. The fact that this lecture was given to a labor group is *very* telling. Our professor Menachem is no doubt *extremely* concerned about the unvarnished facts being told to labor groups, especially in the United States. As we all know here, the Israel divestment and boycott movements are picking up steam as Israelis like Professor Pappe openly inform labor of the real history of Palestine. To date, the divestment initiatives have been confined to Christian religious groups, but this is the way the South African boycotts began against a similar apartheid system. When that divestment initiative spreads surely and gradually to the huge labor groups with their massive investment portfolios in the U.S. and then to other non-religious based organizations, Israel will have hell to pay.
Hence the vicious attacks by our right wing racist “professor.”
Several thousand intellectuals from….around the world. Amazing is it not? Turns out to be one of the most widely respected intellectuals on the globe by that measure. It is no wonder that right wingers in Israel would label Pappe as toxic waste. Pappe’s crime is telling the truth. That another person who calls himself a “professor” would libel Pappe is telling to say the least. The reason for this is clear – this “professor” as he labels himself, stands most likely for solving the “demographic problem.” That is, the growing “concern” the Zionists have with the Palestinian population growth and how that measures up to the Israeli Jewish one.
The University of Haifa is generally considered to be a right wing organization, where, in fact, after the failed boycott attempt, an “important” meeting on the demographic problem was then held. No doubt there was renewed talk about the all important issue of transfer of the Arab population.
In my experience here at IndyBay, the Haifa boycott was issue number one for several weeks. Pappe in fact was “the only” professor that stood for the boycott because he realizes the degradation of Israeli society caused by the “occupation” as defined by by the International Court of Justice for 38 years straight. Certainly the ICF is an organization that is also toxic waste to the right wingers in Israel.
I was privileged to attend Pappe’s lecture at the 1st Congregational Church in Oakland not long ago. Pappe’s integrity and brilliance were displayed there for all to experience first hand. On sale was his “A History of Modern Palestine (One Land, Two Peoples) published through Cambridge University Press. I have read the book and find it extremely informative and, to say the least, one of the most important books written about both Palestinian and Zionist society in Israel dating back to the late 1800s.
Let me clue the audience on our self proclaimed professor’s comments. The fact that this lecture was given to a labor group is *very* telling. Our professor Menachem is no doubt *extremely* concerned about the unvarnished facts being told to labor groups, especially in the United States. As we all know here, the Israel divestment and boycott movements are picking up steam as Israelis like Professor Pappe openly inform labor of the real history of Palestine. To date, the divestment initiatives have been confined to Christian religious groups, but this is the way the South African boycotts began against a similar apartheid system. When that divestment initiative spreads surely and gradually to the huge labor groups with their massive investment portfolios in the U.S. and then to other non-religious based organizations, Israel will have hell to pay.
Hence the vicious attacks by our right wing racist “professor.”
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