“Know Occupation: Israel/Palestine” week will begin with an art exhibition of political cartoons by an Israeli and a Palestinian artist on the Ithaca Commons on Sunday, March 26, and will continue with a series of films and speakers at Ithaca College about the consequences of military occupation for Israelis and Palestinians. The “Know Occupation” events, which have been organized the IC Students for a Just Peace, are free and open to the public.
The scheduled events follow:
• Sunday, March 26, Political Cartoons Exhibition on the Commons, Across from Unique World, 6:00 to 9:00 p.m., features the works of Loui Jameel, a Palestinian student at al-Quds University in the West Bank, and Amitai Sandy, an Israeli artist in Tel Aviv. Refreshments and music provided.
• Monday, March 27, “Home Demolitions,” 7:00 p.m., Textor 101, Ithaca College, presented by Daniel McCarey, IC senior, who participated in a human rights summer work camp organized by the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions.
• Tuesday, March 28, “Breaking the Silence” movie and presentation by Tamir Sorek, an Israeli who has refused to serve in the Israeli Defense Forces in the Palestinian territories, Textor 102, Ithaca College, 7:00 p.m. Tamir, currently an adjunct assistant professor in the sociology department at Cornell University, studies the processes in which ethnic and national identities are produced, re-produced, and dissolved.
• Wednesday, March 29, “Arna’s Children” movie and discussion with IC Politics professor Beth Harris, Textor 102, Ithaca College, 7:00 p.m. The movie, written and directed by Danniel Danniel and Juliano Mer Khamis, tells the story of a children’s theater group that was established by Juliano’s mother, an Israeli, in the Palestinian Jenin refugee camp. Juliano returns to Jenin during the Second Intifada to film what happened to the children who had participated in his mother’s theater project.
• Thursday, March 30, “The Separation Wall,” Williams 323, Ithaca College, 7:00 p.m., presented by Haley Singer and Nicole Brierre, seniors at Ithaca College, who visited the West Bank and Israel over their winter break on a delegation with the Faculty for Israeli Palestinian Peace.
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