Resolving the Israel-Palestine Conflict: What we can learn from Gandhi

DATE: Thursday, 20 August 2009
TIME: 5-7pm
VENUE: Shepstone 1, UKZN Howard College

All welcome! CCS contacts for transport: Helen Poonen - 260 3195, Email: poonenh@ukzn.ac.za

SPEAKER: Prof Norman Finkelstein

Norman G. Finkelstein received his doctorate in 1988 from the Department of Politics at Princeton University. For many years he taught political theory and the Israel-Palestine conflict. He is currently an independent scholar, following an attack by Zionists which cost his job at DePaul University in Chicago. Finkelstein is the author of five books which have been translated into more than 40 foreign editions: Beyond Chutzpah: On the misuse of anti-Semitism and the abuse of history; The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering; Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict; A Nation on Trial: The Goldhagen thesis and historical truth (with Ruth Bettina Birn); The Rise and Fall of Palestine: A personal account of the intifada years. He has just completed a new book entitled A Farewell to Israel: The coming break-up of American Zionism, to be published in 2009.

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