The Apartheid Paradigm in Palestine-Israel

THE APARTHEID PARADIGM IN PALESTINE-ISRAEL:

ISSUES OF JUSTICE AND EQUALITY

Desmond Tutu CONFERENCE SPONSORED BY FRIENDS OF SABEEL NORTH AMERICA HOSTED BY FRIENDS OF SABEEL NEW ENGLAND Noam Chomsky John Dugard OCTOBER 26 – 27, 2007 Naim Ateek OLD SOUTH CHURCH Diana Buttu 645 BOYLSTON ST BOSTON, MA Donald Wagner USA Jeff Halper

Anat Biletzki Noura Erekat

Farid Esack David Wildman

Phyllis Bennis Joan Martin

Nancy Murray

photo: Anne Paq/activestills.org What is Apartheid?

In 1973, the UN General Assembly adopted the international Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid, a crime against humanity. The word ‘apartheid’ means separation in Afrikaans, a language spoken in South Africa. ‘Apartheid’ is defined by the UN as “…a system of institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination for the purpose of establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group … over another … and systematically oppressing them…” by creating ghettos, confiscating land, banning freedom of movement, speech and mixed-marriage and through illegal arrest and detention.

Marcia Bushnell "Interrogation" oil/canvas

What is Hafrada?

The Hebrew word for separation has come to be used by Israeli policy makers to refer to the idea of creating deliberate divisions between Israelis and Palestinians. Israel's barrier carving through the Palestinian West Bank is a conspicuous example, planned to stretch more than 400 miles including the endless spans of 25-foot-high concrete wall still under construction. The structure is called a 'separation fence' in Hebrew. The expression 'unilateral disengagement' for Israel's actions, for example, in Gaza, is yet another way to frame the officially-sanctioned policy of apartheid. Marcia Bushnell "Run if You Can" oil/canvas

Cover photo: Anne Paq/activestills.org From 5.00 a.m. onwards, Palestinian workers in Bethlehem queue for hours to try to enter Jerusalem seeking work. Nov. 2006 2

TABLE OF CONTENTS AND T HUMBNAIL OF C ONFERENCE P ROCEEDINGS

Apartheid and Hafrada Defined...... 2 A Note from the Director...... 4 Exhibit Announcement and Contemplation...... 5 Conference Schedule...... 6-7

Friday Don Wagner Documentary Screenings Desmond Tutu Mahdi Bray Sara Roy Naim Ateek Keynote Diana Buttu John Dugard Jeff Halper Phyllis Bennis Saturday Worship Naim Ateek Anat Biletzki Farid Esack Joan Martin Noam Chomsky David Wildman Noura Erekat Nancy Murray Tom Shaw Desmond Tutu Keynote Rally on Copley Square

Biographical Sketches...... 8-11 List of Exhibitors...... 12 Sponsor & Supporter Acknowledgments...... 13-14 Advertisements...... 15-20 Notes pages...... 21-22 Rally Announcement and Contact Info...... 23 Quotable Notables (back cover) ...... 24

Photographs courtesy of Skip Schiel, teeksaphoto.org

photo: Simon Bitton

3 Two installations not to miss at this conference are Marcia Bushnell's stirring oil-on-canvas depictions of dispossession and military aggression and an exhibit prepared by the Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights (BCPR). The exhibit, “From Apartheid South Africa to Israel/Palestine: Making the Connections,” illustrates on 12 large panels how the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid (GA Reso lution 2068) applies to Israel's practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territo ries.

The Strangers' Pleasure Trip Mahmoud Darwish (Translated by Lena Jayyusi)

I know the house from the sprig of sage, the first window inclines towards the butterflies....blue...red.

I know the line of the clouds and at what well the village women will wait in the summer.

I know what the dove says when it lays its eggs across the Marcia Bushnell "Expelled" oil/canvas

barrel of the rifle. Marcia Bushnell: "These paintings depict the human suffering caused I know who opens the door to the jasmine bush as it both by war and the failure to see opens our dreams to the guests of the evening..... others as ourselves."

The strangers' ship has not yet arrived I know the house from the waving of kerchiefs. The first pigeon weeps over my shoulders.

And beneath the sky of gospels a child runs for no Bethlehem House with welcoming gate reason. Water runs, and the cypress runs, and the wind photo: Roxane Assaf runs in the wind, and the earth runs within itself.

I said: Do not leave the house in a hurry.... Nothing prevents this place from waiting here a little here, while you don the shirt of day, and wear on your feet the shoes of the air

The strangers' legend has not yet arrived......

None has arrived An Israeli tour bus discharges Perhaps the strangers have mistaken the road to the visitors to Rachel's Tomb (out of strangers' pleasure trip! frame right), now cut off from the rest of Bethlehem by a concrete wall and solid metal gate. photo: Roxane Assaf

Micky Mouse Freedom Lucky Dube Together as One Lucky Dube Mickey Mouse freedom/independence Too many people hate apartheid.

Me come ina you country Why do you like it? answers.com That is said to be free We've got to come all together as one. Lucky Dube, South Me sight corruption African anti-apartheid Me sight starvation reggae artist, was shot and killed last week. Walking like a millionaire 'cause you think you country is free Peace to his soul. One thing you don't know is that your country is being remote controlled

4 Mickey Mouse freedom/independence A NOTE FROM THE DIRECTOR

Dear Friends, 26 October 2007

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Yours in Peace, Desmond Tutu addresses a crowd in front of Boston's Old South Church in 2002 with Naim Ateek looking on.

Rev. Canon Dr. Naim Ateek Dir. Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Ctr. Jerusalem

After 30 years of parish ministry, Naim Ateek took an early retirement and dedicated his time to the ministry of Sabeel, Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center that he helped to found at the beginning of the 1990’s. As the president and director of Sabeel, he expanded Sabeel’s ministry both inside the country as well as abroad. In addition to the work of justice and peace, it includes the ecumenical ministry within the Christian community and the inter-faith work between Christians and Muslims.

Sabeel has expanded internationally, and Friends of Sabeel chapters have been established in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Australia, and Ireland. Chapters are forming in France & Germany.

Pictured left with Desmond Tutu: Canon Dr. Richard Toll, and Sr. Elaine Kelley, FOSNA Steering Committee Chair and Administrative Officer, respectively. 5 F RIDAY 26 O CTOBER 2007

2:30 – 6:00pm REGISTRATION [CHURCH FOYER] Networking, book sales, exhibits and information tables Meal tickets issued at registration for early dinner meal [DISPLAY AREA AND FOOD SALES SECOND FLOOR]

2:45 – 3:45pm DOCUMENTARY SCREENING [FOURTH FLOOR] “The Iron Wall”

3:00 – 4:00pm TEACH-IN [GORDON CHAPEL – ENTRANCE LEVEL] Donald Wagner "Anxious about Armageddon? Challenging Christian Zionism"

4:00 – 5:30pm DOCUMENTARY SCREENING [FOURTH FLOOR] “Occupation 101”

6:00 – 7:15pm WORDS OF WELCOME AND WORSHIP [SANCTUARY] Bo Fauth and Munir Jirmanus Friends of Sabeel New England Co-Chairs Archbishop Desmond Tutu – Blessing Worship – Please refer to the worship booklet in your folder Mahdi Bray – Welcome Sara Roy – Welcome Hilary Rantisi – Introducing Canon Dr. Naim Ateek Friends of Sabeel New England, former Jerusalem staff KEYNOTE Naim Ateek

7:30 – 9:00pm PANEL I [SANCTUARY] “The Apartheid Paradigm: How does it apply to Palestine/Israel?”

This panel addresses the viability of using the apartheid model of ethnic/racial segregation in South Africa to address the situation in Israel/Palestine.

Diana Buttu John Dugard Jeff Halper

Moderator: Phyllis Bennis

9:00 – 10:00pm RECEPTION [GORDON CHAPEL]

6 S ATURDAY 27 O CTOBER 2007

8:00 – 9:15am REGISTRATION [CHURCH FOYER] Exhibits/book sale [DISPLAY AREA SECOND FLOOR]

8:30 – 9:00am INTERFAITH WORSHIP [SANCTUARY] Please refer to the worship booklet in your folder 9:15 – 10:45am PANEL II [SANCTUARY] “The Apartheid Paradigm: A Challenge to Promoting Justice”

This panel examines the moral issues involved in confronting and dismantling apartheid-like policies in Israel/ Palestine.

Naim Ateek Anat Biletzki Farid Esack

Moderator: Joan Martin

11:00a – 12:30p PANEL III [SANCTUARY] “The Apartheid Paradigm: Responding from the US”

This panel addresses the emerging role of US social movements and government in propagating apartheid-like policies in Israel/Palestine.

Noam Chomsky David Wildman Noura Erekat

Moderator: Nancy Murray

12:30 – 1:30pm LUNCH / BREAK [GORDON CHAPEL, SECOND & FOURTH FLOORS] = LAST CHANCE = Book sales and information Food available for purchase – Meal tickets issued at registration

1:30 – 2:30pm KEYNOTE ADDRESS [SANCTUARY] Introduction by the Rt. Rev. M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE, Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Massachusetts KEYNOTE Archbishop Desmond Tutu

3:00 – 4:30pm TEARING DOWN WALLS, BUILDING BRIDGES Copley Square gathering [ACROSS THE STREET] Attendees may join this peace rally in solidarity with the Sabeel Conference. All clergy are asked to wear clerical attire if participating in the rally. (Details inside back cover)

PRESENTING...

NAIM ATEEK The Rev. Dr. Naim Ateek is president, director and co-founder of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Organization in Jerusalem. A Palestinian Christian who lives and serves in Palestine/Israel, Naim was the first to articulate a Palestinian theology of liberation in his book Justice, and Only Justice: a Palestinian Theology of Liberation, published by Orbis in 1989. The book laid the foundation of a theology that addresses the conflict over Palestine and explores the political as well as the religious, biblical, and theological dimensions. From a position of faith, Naim seeks to find solutions based on the faith principles of justice, peace, and nonviolence. He has edited and written other books and articles. A former Canon of St. George’s Cathedral, Jerusalem, he lectures widely both at home and abroad.

PHYLLIS BENNIS Phyllis Bennis is a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, focusing on Middle East and United Nations issues. She has written widely on Palestine, Iraq, and US domination of the UN, including her recent book Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer. In 2001 she helped found and is currently on the steering committee of the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation.

ANAT BILETZKI Anat Biletzki has been a professor of philosophy at Tel Aviv University since 1979 and is now with the Program on Human Rights and Justice at MIT. Professor Biletzki has published widely on Wittgenstein, Hobbes, analytic philosophy, and political thought. She is Visiting Albert Schweitzer Scholar at Quinnipiac University. Outside academia, Biletzki has been active in the peace movement and in human rights in Israel for over 25 years. Since 1996 she has been one of the leaders of Hacampus Lo Shotek – The Campus Is Not Silent – and is on the board of FFIPP – Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace. Until recently she was chairperson of the board of B’Tselem – the Israeli Information center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (2001-2006). In 2005 she was chosen as one of the “50 most influential women in Israel” by Globes, the Israeli business monthly, and was nominated among the “1,000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005”.

MAHDI BRAY Imam Mahdi Bray is a civil and human rights activist and talk-show host, currently serving as the Executive Director of Muslim American Society (MAS) Freedom. Bray also serves on the Board of the Interfaith Alliance and National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice and is a National Co-convener of Religions for Peace. Bray was an organizer for the "No War on Iraq" movement. He led peace missions in Bosnia, East Africa and Darfur, and served as a liaison between the President's Faith-Based Initiative and the Muslim community. Bray is the author of The Mosque Voter's Guide and The Political Guide for Mosque Activists.

PRESENTING...

DIANA BUTTU Diana Buttu is a Palestinian-Canadian lawyer and former legal advisor to the PLO. Buttu assisted in the litigation of Israel’s wall at the Hague in 2004 which resulted in the indictment of the wall. She received a law degree from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and a PhD in refugee issues from Stanford University.

NOAM CHOMSKY Professor Noam Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received his Phd in linguistics in 1955 from the University of Pennsylvania. During the years 1951 to 1955, Chomsky was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard University Society of Fellows. The major theoretical viewpoints of his doctoral dissertation appeared in the monograph Syntactic Structure, 1957. This formed part of a more extensive work, The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory, circulated in mimeograph in 1955 and published in 1975. Chomsky joined the staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1955 and in 1961 was appointed full professor. In 1976 he was appointed Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. Chomsky has lectured at many universities here and abroad, and is the recipient of numerous honorary degrees and awards. He has written and lectured widely on linguistics, philosophy, intellectual history, contemporary issues, international affairs and US foreign policy.

JOHN DUGARD Professor John Dugard is Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory to the UN Human Rights Council. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Leiden, Netherlands, and Professor of Human Rights Law at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is a Member of the UN International Law Commission and is an ad hoc judge in the International Court of Justice. He has written widely on apartheid and human rights including, Human Rights and the South Africa Legal Order (1978) and on international law International Law: A South Africa Perspective (3r ed 2005).

NOURA EREKAT Noura Erakat is a Palestinian-American legal activist. Upon graduating from law school at UC Berkeley, she received a New Voices Fellowship to work as the National Grassroots Organizer and Legal Advocate at the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. There she developed the Israeli Accountability Campaign which highlighted Israel's impunity using two ATCA suits filed against former Israeli military officials. As the National Grassroots Organizer, she helped build the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement in communities and on campuses nation-wide. Noura recently developed an Anti-Apartheid Framework Training Curriculum. She interned at Adalah: The Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel Proper; studied at Hebrew University; and volunteered in refugee camps throughout the West Bank and Lebanon.

9 PRESENTING...

FARID ESACK Professor Farid Esack is a scholar of Islam who cut his teeth on the South African struggle for liberation. He studied in Pakistan, the UK and Germany and is the author of Qur’an, Liberation and Pluralism; On Being a Muslim; An Introduction to the Qur’an; and Islam, HIV & AIDS – Reflections Based on Compassion, Responsibility and Justice. He has published extensively on Islam, gender, liberation theology, interfaith relations, and Qur'anic hermeneutics. Professor Esack is currently the Prince Al-Walid bin Talal Visiting Professor at Harvard University. In 2000, he co-founded Positive Muslims, an organization working with persons living with AIDS.

JEFF HALPER Dr. Jeff Halper is an Israeli professor of anthropology and the Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD). Jeff grew up in Hibbing, Minnesota, and received his PhD in Cultural and Applied Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee before moving to Israel in 1973. A community worker for the Jerusalem municipality for more than a decade, he worked in the poor Mizrahi Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem. He served as Chairman of the Israeli Committee for Ethiopian Jews. Jeff has taught at universities in Israel, the US, Latin America and Africa. Jeff Halper was nominated by the American Friends Service Committee for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, together with the Palestinian intellectual and activist Ghassan Andoni.

JOAN MARTIN The Reverend Dr. Joan M. Martin is the William W. Rankin Associate Professor of Christian Social Ethics at The Episcopal Divinity School (EDS), Cambridge, MA. She has been a member of the faculty since the academic year 1994-1995. Dr. Martin teaches a range of courses from the traditional introductory courses in Christian ethics to courses in contemporary issues such as "Vocation and Work in Church and Society" and "The Church, Class, and the US/Global Economy." In addition to her teaching and committee responsibilities, she serves as the Doctor of Ministry Degree Coordinator, and has made significant contributions to institutional antiracism efforts at EDS.

NANCY MURRAY Dr. Nancy Murray is on the advisory committee of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and is an active member of the Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights among other activist affiliations. Holding a BA from Harvard University and a PhD in Modern History from Oxford University, she has worked as a scholar, organizer, and human rights activist in the United Kingdom and Kenya as well as in the United States. Murray has written on civil liberties, civil rights, and human rights issues and serves on the editorial committee of the journal Race and Class. She is the author of Palestinians: Life Under Occupation (1991) and several articles on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She co-founded and directed the Middle East Justice Network (1989-1996) and serves as president of the Gaza Mental Health Foundation, Inc. In 2007 she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (Mass. Chapter).

SARA ROY Dr. Sara Roy is a Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University where she completed her doctoral studies in international development. Trained as a political economist, Dr. Roy has worked in the Gaza Strip and West Bank since 1985 conducting research primarily on the economic, social and political development of the Gaza Strip and on U.S. foreign aid to the region. Dr. Roy has written extensively on the Palestinian economy, particularly in Gaza, and has documented its development over the last three decades. Dr. Roy also has authored over 80 publications dealing with Palestinian issues and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, including The Gaza Strip (1995, 2001), editor of The Economics of Middle East Peace (1999) and Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict (2006).

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DESMOND TUTU Desmond Mpilo Tutu was born in Klerksdorp, South Africa, on 7 October 1931. After three years as a high school teacher, in 1958 he entered the Anglican ministry and was ordained to the priesthood in Johannesburg in 1961. From 1967 to 1978 he served in a number of increasingly prominent church positions. By 1978, in the wake of the 1976 Soweto uprising, now Bishop Tutu took up the post of General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches (SACC). Justice and reconciliation and an end to apartheid were the SACC’s priorities, and as General Secretary, Bishop Tutu pursued these goals with vigor and commitment. Under his guidance, the SACC became an important institution in South African spiritual and political life, challenging white society and the government and affording assistance to the victims of apartheid.

Bishop Tutu became heavily embroiled in controversy as he spoke out against the injustices of the apartheid system. For several years he was denied a passport to travel abroad. Nevertheless, Tutu increasingly became a prominent leader in the crusade for justice and racial conciliation in South Africa. In 1984, he received the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his extraordinary contributions to that cause. In 1985, Bishop Tutu was elected Bishop of Johannesburg, and in 1986 he was named Archbishop of Cape Town. As Archbishop, he became a principal mediator and conciliator in the transition to democracy in South Africa. In 1995, President Nelson Mandela appointed Archbishop Tutu Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a body set up to probe gross human rights violations that occurred under apartheid. In 1996, shortly after his retirement from office as Archbishop of Cape Town, Tutu was granted the honorary title of Archbishop Emeritus.

Though his vigorous advocacy of social justice once rendered him a controversial figure, today Archbishop Tutu is regarded as an elder world statesman with a major role to play in reconciliation, and as a leading moral voice. He has become an icon of hope far beyond the Church and Southern Africa.

DON WAGNER Dr. Donald Wagner is a Professor at North Park University in Chicago where he serves as the Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the only such center at an Evangelical college or university in North America or Europe. Recent books include Dying in the Land of Promise (Palestine and Palestinian Christianity from Pentecost-2000) and Anxious for Armageddon (Christian Zionism and the Church’s responsibility). Wagner serves on the Board of Friends of Sabeel North America.

DAVID WILDMAN David Wildman is Executive Secretary for Human Rights & Racial Justice with the General Board of Global Ministries (GBGM) of the United Methodist Church. He serves on behalf of GBGM on the steering committee for the US Campaign to End Israeli Occupation.

EXHIBITORS SECOND FLOOR

1. Massachusetts Bible Society 2. Folk Art Mavens 3. Interlink Publishing 4. Friends Of Sabeel North America 5. Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions - USA 6. American Association for Palestinian Equal Rights Foundation 7. Palestinian Olive Oil & Marcel Khalife tickets 8. Living Stones 9. If Americans Knew 10. Jewish Voice for Peace 11. Washington Report on Middle East Affairs 12. Grassroots International 13. Interfaith Peace Builders 14. American Friends Service Committee 15. Siraj 16. Middle East Children's Alliance 17. Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East

Photographs courtesy of Skip Schiel, teeksaphoto.org

Photo: Carolyn Hart

12 Thank you to the many people whose time, talents, and generosity have made the Boston Conference 2007 possible.

Friends of Sabeel

Anonymous John and Margaret Roll Linda Ammons and John Worrell Margaret Lidback Bruce Shipman Abla Aranki Martha Luna Mary Lou Leiser Smith Marjean Bailey John Makhoul Stephen Steadman Randall Bailey Polly and John Malcolm Judith Stuart Elizabeth Blackwell Manal Millhem and Samir McDonald Sullivan and Dottie Jeff Brown Moukaddam Walker Steven Charleston Anne Minton Andrea and Douglas Whitmore Charles and Doris Cutting, Jr. Katherine Mitchell Robert Trache and Eliza Sandra Danussi and Paul Dooling Dalell Mohmed Ragsdale Trache Bo Morgan Fauth Francis Moore Karen Ullestad Timothy Ferguson Gaylen Morgan Donald Wells Ann Franklin Elaine Mosesian Kenneth and Linda Ziebell Donald and Nahida Gordon Joyce Naumann Katherine and Karl Gustafson Kenneth Near Elaine Hagopian ·Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Germana Nijim Harry and Judith Hoehler Church, Somerville, MA Rodney Peterson Angelica and Richard Harter ·Church of the Good Shepherd Thomas Phillipp Munir and Naila Jirmanus (Episcopal), Watertown, MA Paul Rehm and Katja Sander- Charles and Virginia Kennedy ·Episcopal Divinity School Rehm Omar and Margaret Khodari Kansas City Friends of Sabeel Liz Rice-Smith Ruth Bradbury LaMonte & ·Old South Church Leila Richards Ed LaMonte

Volunteers partial list Organizers from the Friends of Sabeel New England Committee: Bo Morgan Fauth, Ann Franklin, Munir Jirmanus, Hilary Rantisi

Salma Abu Ayyash Ellen Frith Hannah Mermelstein Kamal Ahmad Ann Franklin Katherine Mitchell Dunya Alwan Christine Giraud Tamin Mohammad Roxane Assaf Gay Harter Charley Musselman Elly Andujar Janice Hayden Susie Neubauer Celeste Attallah-Gutierrez Rob Flynn Rosamond Rosenmeier Devin Atallah Munir Jirmanus Hannah Schuller Kendall Atterbury Naila Jirmanus Steven Steadman Susan Barney Ann Kotell Blythe Taplin Sharon Bogue Sandra Lampert Jesse Tauriac Mark Booker Martha London Donald Veach Urmi Chakrabarti Polly Malcolm Wilbur Wood Harry Hoehler Rima Masoud Abby Yanow Timothy Ferguson Linda Ziebell

13 This Conference is sponsored by

FRIENDS OF SABEEL ― NORTH AMERICA and hosted by FRIENDS OF SABEEL – NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER and these CO-SPONSORS

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee - Massachusetts Chapter American Friends Service Committee – Peace and Economic Security Program Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights Boston Theological Institute Episcopal Divinity School Grassroots International ICHAD-USA (Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions) Jewish Voice for Peace - Boston Chapter Islamic Society of Boston Middle East Children’s Alliance Muslim American Society – Boston Chapter National Lawyers Guild - Massachusetts Chapter Pax Christi – Massachusetts Society of Saint John the Evangelist Somerville/Medford United for Justice and Peace Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East Unitarian Universalists Service Committee U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation Watertown Citizens for Environmental Safety

Book Description This is a historical novel about Palestine. The characters are fictitious, but the dates, locations and historical events are real. The story begins in the Shatila Refugee Camp in Lebanon in 1982, the year of the massacre. The main character is a schoolboy, Farres, to whom his great-grandmother, Miriam, hands a string of 'worry beads' to remind him of Palestine, just before she dies. The story then reverts to life in a village of Northern Palestine, not far from the city of Haifa, where Miriam lives as a young girl. Alternate chapters unfold the life of Miriam in the early 1900s culminating with her exile into Lebanon in 1948. At the same time it unfolds the life of Farres, growing up in a refugee camp but with dreams of becoming a doctor and of one day seeing the land of his forefathers.

Signed copies available for purchace at the Sabeel conference display room on the 2nd floor 14 THE APARTHEID PARADIGM IN PALESTINE-ISRAEL: ISSUES OF JUSTICE AND EQUALITY FRIENDS OF SABEEL NORTH AMERICA/NEW ENGLAND BOSTON 26-27 OCTOBER 2007 notes notes notes notes notes notes notes notes notes notes notes notes notes notes

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22 After the Conference, please join:

The Boston Chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace, The Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee, Mass. Chapter American Friends Service Committee, The Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights, Centro Presente, Jewish Women for Justice and Peace in Israel/Palestine, Pax Christi Massachusetts, Friends of Sabeel North America, and Unitarian Universalists for Peace in the Middle East

Tearing Down Walls – Building Bridges Protesting Apartheid in Israel/Palestine th October 27 , 2007 3:00 p. m. Copley Square, Boston

Clergy and lay people will lead us in a procession to Copley Square where together we will take a stand for justice and human rights for everyone in Israel/Palestine.

“We should put out a clarion call to the government of the people of Israel, to the Palestinian people and say: peace is possible, peace based on justice is possible. We will do all we can to assist you to achieve this peace, because it is God's dream, and you will be able to live amicably together as sisters and brothers.” Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu

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23 Apartheid?

Jimmy Carter said it: "Israel does occupy this territory deep within the West Bank, and connects 200-or-so settlements with each other, with a road, and then prohibits the Palestinians from using that road, or in many cases even crossing the road. This perpetrates even worse instances of apartness, or apartheid, than we witnessed even in South Africa." Interview with BBC News 11 December 2006

Israeli human rights group B’Tselem said it: “Israel has created in the Occupied Territories a regime of separation based on discrimination, applying two separate systems of law in the same area and basing the rights of individuals on their nationality. This regime . . .is reminiscent of distasteful regimes from the past such as the Apartheid regime in South Africa.” 2002 btselem.org/English/Publications/Summaries/200205_Land_Grab.asp

Nelson Mandela said it: “Apartheid is a crime against humanity. Israel has deprived millions of Palestinians of their liberty and property. It has perpetuated a system of gross racial discrimination and inequality. It has systematically incarcerated and tortured thousands of Palestinians, contrary to the rules of international law. It has, in particular, waged a war against a civilian population, in particular children.” 2001 Memo on Palestine to Thomas Friedman

Desmond Tutu said it: “If I were to change the names, the description of what is happening in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank could describe events in South Africa.” 1989 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE6DB1F3AF937A15751C1A96F948260

Bantustans in the West Bank Palestinians are ghettoized in Bantustans in South Africa 12 percent of their original territory. endtheoccupation.org/downloads/AAFWhyApartheid.pdf

The West Bank is divided up into more than 64 isolated cantons with no physical movement without Israel's permission. poica.org/editor/case_studies/view.php?recordID=529

There are over 500 military check- points where Palestinians often wait for hours, and must have ID cards and passes just to travel short distances. Israeli settlers can travel easily on Israeli-only roads. iht.com/articles/2006/12/25/news/mideast.php

This dispossession is reminiscent of apartheid which set aside 13% of the lands as “Bantustan” ccmep.org/delegations/maps/palestine.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantustan homelands for black South Africans.

It Is Time We Admit The Truth: Apartheid Exists in the Occupied Territories