Voices from the Holy Land Online Film Salon: "Silencing Student Voices"

Israel’s genocide on Palestine has driven an ongoing student protest movement on the nation’s university campuses. These protests have adopted similar calls for divestment from the war industries supplying the advanced weapons systems the US government is sending to Israel. Common protest tactics include encampments, banner drops, leafleting, and self-education.
As the US continues its unqualified support for Israel, how do we assess the successes of these movements? How have universities framed these protests? What has prompted Higher Ed's extreme responses involving the deployment of urban police forces? How have definitions of constitutionally guaranteed free speech been redrawn by Higher Ed? What has been the impact of the “Palestine exception”? What if any are the limits of non-violent protest, and according to whose interests?

Watch the films at your convenience before the event. Then join us with your thoughts and questions for our speakers at the Q&A Discussion with:

Ilan Cohen: Jewish American student activist, Columbia University
Rama Ali Kased: Assoc. Professor, Race and Resistance Studies, College of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University
Maryam Alwan: Palestinian American student activist, Columbia University
Natasha Lennard (Moderator): Author and journalist; Assoc. Director, Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism program, New School for Social Research

You must register to join the discussion & receive access to the films:
http://Tinyurl.com/VFHL-November2024