Edmund Hanauer's Lecture on "US Policy towards Palestine/Israel: How Americans Can Work for Peace in Palestine/Israel"
Speaker: Edmund Hanauer, SEARCH for Justice and Equality in Palestine/Israel
Time: 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Location: the African/African-American Hall of Fame in the Frank W. Hale Jr., Black Cultural Center, 153 West 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH
About the Speaker: Edmund Hanauer is the director of SEARCH for Justice and Equality in Palestine/Israel (SEARCH) and edits SEARCH's Palestine/Israel File. In addition to numerous lectures at leading universities and talks to civic, educational, and human rights groups, Hanauer has spoken twice to the Nieman Fellows in Journalism at Harvard and the State Department's Open Forum of the Secretary of State. Hanauer's articles on the Arab-Israeli conflict have appeared in more than 30 major newspapers, and he has been interviewed numerous times on TV and radio, including C-SPAN and National Public Radio.
Sample Articles by Edmund Hanauer: "Double Standard Must End," _Milwaukee Journal Sentinel_ 25 February 2002; "Mideast Policy Counterproductive," _Seattle Post-Intelligencer_ 7 February 2002, <http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0208-10.htm>; "Palestinians' Rights Ignored," _USA Today_ 26 July 2000, <http://www.searchforjustice.org/articles/07.26.00.html>; "Camp David and the Al-Aqsa Intifada," <http://www.searchforjustice.org/articles/summary2000.html>; & "U.S. Policy Must Force Barak's Hype into Real Action," _Houston Chronicle_ 20 July 1999, <http://www.searchforjustice.org/articles/07.20.99.html>.
About SEARCH: SEARCH is a national non-profit human rights and educational organization, founded in 1972, which seeks a just Israeli-Palestinian peace based on the inalienable rights of both peoples. SEARCH's focus is on improving media coverage on Palestine/Israel. SEARCH believes that justice for Palestinians and security for Israeli Jews are not mutually exclusive, but interdependent. The attainment of Palestinian rights is therefore a desirable goal in itself, as well as a means of securing Israel's future. That future cannot be assured while Palestinian rights are denied. SEARCH seeks a US policy committed to the rights of both peoples. Unfortunately, US policy, which includes aid to Israel of over three billion dollars a year, enables Israel to disregard international law, human rights, and democratic values (Human Rights Petition 1999, <http://www.searchforjustice.org/petition_intro.html>). No peace is possible without a change in US policy. A prerequisite for such change is a US public both better informed and insistent on a just resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Sponsor: the Student International Forum Contact: Yoshie Furuhashi, 668-6554 or <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>; or Mark D. Stansbery, 252-9255. -- Yoshie
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