Universities across the globe mark Israeli Apartheid Week

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LONDON - A filmmaker, anthropologist and economic researcher are among those headlining events marking what pro-Palestinian organizers have declared as "Israeli Apartheid Week" - and all three speakers are Israeli.

University campuses in more than 40 cities around the world are marking the week with lectures, films, multimedia events, cultural performances and demonstrations.

Since they were first launched in 2005, the events have become some of "the most important global events in the Palestine solidarity calendar," according to its organizers.

Its aim, they state on their Web site, is to "contribute to this chorus of international opposition to Israeli apartheid and to bolster support for the boycotts, divestments and sanctions (BDS) campaign."

Though many of the details about those events were not being promoted on the Apartheid Week Web site, it did list several events being offered by Israelis.

Among them is Shir Hever, an economic researcher at the Alternative Information Center in Jerusalem, who is scheduled to give a series of lectures at the University of Amsterdam entitled "Could the Economic Policies of Israel be Considered a Form of Apartheid?"

In addition, Israeli activist and filmmaker Shai Carmeli-Pollak is screening his 2006 documentary "Bil'in Habibti," about Israel Defense Forces violence, at Boston-area universities.

Jeff Halper, the Israel-based professor of anthropology who is co-founder and coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, was scheduled to speak on "Israeli Apartheid: The Case For BDS" at Glasgow University.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1153017.html

[Igel]

1. I've often wondered.

Xians--and their opponents--often cite a NT passage in which Jesus says "first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye."

I wonder what he'd have replied had somebody been snarky to say, "But, Jesus--what if there's just a mote in my eye and a beam in the other guy's? What then?"

Or even, "Hey, Jesus--because of optics, isn't any mote in my own eye likely to distend at least as great an agle as a beam in my brother's? Provided that he's not standing too close, of course."

[ProgressiveMuslim]

2. Or perhaps apartheid should be reviled wherever it exists... Don't play Sun City! nt