8/8/2019 Anna Baltzer talk in Japan (Flyer, reverse side)
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The ethnic cleansing of Palestine is happening right now. Not
only have the massacres and expulsions of the past never been
officially acknowledged,
but the Nakba continues today with every destroyed home and
Palestinian emigrant. However, the unwavering resistance and resi
lience of the remaining
Palestinian population have, so far, ensured that Israels ethnic
cleansing of Pal estine remains incomplete. It is up to all of us
to ensure that the
Palestinians steadfast struggle for survival and freedom has not
been in vain.
This is a struggle for justice. It affects all of us, all of us
are involved. As Dr. Martin Luther King said, injustice anywhere is
a threat to justice
everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of
mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.
Nothing will Stop Humans Anna Baltzer
Anna Baltzer Anna Baltzer, human rights activist and campaigner,
granddaughter of a Nazi Holocaust survivor, joined the
International Women's Peace Service in 2003 to volunteer in
Palestine under Israeli occupation. She
returned repeatedly to experience the reality of the occupation,
living and working with farmers and
Palestinian and Israeli activists, and the families of political
prisoners. Her experiences, which led her to a
sharp critique of US and Israeli policy in Palestine, are
detailed in the reportage, Witness in Palestine: A
Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories , were praised
highly by Noam Chomsky and others.
Even those who are familiar with the grim reality of the
occupied territories wil l quickly be
drawn into a world they had barely imagined by these vivid,
searingly honest, intensely
acute portrayals. NOAM CHOMSKY
Anna Baltzer lecture
Lecture: Peace and Human Rights in Palestine
Peace and Human Rights in Palestine at Kyoto University , South
Campus
11.16 Tues. 18:30~21.30
Sign up! Pre-registration at [email protected] Venue
Ningen-Kankyogaku Kenkyuka-to (Graduate School of Human
& Environmental Studies) Chika Kogishitsu (Basement Lecture
Hall)
Access map at
http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/access/campus/y_south.htm
The Occupation, witnessed by Anna Baltzer
Since 2003, the reality of life in Occupied Palestine has been
witnessed by the eyes of a Jewish
American woman, and it has changed her life irrevocably. As a
Jew, as an American, as a woman,
and simply as Anna Baltzer, she wanted to let the world know
that reality: how the state of
Israel and the US, with its aid and weapons justified many forms
of violence against Palestinians.
When I tell most people in the United States that Im wor king in
the West Bank, they always
ask me the same question: Which side are you on, the Palestinian
or the Israeli? I never
know what to answer; the question sounds so absurd to me. This
is not a struggle between
Palestinians and Israelis, its a struggle for freedom and basic
human rights. So which side
am I on? I am on the side of human dignity and
self-determination. I am on the side of those
who seek equal rights for all, regardless of religion,
nationality, or ethnicity. This is the
struggle of everyone sharing those ideals, even if today the
victims are Palestinian. Tomorrow
they could be you. This is your struggle, too. For Anna, Mass
propaganda has succeeded in
equating the Israeli government and army with the Jewish people:
a criticism of one has
become a criticism of the other. occupying Arab populations has
nothing to do with
Judaism or Americanism. Being Jewish or Israeli doesnt have to
mean unconditionally
supporting the actions of the Israeli government any more than
being American means
unconditionally supporting the actions of the United States
government. . Israels
Occupation, she argues, puts the Jewish state at greater risk
than ever. It has resulted
in disapproval and resentment on an international scale; in
ever-inc reasing loss of life,
liberty, democracy and human security in the region; in
undermining the Jewish
tradition of humanitarianism and social justice; in creating a
dependence on US
military aid that cannot be sustained indefinitely .
Anna Baltzer is visiting Japan at the invitation of JALT and
other supporting institutions.
This is a special opportunity to meet her and hear her talking
about the truth. We look
forward to welcoming you.
from Seeking Freedom
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