The Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies in the School of English (in collaboration with the Palestine Centre at SOAS, University of London) has invited Amira Hass, Israel’s leading reporter on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, to the UK to give two talks – one at Kent and the other at SOAS.

This is a unique opportunity to hear a first-hand, expert account of the situation in Israel-Palestine by someone who has been covering the Israeli occupation and its daily practices for the last three decades for Israel’s leading liberal newspaper Haaretz. Hass will describe the current situation on the ground in the Occupied Territories, including Israel’s ongoing settlement practices and the impact of the Israeli occupation and the Oslo peace accords on Palestinian daily life, and she will also explain the root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Are there any prospects for justice and reconciliation in the near future?

Please join us for this important discussion of the current state in Israel-Palestine.

Amira Hass (Haaretz)
‘Israel and the Palestinians: Colonialism and Prospects for Justice’
Thursday 28 January, 18.00, Keynes Lecture Theatre 1

Amira Hass is reporter and columnist on the Occupied Palestinian Territories for Haaretz newspaper in Israel, and is author of Drinking the Sea at Gaza (1999) and Reporting from Ramallah (2003). She has also published her mother’s Diary of Bergen-Belsen, 1944-45 (2009). In 2009, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Women’s Media Foundation and was described as ‘one of the greatest truth-seekers of them all’.

All welcome. A drinks reception in Keynes Foyer will follow.
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