Join us on Saturday 13 December in Amsterdam, for a special programme with Israeli historian Ilan Pappé and Palestinian journalist Mariam Barghouti. Get your tickets now!
Israeli historian Ilan Pappé, author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine and other prominent works, has played a crucial role in challenging the dominant Western narrative that presents Israel as a liberal democracy born in innocence. His work exposed the foundational violence and displacement at the heart of the Israeli state project.
From her home in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian journalist Mariam Barghouti documents how this process of dispossession and erasure continues today — through military occupation, segregation, and control over every aspect of Palestinian life.
Yet in the Netherlands, as in much of the West, politicians and major media outlets largely cling to a sanitized image of Israel that bears little resemblance to reality. Poll after poll, however, shows that a growing majority of Dutch citizens wish to break with this long-held but false ideas about Israel and support meaningful action for Palestinian liberation. Why, then, does a just policy toward Palestine remain so elusive?
In this programme, Pappé and Barghouti connect past and present — exploring the persistence of colonial frames, the power of narrative, and the possibilities for change.
Following the discussion, there will be time for questions from the audience.
Saturday 13th December
Doors open: 13:00
Start: 13:30
End: 15:30
Location
Aula der Universiteit van Amsterdam
Singel 411, 1012 WN Amsterdam
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