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Palestinian Poetry and Protest

category national | miscellaneous | event notice author Friday June 02, 2006 16:22author by David L - IPSC Report this post to the editors

Protest against Israeli funded event in Irish Writer’s Centre

Protest: Irish Writers Centre, Parnell Square, Tuesday, 6th June. 6.30-8 p.m.

Yitzhak Laor: Teacher’s Club, Parnell Square, Tuesday, 6th June. 8 p.m.

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On Tuesday, June 6th, the Israeli government is bringing over writer, A.B. Yehoshua – a public advocate of war crimes against Palestinian civilians – to speak at the Irish Writers Centre. By accepting Israeli sponsorship, the Writers Centre isn’t just ignoring Israel’s crimes; they’re also legitimising its censorship of Palestinian culture. The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) is organising two events to protest against this event.

There will be a leafleting of people going into the Yehoshua talk, explaining why we are there, from 6.30 on Tuesday evening. This will be followed by a reading from the works of the two Palestinian poets, Zakaria Mohammed and Ghassan Zaqtan who were due to take part in a poetry evening in Ireland in November 2002, in the Irish Writer’s Centre. They never arrived – to the evident unconcern of the Writers Centre, the Israeli government stopped them from travelling.

As IPSC chairman, James Bowen stated ‘The task of serious writers is to speak truth to power. If the IWC allows the above event to proceed, it will fail in this duty; instead, it will help Israeli state power to obscure the horrific truth about the crimes committed on the population of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.’

This protest will be followed by a talk by acclaimed Israeli writer and activist, Yitzhak Laor in the Teachers Club at 8 pm.

Yitzhak Laor is a renowned Israeli poet and writer, the author of five poetry books, 19 novels, plays and article collections.He also edits the Israeli journal – ‘Mita’am – A Journal of Literature and Radical Thought’. A long-time supporter of Palestinian rights, he has been harshly critical of the traditional Zionist left in Israel and how they are ‘selling… warmongering wrapped up in peace phraseology’. He is being bought to Ireland by the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, so Irish people can hear a real Israeli voice for peace.

A.B. Yehoshua despite his depiction as an Israeli ‘leftist’, has demanded that illegal Israeli settlements be annexed and that the Palestinian territories be walled off. Should Palestinians fight against being encased in such bantustans, he has notoriously advocated a terrorist war against civilians – similar, in fact to the one Israel is now conducting.

From the minute we withdraw I don't want to know their names. I don't want any personal relations with them… We shall use force against an entire population. We shall use total force. It will be a totally different war. It will be much harder on the Palestinians. (A.B. Yehoshua Ha’aretz interview 19.3.04).

Protest: Irish Writers Centre, Parnell Square, Tuesday, 6th June. 6.30-8 p.m.

Yitzhak Laor: Teacher’s Club, Parnell Square, Tuesday, 6th June. 8 p.m.

Related Link: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/76327
author by Fintan Lane - Anti-War Irelandpublication date Fri Jun 02, 2006 21:53author address author phone Report this post to the editors

No doubt we will hear complaints from some quarters that this protest is an attack on a writer's 'right to free expression'. Actually, it's a protest against the expressed right-wing, pro-war, anti-Palestinian politics of this bigot. One can agree or disagree with his comments, and I profoundly disagree. Those who agree need to reflect on what it is they support. His remarks weren't said in vacuum; public support for anti-Palestinian violence helps to perpetuate real oppression and real social misery.

See you at the picket.

author by HARpublication date Thu Jun 08, 2006 13:01author address author phone Report this post to the editors

How was it? Any comment? Pictures?

author by Anna O'Leary - Journalist and Broadcasterpublication date Tue Mar 01, 2016 20:39author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Israel has locked up peace and thrown away the keys.

author by Anna O'Leary - Journalist and Broadcasterpublication date Tue Mar 01, 2016 20:39author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Israel has locked up peace and thrown away the keys.

author by Bobpublication date Tue Jun 14, 2016 12:11author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Palestine is and has always been part of Syria (Southern Syria) since centuries. The so called "Palestinian" "struggle" is a myth.
If anything, the struggle is between Syria and Israel. I am fed up to see useful idiots in the west being manipulated by islamists whose only agenda is the extermination (again) of the jews in their own land this time.
The Hamas is a terrorist group and we see everyday and again this week with the massacre of Orlando what their totalitarian ideology is about.

There is no Palestinian people or country, this is a construction...

author by Rational Ecologistpublication date Thu Jun 23, 2016 12:46author address author phone Report this post to the editors

They are all constructions, so, just some are older than other, all equally illegitimate applying your logic to its end destination if you catch my-continental-drift.
We are all Pangaeans!!

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