IPSC Film Screening: Occupation 101

kildare | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Tuesday November 03, 2009 14:44 by Kev - IPSC (pers cap) info at ipsc dot ie

Part of the International Week of Solidarity Against the Apartheid Walls in Palestine and Siege of Gaza

As part of the International Week of Solidarity Against the Apartheid Walls in Palestine and Siege of Gaza, the IPSC NUIM Maynooth branch is proud to present a screening of Occupation 101.

The film will start at 6pm on Tuesday 10th November in Room 3/4, in the Students Union building, NUI Maynooth.

About the film:

Occupation 101: Voices of the Silenced Majority is an award winning 2006 documentary on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The film focuses on the effects of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and discusses events from the rise of Zionism to the Second Intifada. Occupation 101 includes interviews with mostly American and Israeli scholars, religious leaders, humanitarian workers, and NGO representatives.

Featured interviews include :

Richard Falk. 2001 United Nations Fact-finding Commission in the West Bank and Gaza.
Amira Hass. Israeli journalist - Ha'aretz.
Professor Ilan Pappe. Israeli historian - Haifa University (now University of Exeter).
Professor Noam Chomsky. Linguist - MIT Professor.
Father Drew Christiansen. United States Catholic Conference.
Douglas Dicks. Catholic Relief Services in Jerusalem. Outreach program director.
Professor Rashid Khalidi. School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia Univ.