Acknowledging the Past, Building a Landscape for Future Reconciliation

Acknowledging the Past, Building a Landscape for Future Reconciliation
Eitan Bronstein, Rula Awwad-Rafferty, and Ali Abunimah AFSC/file
Acknowledging the Past, Building a Landscape for Future Reconciliation
Eitan Bronstein, Rula Awwad-Rafferty, and Ali Abunimah AFSC/file

Acknowledging the Past, Building a Landscape for Future Reconciliation

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This event explores the raw, emotional encounters with the refugee right of return and investigates its practical implementation.  The program highlights reconciliation efforts based on understanding the past and building future peaceful coexistence.

Eitan Bronstein is a Jewish-Israeli educator, activist, and director of the Israeli organization Zochrot. Founded in 2002, Zochrot seeks to educate Jewish Israelis about al-Nakba, the Arabic word for “catastrophe,” which refers to the 1948 dispossession of Palestinians.

Rula Awwad-Rafferty is a Palestinian-American Professor of Landscape Architecture and Bioregional Planning and Community Design at the University of Idaho.  Born to a Palestinian refugee from Qula, she was able to go back to the place of her birth only as a U.S. citizen in 2008, after 42 years of absence.

Ali Abunimah is author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse and has contributed to numerous other volumes and written hundreds of articles on the question of Palestine.  He is co-founder of The Electronic Intifada, an award-winning online publication about Palestine and the Palestine-Israeli conflict.

Sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), DePaul, SJP-UIC, SJP-Northwestern, SJP-University of Chicago, SJP-Benedictine, and Jewish Voice for Peace - Chicago.

Recorded Friday, November 13, 2009 at DePaul University.