On Saturday 29 November 2008, Arab Media Watch adviser Dr Karma Nabulsi joins a panel alongside Israeli professor Ilan Pappe (Exeter University) and Gideon Levy of Israel's Haaretz newspaper, entitled "The occupation and Israeli civil society."

On Tuesday 2 December, Nabulsi joins a panel with Levy and Israeli Eyal Sivan of the University of East London, entitled "The Israeli occupation: Apathy in society."

Start Date/Time:	Tuesday, December 02, 2008 7:00 PM
End Date/Time:	Tuesday, December 02, 2008 9:00 PM
Description:	Gideon Levy (Ha'aretz) & Karma Nabulsi (Arab Media Watch, Oxford University) in conversation with Eyal Sivan (University of East London) Venue: Khalili Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, London   Gideon Levy is a prominent Israeli journalist for the Ha'aretz newspaper, where he is a member of the editorial board. He is a prominent left-wing commentator. He formerly served as a spokesperson for Shimon Peres between 1978 and 1982. Since 1982 Levy has a weekly article on Palestinian every day life under occupation entitled "the twilight zone." A key figure of Israel's opposition, Levy wrote during the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon: Karma Nablusi is an AMW adviser, Oxford University lecturer in international relations, and a former PLO representative. Eyal Sivan is a reader in media practice at the school of social science Media and Cultural Studies at UEL.   "Those who have been silent until now can remain enveloped in their silence. Those whose conscience doesn't torture them and whose sleep is uninterrupted by Israel's behaviour in the territories can continue resting in peace. (…) But those who regard the Palestinians as only requiring basic food should remember that even in the zoos, where the animals presumably don't lack for a thing, people are often shocked by the conditions of their imprisonment." (Gideon Levy, 9 April 2006, Ha'aretz)   "The Zionist left has also been made irrelevant. As in every difficult test in the past - the two intifadas for example - this time too the left has failed just when its voice was so necessary as a counterweight to the stridency of the beating tom-toms of war. Why have a left if at every real test it joins the national chorus?" (Gideon Levy, Days of Darkness, Ha'aretz, 30/07/2006)

Start Date/Time:	Saturday, November 29, 2008 2:00 PM
End Date/Time:	Saturday, November 29, 2008 4:00 PM
Description:	Speakers: Gideon Levy (Ha'aretz) Karma Nabulsi (Arab Media Watch, Oxford University) Prof Ilan Pappe (Exeter University) Venue: Khalili Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental & African Studies, Malet Street, London WC1 (nearest tube: Russell Square) "Today there is hardly a university [in Israel] that does not offer special courses for officers, pilots and secret agents." "The entire nation is an army and Bar-Ilan [University] is all security." "The universities must not allow themselves to be conscripted into safeguarding Israel's security. They must not bow down to this idol." These comments from a recent article in Israel's leading daily newspaper, Ha'aretz, direct attention to the role played by universities in the illegal occupation of Palestine.* The author, campaigning journalist Gideon Levy, suggests that Israel's academic institutions are integral to the occupation: that together with the media, the legal system, the health system, in fact the whole of civil society, they are part of the means by which military rule is sustained. Israel's civilian institutions serve the occupation. Palestinians, meanwhile, are denied the most basic resources. Under military rule they are denied access to land and water, movement is restricted, schools and universities struggle to maintain teaching, and hospitals lack basic equipment and trained staff. Join this discussion about the recruitment of Israeli society to the service of the occupation. What are the implications and what can be done in Israel, Palestine and Britain? * "Shin Bet's academic freedom," Ha'aretz, 8/9/2008: www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1018912.html Supported by SOAS Palestine Society and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.