Harvard pro-Palestinian group hosts BDS speakers at Israel Apartheid Week
A number of student organizations co-sponsored individual events, including Jewish Coalition for Peace.
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(May 5, 2021 / JNS) The Harvard College Palestine Solidarity Committee ended its annual Israeli Apartheid Week, which included a roster of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic speakers and programs.
Programs, held from April 26-30 virtually this year, included webinars titled “Healthcare Injustices in Palestine and the COVID-19 Pandemic,” and “Divestment as a Historical Tool for Justice,” which was a discussion with tenured Harvard Professor Cornel West, a supporter of BDS, and BDS movement co-founder Omar Barghouti.
Featured panelists included Swarthmore College associate professor and BDS advocate Sa’ed A. Atshan, and Palestinian feminist scholar and activist Yamila Hussein-Shannan, who has claimed that Palestinian men are “forced to parade naked in the streets” by Israeli soldie
UPDATED: May 3, 2021 at 3:10 p.m.
The Harvard College Palestine Solidarity Committee virtually hosted its annual Israeli Apartheid Week, a series of events to raise awareness about the Israel-Palestine conflict, last week.
This yearâs IAW included webinars titled âHealthcare Injustices in Palestine and the COVID-19 Pandemicâ and âPalestine and the Progressive Agenda,â and featured panelists including Swarthmore College associate professor Saâed A. Atshan and Palestinian activist Yamila Hussein-Shannan.
Harvardâs Palestine Solidarity Committee is an undergraduate organization âdedicated to supporting the Palestinian struggle for self-determination, justice, and equality through raising awareness, advocacy, and non-violent resistance,â per its website.
Asmer Safi â23-â24, a member of the group, wrote in an emailed statement that this yearâs virtual IAW marked a âvital continuationâ of the committeeâs advocac