This looks like a good event this coming Wednesday. From the Hudson Valley Activist Newsletter. I gather that Lillian Rosengarten will also be on the panel:
Wednesday, Nov. 10, NEW PALTZ (State University of NY campus): A public meeting titled “Crisis in Israel/Palestine” will take place in the auditorium of the Coykendall Science Building on campus. The subtitle asks two questions: What do Americans Need to Know? What is the Palestinian Side of the Story?
This 7 p.m. event is co-sponsored by the Hudson Valley Activist Newsletter, Middle East Crisis Response, and Peace and Social Progress Now. The campus sponsor is the Muslim Students Association. A main purpose of the educational event, according to the organizers, will be to discuss “the Palestinian side of the story because the great majority of Americans have only been exposed to the views of Israel and the United States and not to those of the Palestinians.”
Speakers include Mariam Haris, a Muslim student at SUNY New Paltz; Faris Giacaman, a Palestinian student at Bard College; Joel Kovel, a retired professor and author of a dozen books, the latest being “Overcoming Zionism”; Nada Khader, executive director of the WESPAC Foundation, and a Palestinian American who has served as a consultant for the UN Development Program in Gaza; Jack A. Smith, editor of the Activist Newsletter; Jane Toby, who teaches at SUNY/NP and founded the first Hudson Valley branch of Women in Black; Hannah Schwarzschild, representing the organization American Jews for a Just Peace; and Paul Rehm, a Christian pacifist who took part in a recent peace mission to Hebron in the West Bank. The MC is Donna Goodman.
