'Death Threat' Professor Speaks at Nakba 60, Bristol

bristol | protests | feature Thursday April 24, 2008 10:14 by imcvol

Nakba 60 Conference - Saturday 26th April, Malcolm X Centre City Road, 11am to 5pm

Nakba 60 Conference - Saturday 26th April, Malcolm X Centre City Road, 11am to 5pm

Bristol Nakba 60 writes; Distinguished political science professor Ilan Pappe, who recently fled to Britain after receiving daily death threats in his native Israel, will be the guest of honour at a conference in Bristol later this month. Professor Pappe, whose parents were refugees from Hitler, was a senior lecturer at the University of Haifa – until his outspoken call for a boycott of Israeli universities until Israel recognises the rights of the Palestinians, led to his receiving death threats. Pappe, who now teaches at the University of Exeter, remains unrepentant. "I believe that things will change, only if Israel receives a strong message" he says, "a similar boycott was imposed on South Africa. It eventually led to the end of apartheid." Prof Ilan Pappe in Bristol speaking on Saturday 26th April at the Nakba 60 conference, organised by local campaign groups. 2008 is the sixtieth anniversary of the 'Nakba' (Arabic for 'the Catastrophe') when some three quarters of a million Palestinians were driven out of their homeland in 1948 during the founding of the state of Israel. Nakba 60 Conference, Saturday 26th April, Malcolm X Centre City Road, 11.00 am to 5.00 pm. Professor Ilan Pappe is expected to speak around midday.... Full article.

| Death Threat Professor to speak at Bristol Conference | Bristol NAKBA Conference | Related Links: Professor Ilan Pappe | Nakba (palestinecampaign.org) | Informative website by recent visitor to Palestine | Evidence of lost Palestine (palestineremembered.com) | Bristol Palestine Solidarity Campaign website |

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