[Antiracism] Fw: Combatants For Peace Monday Oct. 23 at Smith

[Marty Nathan]

Hello everyone,
Could you please circulate the following message to your email lists?
Many thanks, Elliot


Lecture Announcement: "Alternatives to Wars in the Middle East: A panel 
discussion by two members of Combatants for Peace" Monday, October 23, 7:30 
PM, Smith College, Neilson Browsing Room.
Yonatan Shapira is former Captain in the Israeli Air Force Reserves, who in 
2003 initiated a group of Israeli Air Force pilots who refused to fly attack 
missions on Palestinian territories. Bassam Aramim is a former member of 
Fatah who served a 7-year prison sentence after being arrested in Hebron 
when he was 17 years old. Both are now active in promoting dialogue for 
peace between Israel and Palestine. The Combatants for Peace tour is 
organized by Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace (FFIPP), an 
American-based network of faculty with an affiliated student network, 
dedicated to educating the academic community about the conflict in 
Palestine/Israel and promoting a just peace for Palestinians and Israelis 
(www.ffipp.org).
This lecture is sponsored by Smith College Lecture Fund, the Department of 
Anthropology and the Department of Economics, Smith College.




Elliot M. Fratkin PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Anthropology
Co-Director, African Studies Program
107 Wright Hall
Smith College
Northampton MA 01063
tel. 413-585-3338
fax 413-585-3389
efratkin at email.smith.edu
http://www.smith.edu/anthro/fratkin.html