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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2>(please forward)</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff size=3><FONT size=4>Prof. Joel
Kovel</FONT>, author of</FONT></STRONG> <BR> <BR></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff
size=4><STRONG><EM>Overcoming Zionism<BR>Creating a Single Democratic State in
Israel/Palestine</EM></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Speaking this week:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=5><STRONG>Thur October 29</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#ff0000 size=4><STRONG>Noon</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT color=#ff0000 size=4><STRONG>Harvard Law School, Pound
335 <BR></STRONG></FONT>Sponsored by Justice for Palestine, a Harvard Law
School Student Organization</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#ff0000 size=4><STRONG>7pm</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=normb><FONT color=#ff0000 size=4><STRONG>E5 Forum: E5 in
Chinatown </STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=normb></SPAN><SPAN class=normb><FONT size=2>(fifth floor of 33
Harrison Ave - </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=normb><FONT size=2>near the Downtown Crossing
subway)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=normb><FONT size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=normb><FONT size=2>E5 Forum is very comfortable with having as
few as five and as many as<BR> fifty people at an event. The point of the
event is not the numbers<BR> but, in the spirit of the Social Forum
process, building productive<BR> social relationships across political and
thematic differences - hence<BR> the comfort with a small audience. After
the event - at around 9pm -<BR> we usually all go out for dinner at a
nearby restaurant. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=normb><FONT size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=normb><FONT color=#0000ff size=4><STRONG>Friday October
30</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=normb><FONT
color=#ff0000><STRONG>6:30pm</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=normb><FONT color=#ff0000><STRONG>MIT, Room
4-337</STRONG></FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>Sponsored by MIT Student Group <A
href="mailto:Palestine@MIT">Palestine@MIT</A>, <A
href="mailto:pal_exec@mit.edu">pal_exec@mit.edu</A> </FONT></SPAN><FONT
size=2><BR> <BR>For more information: Bostonians for One Democratic
State, 617 738-8029 <A
href="mailto:peace@texnology.com">peace@texnology.com</A></FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV>[You'll find Prof Kovel a deeply humane thinker, who brings his background
as a psychoanalyst to</DIV>
<DIV>an understanding of the bad conscience and moral dilemmas brought
by the Zionist project. </DIV>
<DIV>As a result of his understanding, and his support for Universalist values,
he supports the solution </DIV>
<DIV>that many feel is the most likely to build a lasting peace in the Middle
East: One Democratic State with equal rights for all.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Taking this stand has taken bravery and a personal toll: First
the attempt by U Michigan Press press to suppress the distribution of his
book (which was rescinded after widespread support for his book and press
freedom by the academic</DIV>
<DIV>community at large), and more recently with his firing from Bard
College.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I hope you'll come to one of these events to support Prof. Kovel and to
enjoy his wisdom.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#ff0000>(Dinner with booksigning and conversation after the MIT
talk is planned. Please let me</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#ff0000>know if you would like to attend. rsvp</FONT>: <A
href="mailto:amyh@texnology.com">amyh@texnology.com</A>)</DIV></DIV>
<DIV>-- Amy Hendrickson]</DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Background: </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff>OVERCOMING ZIONISM, BY JOEL
KOVEL<BR></FONT></STRONG>'This book is absolutely fundamental for those who
reject the unfortunate confusion between Jews, Judaism, Zionism and the State of
Israel -- a confusion which is the basis for systematic manipulation by the
imperialist power system. It convincingly argues in favour of a single secular
state for Israelis and Palestinians as the only democratic solution for the
region.' Samir Amin, Director of the Third World Forum <A
title=http://www.amazon.com/Overcoming-Zionism-Creating-Democratic-Palestine/dp/0745325696
href="http://www.amazon.com/Overcoming-Zionism-Creating-Democratic-Palestine/d...">http://www.amazon.com/Overcoming-Zionism-Creating-Democratic-Palestine/d...</A><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Kovel demonstrates that the Zionist project has been from its outset a
colonial one, and thus an aberration from the traditions</DIV>
<DIV>of respect for human rights, including those of Judaism itself. The primary
conclusion he draws is that the road to peace is</DIV>
<DIV>the dismantling of Zionist ideology as a whole and putting in its place a
construct based on Universal human rights.<SPAN
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2></FONT><BR>Lecture
(video) by Joel Kovel, "OVERCOMING ZIONISM"<BR><A
title=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7781027522490937279&hl=en
href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7781027522490937279&hl=en">http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7781027522490937279&hl=en</A><BR></P></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>STATEMENT OF JOEL KOVEL REGARDING HIS TERMINATION BY BARD COLLEGE<BR><A
title=http://www.joelkovel.org/#bardstatement
href="http://www.joelkovel.org/#bardstatement">http://www.joelkovel.org/#bardstatement</A></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV>Biography</DIV>
<DIV><A
href="http://www.joelkovel.org/joelkovel.html">http://www.joelkovel.org/joelkovel.html</A></DIV></BODY></HTML>