“After Zionism” events hit London

I’ll soon be speaking at two major events in London for my just released book, After Zionism.

21 August at the Frontline Club:

With a new coalition formed in Israel, a prospective reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah and a new leader in Egypt it could be said the century-long Israeli–Palestinian conflict is entering a new chapter.

The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, called off early elections after a deal was reached between his Likud party and the opposition Kadima party. Five years after Hamas took power in Gaza there are signs of a shaky reconciliation between them and Fatah that could lead to elections. There is concern in Israel about the growing power and influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

Across the world, the one-state solution is now openly discussed as a possible outcome. We will be bringing together an expert panel to explain the implications of these political shifts.

Chaired by… Tim Llewellyn, the BBC’s Middle East Correspondent for ten years, during which time he covered the Lebanese civil war, the Iranian Revolution, the Iran-Iraq war, the First Gulf War and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Since leaving the BBC in 1992, he has been a regular broadcast and print commentator on Middle East politics.

With:

Antony Loewenstein, an Australian freelance journalist, author and blogger. He has written for… The Guardian,… Haaretz, the BBC,… The Sydney Morning Herald… and others. He is author of… My Israel Question… and… The Blogging Revolution,… and co-editor of… After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine. He is a research associate at the University of Technology, Sydney’s Australian Centre for Independent Journalism.

Dimi Reider, an Israeli journalist and blogger. His work has appeared in… The New York Times,… The New York Review of Books,The Guardian,… Foreign Policy,… Haaretz… and… The Jerusalem Post. He is also a co-founder and contributing editor of… +972 Magazine. His translation of… Yehouda Shenhav‘s new book,… Beyond the Two State Solution: A Jewish political essay… is forthcoming in September with Polity Press.

Ahmed Moor, a Palestinian-American, born in the Gaza Strip, he was a Beirut-based journalist before he moved to Cairo where he… covered the Egyptian revolution. He is co-editor of After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine.… His writing has been published in… the… Los Angeles Times,… The Washington Post,… The Boston Review,… Al… Jazeera English,… The Guardian, the… San Francisco Chronicle,… Mondoweiss,… the Huffington Post… and others. In 2012, he became a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow.

Ghada Karmi, a leading British-Palestinian academic and writer. Currently she is co-director of the European Centre of Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter. She is a frequent media commentator on Middle Eastern issues. She is the author of a memoir,… In Search of Fatima; a Palestinian story. Her most recent book is… Married to another man: Israel’s dilemma in Palestine.

22 August at SOAS’ Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy:

Antony Loewenstein and Ahmed Moor will discuss their new book ”˜After Zionism’ at SOAS on Weds Aug 22 (6.30pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre)

After Zionism… brings together some of the world’s leading thinkers on the Middle East question to dissect the century-long conflict between Zionism and the Palestinians, and to explore possible forms of a one-state solution.Time has run out for the two-state solution because of the unending and permanent Jewish colonisation of Palestinian land. Although deep mistrust exists on both sides of the conflict, growing numbers of Palestinians and Israelis, Jews and Arabs are working together to forge a different, unified future. Progressive and realist ideas are at last gaining a foothold in the discourse, while those influenced by the colonial era have been discredited or abandoned. Whatever the political solution may be, Palestinian and Israeli lives are intertwined, enmeshed, irrevocably.This daring and timely collection includes essays by Omar Barghouti, Diana Buttu, Jonathan Cook, Joseph Dana, Jeremiah Haber, Jeff Halper, Ghada Karmi, Saree Makdisi, John Mearsheimer,… Ilan Pappe, Sara Roy and Phil Weiss.

Antony Loewenstein… is an independent Australian journalist, activist and blogger. He is the author of two bestselling books,… My Israel Question… and The Blogging Revolution, co-editor of… Left Turn… and has written for the Guardian, the… Nation,… Huffington Post,… Haaretzi… and other prominent publications. He is currently working on a book and documentary about disaster capitalism. He lives in Sydney, Australia.

Ahmed Moor… is a Palestinian American journalist, blogger and activist and a Soros Fellow. He has written for the… Washington Post,… Los Angeles Times,… Huffington Post, the… Guardian… and… Al Jazeera English… and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

This event is free to attend and no registration required.

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