Saturday, April 19, 2008

Norman Finkelstein Speaking at Evergreen


"Israel and Palestine: Roots of Conflict, Prospects for Peace"
Thursday, May 8th
7: 30pm

Lecture Hall 1

Students Free w/ID at TESC Bookstore

General $7 advance/$10 at the door
Available at Lastword Books & Online at Tickets West

Norman Finkelstein is an internationally respected author and scholar on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and other Jewish-related issues. He has a Ph.D in Political Science from Princeton University and has held faculty positions at numerous universities. His critical stance on Zionism, support for the Palestinian cause, and confrontational style has led his career to be marked by controversy.

In June 2007 he was denied tenure at DePaul University after much controversy. Alan Dershowitz, an opponent of Finkelstein, had written a letter to the chairmen of Finkelstein's department and sent other materials to many other faculty and administration at DePaul urging them to deny Finkelstein tenure. Finkelstein had been sharply critical of Alan Dershowitz’s book, “The Case for Israel,” saying that it was both false and partially plagiarized. DePaul denied outside pressure had any influence on their decision.

Dr. Finkelstein’s work has earned praise from figures such as Noam Chomsky, and the late Raul Hillberg, among the most prominent Holocaust scholars, who said about Finkelstein, "It takes an enormous amount of courage to speak the truth when no one else is out there."

His must recent books are "Beyond Chutzpah: On the misuse of anti-Semitism and the abuse of history" & "The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering" Both explore the use of the exploitation of the holocaust and the corruption of scholarship on the Israel-Palestine issue.

Visit Norman's website at NormanFinkelstein.com

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

The Evergreen State College Presents:
Let Me Stand Alone

The Journals of Rachel Corrie
Reception and reading with the Corrie Family

The Evergreen Library Underground
Wednesday, April 9 - 7pm
Light Refreshments Provided

A lifelong writer, Rachel Corrie (1979-2003) grew up in Olympia and was an Evergreen student. In Let Me Stand Alone, a collection of Rachel’s journals, we hear a young woman’s voice – intense and poetic– grappling with universal ideas as it chronicles a personal journey cut short. In 2003, Rachel was killed while protecting a civilian family’s home in Rafah, Palestine. The tragedy ended a life full of potential, yet never silenced a voice that longs to be heard.

Sponsored by The Writing Center, Friends of the Evergreen Library and Students Educating Students About the Middle East