OVERCOMING ZIONISM events with author JOEL KOVEL

Joel Kovel: author of "Overcoming Zionism" Tour
(for a bio of Joel Kovel see below...)

Friday, Oct. 10

11:30 am Interview on KFAI radio show, Northern Sun News with Don Olson,
90.3fm and 106.7fm and streamed at www.kfai.org*.

1-3pm
U of M, Herbert Hanson Hall, Room 1-102. This is the new building next to
the Carlson Business School on Riverside Ave on the U of M’s West Bank.

4:15-5:30pm
Weekly outdoor vigil for Palestinian Rights, Snelling and Summit Aves in
St. Paul.

6pm Food and Presentation. Catered food from Shish starting at 6pm
followed by presentation. Macalester-Plymouth United Church, 1658 Lincoln
Avenue, adjacent to Macalester College, St. Paul.

Saturday, Oct. 11

6:30pm Presentation at University of MN, Duluth.

Sunday, Oct. 12

1pm Debate at Carleton College, Boliou 104, Northfield.

Perspectives on One-State vs. Two-State Solutions to the
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Presentation by Kovel and response by Seth
Greenberg, Carleton College Chair of Psychology and summertime resident of
Israel, to be followed by audience questions.

Monday, October 13

2:30 - 3:30pm
Presentation at Macalester College, student center/John B Davis Auditorium.

5 - 6:15pm
Presentation at William Mitchell Law School.

7pm
Al Aqsa event in New Brighton.

Biography

Joel Kovel is a well-known Jewish activist, scholar and writer on the
Middle East. Professor of Social Studies at Bard College in Annandale,
NY, Kovel has published ten books, including White Racism; The Enemy of
Nature; and his most recent, Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single
Democratic State in Israel/Palestine. In 1998, he was the Green Party
candidate for US Senator from New York.

In Overcoming Zionism, Kovel argues that the inner contradictions of
Zionism have led Israel to a "state-sponsored racism fully as incorrigible
as that of apartheid South Africa and deserving of the same resolution."

As Archbishop Desmond Tutu was disinvited and then reinvited to speak at
the University of St. Thomas, Kovel was facing the cancellation of the
distribution of Overcoming Zionism at the University of Michigan. This
due to pressure from a right wing Zionist group. Similar to the reaction
to the disinvitation of Bishop Tutu at St. Thomas, a successful campaign
at the University of Michigan and nationally was able to reverse the
decision and Kovel's book was distributed.

*Note: through Oct. 24, interview available in the KFAI archives.

Events organized by the Coalition for Palestinian Rights (CPR).
For updated information on events please check:

www.coalitionforpalestinianrights.wordpress.com

e-mail: Coalition_for_Palestinian_Rights@yahoo.com