APN Board Member Professor Michael Walzer will speak about the years after WWII as
three secular, leftist national liberation movements in Israel, India and Algeria succeeded in winning
independence and establishing states.
APN briefing call with Israeli democracy expert
Mordechai (Motta) Kremnitzer
Wednesday, January 6th Time: 1:00 pm (Eastern Time)
Professor Kremnitzer discussed the recent draft legislation aimed at silencing Israeli progressive organizations such as Peace Now, as well as other anti-democratic measures initiated by the Israeli government and the Knesset. He assessed the overall state of Israeli democracy as it faces a governmental assault on civil society, extreme right wing violence and intimidation, as well as a surge in hate speech.
The recorded call is available here.
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Professor Mordechai Kremnitzer is Vice President of Research at the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) and Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law, where he served as Dean. He is an expert on criminal, military, and public law, and widely considered as a leading expert on Israeli democracy and democracy education. At the IDI, he has been leading the following projects: Constitutional Principles and their Implementation, National Security and Democracy, Arab-Jewish Relations, and Proportionality in Public Policy.
Thousands of Israelis, Jews and Arabs, participated in a Peace Now-sponsored march Saturday
night, December 19. Starting at the Likud headquarters in Tel Aviv and ending in a rally at the Yitzhak Rabin
memorial, marchers demonstrated against the bigotry, intolerance and incitement of Israel’s right wing,
targeting progressive organizations and activists. Participants accused Benjamin Netanyahu’s government of
setting a belligerent public tone, which inspires and encourages right-wing organizations and pundits to
further escalate the discourse.
Peace Now activists carried signs saying “The Right will not Silence Me,” and “Drive away
the Darkness; Stop the Fascism” as well as stickers saying: “I too am Breaking the Silence,” reference to the
anti-occupation soldiers’ organization that is currently the target of right-wing attacks.
At a TED-styleStyle session, APN"s Lara Friedman spoke on the question “What do WE
(Israelis) need from the relationship with YOU (American Jews)”?
Tuesday, December 1st
5:30pm to 7pm
Room 407 of the Marvin Center (800 21st Street NW)
Join us for an event on Yitzhak Rabin's legacy, which will include a brief overview of Rabin's life and his assassination, followed by Ori Nir speaking about his experience as a journalist on the ground during the Rabin era, the importance of the Rabin legacy, and getting to two states.
Click here for the Facebook invitation
APN's Rabbi Alana Suskin and her co-panelist Dov Waxman speak at Open Hillel's teach-in about the Jewish tradition of dissent and the changing views of Israel as regards the occupation among American Jews
"You don't support countries by enabling behavior that will harm them." -@RabbiSuskin #OpenFederations #JFNAGA
— Open Hillel (@OpenHillelNow) November 8,
2015
Please join us for a briefing call on Wednesday, November 4th, at 3:00 PM (Eastern Time) with the leaders of APN, the New Israel Fund, J Street, Ameinu and T’ruah. The call, on the anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, will bring together the five organizations to help unite uniting progressive Americans in a solemn demand for a peaceful and democratic Israel has never been more necessary.
The call will bring together Daniel Sokatch, the CEO of the News Israel Fund, Jeremy Ben-Ami, the President of J Street, Rabbi Jill Jacobs, the Executive Director of T’ruah, and Debra DeLee, the President and CEO of Americans for Peace Now.
The call will be moderated by JJ Goldberg of the Forward.
To join the call, RSVP here, and you will receive a call-in number with an individual pin.
On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the assassination of Israel’s Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin, please join APN for a briefing call on Monday, November 2nd, at 2:00 pm Eastern Time,
with Dan Ephron, the author of a new investigative book on the murder.
In Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel, Ephron tells the parallel stories of Rabin and his assassin, Yigal Amir, during the two years leading up p to the murder, and sets the scene to the two decades that followed.
Ephron is an award-winning writer, who has served as the Jerusalem bureau chief for Newsweek and the Daily Beast, and now lives in New York City.
The details of the call are as follows:
As we mark the 20th anniversary of Yitzhak Rabin's assassination, APN supporters in the Washington
DC metropolitan area are invited to join us on November 5th at 7PM at the DC JCC, for an evening of conversation
and remembrance honoring Rabin, his legacy and leadership. Particularly at this time, it is important to
commemorate an Israeli leader who had the courage to lead his people toward peace.
Led by the JCRC of Greater Washington, and co-sponsored by Americans for Peace Now, the evening will feature Knesset Member Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin, a former assistant to Rabin, a current member of the Zionist Union, and a passionate activist for Rabin's legacy.
For more information on this event and to RSVP click here: http://www.jcouncil.org/site/Calendar/1759717568?view=Detail&id=109901