Hear from Israeli historian Ilan Pappe, Palestinian journalist Rami G. Khouri, labor leader and political strategist Harris Gruman, and MAPA’s Brian Garvey, about AIPAC and the Democratic Party.

We will discuss the history of AIPAC, the funding of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, and the power of AIPAC in the Democratic Party and the US Congress.

Ilan Pappé is a professor at the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter, having received his BA the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1979 and D. Phil from the University of Oxford in 1984. His research focuses on the modern Middle East and in particular the history of Israel and Palestine. He has also written on multiculturalism, Critical Discourse Analysis and on Power and Knowledge in general.   His books include The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006) and Lobbying for Israel on Both Sides of the Atlantic (2024).

Rami G. Khouri is a Palestinian-American academic and journalist whose family resides in Beirut, Amman, and Nazareth. During his 50-year career in journalism across the Middle East he was Editor of the Jordan Times and the Daily Star (Beirut) newspapers, and contributed reporting and opinion pieces from the Middle East to the Financial Times, NPR, BBC radio, and other outlets.

Harris Gruman is executive director of the SEIU Massachusetts State Council, co-leader of the Raise Up Massachusetts Coalition and former executive director of Neighbor to Neighbor MA Education Fund.

Brian Garvey is incoming executive director of Massachusetts Peace Action and is recently returned from protesting at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago; see his article Dispatch from Chicago: There is a Breaking Point.

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Cosponsored by If Not Now and Interfaith Ceasefire