Date/Time
Date(s) - Saturday, May 15, 2021
10:00 am - 11:30 am


Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, (BDS) & Free Speech

Abby Martin

RECORDING AVAILABLE HERE

Join us to hear from journalist Abby Martin about her major legal challenge against the state of Georgia for banning her from speaking engagements due to her refusal to sign a pro-Israel loyalty oath. She will discuss the implications anti-BDS laws have on the First Amendment and why the pro-Palestine movement is on the front lines fighting for free speech in the US.

Ms. Martin believes that Israel is a settler-colonial state; that its goal is, and has always been, to kill or expel the Indigenous population, the Palestinians, so that Jewish colonizers can have an ethno-supremacist state. According to her, for non-Jews, Israel is an apartheid state. She believes that, in order to maintain a Jewish majority, Israel persecutes Palestinians similar to how Nazi Germany persecuted Jews.

Please direct questions about this event to mepn@mepn.org. 

Thank you to our forum co-host East Side Freedom Library, and sponsors, Jewish Voice for Peace – Twin Cities, Northfielders for Justice in Palestine


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