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Round table “Anti-Zionist Jews and pro-Palestinian rights”.

This coming Wednesday, November 16, the Euro-Arab Foundation will host the round table “Anti-Zionist Jews and pro Palestinian rights” with the speeches of human rights activists, Yonathan Shapira, former military pilot of the Israeli army, and Eitan Bronstein Aparicio, educator, documentary filmmaker, co-founder and former president of “Zochrot”.

Tomorrow, Wednesday 16 November at 6 p.m., a round table will take place at the Euro-Arab Foundation (C/ San Jerónimo, 27) entitled
Round table “Anti-Zionist Jews and pro Palestinian people’s rights”.
and screening of a short documentary by Eitan Bronstein about the Nakba on Israel’s Independence Day.

With speeches by:

EITAN BRONSTEIN APARICIO, documentary educator. YONATHAN SHAPIRA, ex-military pilot in the Israeli army. Moderator: LUCIA LÓPEZ ARIAS, UGR researcher and specialist in the Israeli occupation of Palestine and author of several works on the subject.

Organised by: Department of Semitic Studies-UGR, Aly Tawfik and Department of Contemporary History of the University of Granada; Euro-Arab Foundation; FTI and BDS Granada.

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The speakers are two Israeli citizen opponents and anti-Zionist activists who defend the rights of the Palestinian people in their land and denounce the systematic violence exercised by the State of Israel against the Palestinians. This panel discussion will address the difference between Judaism, anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism.

Eitan Bronstein Aparicio, educator, documentary filmmaker, co-founder and former president of “Zochrot”, the first Israeli NGO to address the issue of the historical memory of the Nakba (genocide disaster of the Palestinian people in 1948) from the perspective of universal justice and international law. He is also co-founder of “De-Colonizer”, an Artistic Research Laboratory, whose objectives include raising awareness in Israeli society for the recognition of the rights of the native Palestinian people in their land.

The second is Yonathan Shapira, a former military pilot in the Israeli army. In 2003, he wrote and signed a letter, which was signed by 27 other Israeli pilots, expressing their refusal to carry out bombing orders over the West Bank and Gaza Strip. As a result, he was expelled from the army and has since been a strong advocate for the rights of the Palestinian people and for holding the Israeli military chain of command accountable for its war crimes against the Palestinians.

The Executive Secretary of the Euro-Arab Foundation, Pilar Aranda, has met with the President of the European Association for Cooperation with Palestine (ASECOP) Yehad Suleiman Rashid.

During the interview, Dr. Suleiman spoke about the extreme situation of the Palestinian population in Gaza and the need to put an end to the desperate situation suffered by the population. Pilar Aranda informed the president of ASECOP of the communiqué issued by the Spanish Network of the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation, of which Euro-Arab is a member, in which the demand for an immediate, just and lasting ceasefire in Gaza is expressed.

COMMUNIQUÉ DENOUNCING THE CURRENT SITUATION SUFFERED BY THE PEOPLE OF GAZA

The Executive Committee of the Spanish Network of the ALF, of which the Euro-Arab Foundation is a member, joins the campaign to denounce the situation in Gaza. The Anna Lindh Foundation, as stated by its president, André Azoulay, is at the heart of the human construction of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership, and rejects this fate of hatred and calls for the mobilisation of the 43 founding countries of the Union for the Mediterranean, to impose an immediate ceasefire.

We witness the extermination of innocents with indignation. Justifications, which may come from any of the parties involved, can have no hearing in the face of the massacre of civilians and the violation of human rights that is being committed in Gaza. Yesterday, we saw civilian positions and UN schools being attacked. Just today, we witnessed the attack on the UN’s own humanitarian aid convoys.

From here we claim that dialogue and knowledge of the other are the only weapons to bury conflicts and put an end to fear and pain.

This dialogue must be recovered, as has been supported since the beginnings of the Foundation, as happened on 22 May 2008, when the 43 countries united in this Network, including Palestine and Israel, jointly celebrated actions for dialogue between cultures, regardless of any politics, ideology and religion.

Today, the important thing is to denounce and act, as demanded by the Foundation’s management and many international forums, to stop this humanitarian disaster. We are also with the Israelis who suffer the threat of rockets, but today it is the million and a half civilians suffering in this open-air prison, now in flames, which is Gaza, who need immediate action.

We demand an immediate, just and lasting ceasefire. Now.