Supporting the Boycott of Israel: Campaigning from Within

Palestine Societies at SOAS, University College London, ImperialCollege,

Kings College, Goldsmiths and University of Westminster

Together with

BRICUP

Invite you to

Supporting the Boycott of Israel: Campaigning from Within

Speaker: Anat Matar, Tel Aviv University

Chair: Mike Cushman, BRICUP and Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods

Wed 17^th February 2010

SOAS G2, 6pm

Anat Matar is a senior lecturer at the department of philosophy, Tel Aviv University. She specializes in 20^th century philosophy of language, in particular that of Wittgenstein, Dummett and Derrida. Anat Matar has been politically active for many years. She has taken part in movements resisting the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories, mainly those urging the refusal to serve in the army and the BDS movement. She is a founding member and the chair of The Israeli Association for the Palestinian Prisoners.

Mike Cushman is a member of the Department of Management at LSE where he researches the nature of digital and social exclusion. Mike has been politically active for many years but he has increasingly focused his activities around the area of Palestinian rights. In December 2008 he visited Gaza on the Free Gaza boat ‘Dignity’ on the last successful voyage before the Israeli invasion.