Only open to UCLA ID Holders.
Tuesday, April 9, 202411:30 AM - 1:00 PM (Pacific Time)UCLA Law Room 1314
Co-organized by the UCLA Promise Institute for Human Rights and the UCLA School of Law. Co-sponsored by the UCLA International Institute and the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies,
About the Event
The Hamas-engineered massacre of October 7, 2023 stunned and shocked Israel and the Jewish world to the core. It triggered a massive Israeli military campaign in Gaza that has had devastating effect on its more than two million residents, including attacks leading to 30,000 people dead, mostly civilians. Supporters of Israel and the Palestinians are more bitterly divided than ever, around the world and especially on college campuses. What are the roots of today’s conflict? And what does it portend for the future of the region?
About the Speakers
Dr. Hussein Ibish is a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. He is a weekly columnist for The National (UAE), former columnist for Bloomberg, regular contributor to The New York Times and The Daily Beast, and frequent contributor to many other U.S. and Middle Eastern publications. He has made thousands of radio and television appearances and was the Washington, DC correspondent for the Daily Star (Beirut). His most recent book is What’s Wrong with the One-State Agenda? Why Ending the Occupation and Peace with Israel is Still the Palestinian National Goal (ATFP, 2009). Ibish was included in all three years (2011, 2012, and 2013) of Foreign Policy’s “Twitterati 100,” the magazine’s list of 100 “must-follow” Twitter feeds on foreign policy.
David N. Myers is a Distinguished Professor and holds the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at UCLA, where he serves as the director of the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy, and also directs the new UCLA Initiative to Study Hate. He previously served as chair of the UCLA History Department and as director of the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies. He is the author or editor of more than fifteen books in the field of Jewish history, including most recently American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, A Hasidic Village in Upstate New York, which won the 2022 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies. From 2018-2023, Myers served as President of the New Israel Fund.
DISCLAIMER: The views or opinions of our guest speakers and the content of their presentations do not necessarily reflect the views of the UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Hosting speakers does not constitute an endorsement of the speaker's views or opinions.
Sponsor(s): Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, UCLA International Institute, The Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law, UCLA Law