Special Events
Safety through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Antisemitism
A discussion with Shane Burley and Ben Lorber, moderated by Sarah Mayorga
February 3, 2025 | 4-5:30pm | International Lounge, Usdan (Brandeis ID required)
"Safety through solidarity means we cannot truly end antisemitism by building higher walls, fortifying nation-states, hiring more police or militarized security at synagogues, or going along with politics that scapegoat activists of color and divide communities. It means we must fight antisemitism at its root by building powerful mass movements to transform society’s underlying inequality, exploitation, and alienation....It means we must recognize the intersectional links between antisemitism and capitalism, anti-Blackness, anti-LGBTQ bigotry, and other structures of oppression, and build relationships of co-resistance between Jews and other marginalized groups." --From Safety through Solidarity by Shane Burley and Ben Lorber
Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, the Education Program, the Legal Studies Program, the Department of Sociology, the Department of Journalism, the Department of Women's and Gender Studies, and the Dean of Arts and Sciences
Imagining a "We" in Israel-Palestine
A conversation with Maurice Ebileeni and Ayelet Ben-Yishai
March 26, 2025 | 4-5:30pm | Location Rapaporte Treasure Hall (Brandeis ID required)
In the fall of 2022, Ayelet Ben Yishai and Maurice Ebileeni – both faculty members in the English department at the University of Haifa – co-authored an op-ed. While in agreement on much of its content, they faced an unforeseen difficulty in forging an authorial “we” to speak in one voice on equal terms. Ben-Yishai, a Jewish Israeli, and Ebileeni, a Palestinian and a citizen of Israel, have since engaged in a candid (and mostly difficult) dialogue, writing to and with each other, testing out the possibilities for a common existence for themselves as colleagues and friends, and for Israelis and Palestinians in general – “from the river to the sea.” The dialogue is ongoing but has, since last year, taken on a new urgency and assumed the form of a work-in-progress. This event invites the audience to join in, exploring questions of identity, culture, complicity, Zionism, the occupation, Palestinian displacement, history, the present, and the future.