The Regina Anti-Capitalist Discussion Group and Briarpatch welcome you to attend a presentation by JOEL KOVEL:

A TURNING POINT IN THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL?

When:             Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 7:00—9:00 p.m.

Where:            Regina Unitarian Centre (Located at the Corner of Angus Street and College Avenue)

Abstract: Recent events confirm that a kind of sea-change has occurred in the fortunes of the Israeli State, with rapidly declining legitimacy accompanied by the growth of Boycott-Divestment-Sanction movements to the point of sounding a major alarm in Zionist circles. This talk will review the evidence for this and more fundamentally, assess its limits and possibilities. These depend in part upon the basic strategic understanding and long-range goals adopted by people in the Palestine solidarity movements.

Bio: JOEL KOVEL was trained as a physician and psychiatrist, but left these fields in order to be more politically active. He has written ten books, the two latest of which - The Enemy of Nature and Overcoming Zionism – are about the issues that concern him the most: contending with the ecological crisis, and seeking justice in Palestine. He has run for the US Senate on the Green Party line and sought the party's presidential nomination.  Currently he edits the ecosocialist journal, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, and does what he can to bring about a post-capitalist and post-Zionist world.