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Gideon Levy will be at the “Université Libre de Bruxelles” on Wednesday 24 March at 20.00 (Institut de Sociologie - Room Baugnet - Ground floor- 44, ave.Jeanne, 1050 Brussels).
“My modest mission is to prevent a situation in which many Israelis will be able to say, ‘We didn’t know’,” said Levy in an interview. He often criticizes what he describes as Israeli society’s “moral blindness” to the effects of its acts of war and occupation in Gaza and the West Bank. He has referred to the construction of settlements on private Palestinian land as “the most criminal enterprise in [Israel's] history”. He opposed the 2006 - Israel-Lebanon war, and the popular view that civilian casualties in that war were both inevitable and acceptable. He said in 2007 that the plight of Palestinians in the Gaza strip, which was under a strict blockade by Israel, made him ashamed to be an Israeli.
He is in Brussels at the occasion of the publication of his chronicles on Gaza (2006-2009) in French. The book will be available at the end of the evening.
He will speak on: “Israel and the occupation. What place for committed journalism?”
Discussants: Nicolas Zomersztajn, Regards and Claude Kandioty, Contact J
I’ll have the pleasure to moderate the evening.
Looking forward to meeting you on Wednesday evening.
Simone Susskind
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