[rad-green] “Transcending the Israel Lobby At H ome and Abroad” conference, Washington, DC May 29

From: Washington Report on Middle East Affairs <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 10:44 AM
Subject: Step Aside, AIPAC. We Have the Speakers Americans Want to Hear!
Announcing new speakers at the May 29 Transcending the Israel Lobby
Conference
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Click here to get your tickets to the May 29 conference and/or the May 28
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*Expert speakers challenge AIPAC’s harmful agenda at “Transcending the
Israel Lobby 2020” conference*


The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is currently holding
its annual policy conference in DC. Mike Bloomberg is the only 2020
Democratic presidential candidate to attend the annual conference. Sen.
Bernie Sanders tweeted, “I remain concerned about the platform AIPAC
provides for leaders who express bigotry and oppose basic Palestinian
rights. For that reason I will not attend their conference.” On March 1,
right-wing President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić, who has never apologized
for his nation's genocide against its Muslim minority, took the stage at
AIPAC, saying  “There are many things that you can define as a common
denominator for Serbs and Jews.”

There is hope—more and more Americans, including younger Jews, are
distancing themselves from the right-wing AIPAC agenda. The following
expert analysts are confirmed speakers
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on May 29, at the only national conference challenging the Israel lobby’s
repressive agenda while proposing better alternatives for America:
*Legendary rock musician Roger Waters *discusses the results of artist
boycotts of Israel and how artists can educate their fans.
*Gideon Levy, Haaretz columnist and “Dean of Israeli journalism,” *examines
the nature of democracy in Israel, questions about human rights, the
occupation and apartheid, and his views on the trajectory of Israeli and
U.S. news media.

*Professor Juan Cole* analyzes the Israel lobby’s push for the U.S. to
attack Iran and proposes better alternative paths for U.S. engagement.

*Professor Joseph Massad *addresses the prospects of the global movement
for justice for Palestinians.

*Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb *reveals why Zionism is now a failing ideology among
the younger generation of American Jews.

*Professor Stephen Walt*, co-author of *The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign
Policy*
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will provide an update on the Israel lobby’s influence over U.S. foreign
policy, and advance more sensible, productive alternatives.

*Media expert Sut Jhally *analyzes whether American news organizations are
getting better or worse in the quality, balance and accuracy of their
Middle East reporting.

*Reverend Don Wagner *will provide insight into the misleading promises and
teachings Christian Zionist leaders are making in concert with Israel lobby
operatives to compel Christian evangelical support at the ballot box.

*Writer and activist Sumaya Awad *discusses Canary Mission blacklisting and
other grave threats facing college students fighting for human rights in
Palestine.

*Student activist Aman Aberra *will discuss efforts by the Trump
administration Department of Education to quash free speech on college
campuses by equating criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism.

For more information, visit *IsraelLobbyCon.org
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