Yom Kippur Conversation with Omar Barghouti
Tzedek Chicago is proud to host a Yom Kippur afternoon conversation with Palestinian human rights defender Omar Barghouti, who will explore his notion of "ethical decolonization: a vision of Palestinian liberation from Israel's 75-year-old regime of settler-colonialism and apartheid." A crucial dimension of this process is what anti-Zionist Jewish partners to Palestinians call, "Jewish liberation from Zionism."
Ethical reconciliation is key to the pursuit of freedom, justice, dignity, and equality, and ultimately flows from repentance, reparation, and re-imagining identities beyond binaries. As Barghouti says, "This vision of common liberation is not an illusion or a utopian dream - it's possible, necessary, and attainable in our lifetime."
Omar Barghouti is a Palestinian human rights defender and co-founder of the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement for Palestinian rights. He is a co-recipient of the 2017 Gandhi Peace Award. He holds a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University and is pursuing a PhD in Philosophy (ethics) at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of, BDS: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights (Haymarket: 2011). His commentaries and views have appeared in variety of publications.
