Film Screening: The Palestine Exception

We invite you to attend an on-campus film screening of the award-winning documentary The Palestine Exception this Thursday 5/15 from 3pm - 4:30pm in LIB 201. 

 

You can watch the trailer for the film here. The screening is sponsored by the Departments of English, Sociology, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

 

As students across the country organize protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, decades-long taboos in academia around criticism of Israel – the “Palestine exception” – are shattered. This film features professors and students as they join calls for a ceasefire and divestment from companies that do business with Israel and face waves of crackdown from administrators, the media, the police and politicians. 

 

Students at CSULB and across the CSUs are currently participating in a hunger strike in solidarity with Palestinians facing starvation and ethnic cleansing in Gaza (See recent coverage in The Guardian). As with students and faculty across the country, they too are facing the "New McCarthyism" examined in the film.

 

We hope to see you at the screening this Thursday.