How Did We Get Here?
How Does This Conflict Affect World Peace?
New Perspectives on the Israel-Palestine Conflict

A lecture series for the general public featuring some of the nation's top
Middle East history scholars. An unprecedented collaboration between Arab,
Jewish and other professors.

The current situation in the Middle East is grim and confusing. The Israeli
Palestinian conflict continues to claim lives, and now the threat of armed
intervention in Iraq looms ahead. This is a subject filled with
preconceptions and misinformation. It is also an emotionally laden topic.
But few of us actually know the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,
and we're not getting much help from the media. To function as informed
citizens, we need to know more.

The South Bay Jewish Voice for Peace is responding to this need with a
lecture series on the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict presented by
Professors Joel Beinin (Stanford), George Bisharat (Hastings School of Law),
Stephen Zunes (University of San Francisco) and Mitchell Plitnick (A Jewish
Voice for Peace).