A lecture by Palestinian-Israeli member of the Knesset Jamal Zahalka, as part of Israeli Apartheid Week 2010 in Montreal
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Dr. Zahalkaâs lecture explores how apartheid operates within the state of Israel through the systemic racism and exclusion of its indigenous Palestinian citizens which is built into the very fabric of so-called Israeli democracy. By highlighting the oppressive realities faced by Palestinian-Israelis, such as continued evictions and house demolitions, the attack on Palestinian political organizing, a lack of access to land, water and other basic social services, and a two-tiered education system, Zahalka exposes the true nature of Israeli apartheid inside â48.
Speaker bio: Dr. Jamal Zahalka, MK is a member of the political leadership of Balad - The National Democratic Assembly in the Israeli Knesset (Parliament). Dr. Zahalka was one of the leaders and founders of the anti-occupation movement within the Green Line in the 1980s, and was imprisoned in 1972 for 2 years for being politically active. He is the Former General Director of the AHALI Center for Community Development, and a member of Education and Culture Committee, The Science and Technology Committee, and the Committee for War Against Drugs in the Knesset. Dr. Zahalka works as a pharmacist, speaks Arabic, Hebrew, and English, and currently resides in Kfar Qara with his wife and five children.
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