Check out this article Vancouver Media Co-Op published last week. For your information, the Media Co-Op is an excellent source for local, independent news. They’ve created an online space for high-quality, critical, democratic media in Vancouver, through their collectively run, viewer-funded, open-style publishing model.
On Friday, December 2nd, Canadian writer and photojournalist Jon Elmer spoke to eager students and community members who had gathered in great numbers at the University of British Columbia’s Woodward Library. He spoke about his experience and analysis of “ghetto Palestine”, the “context in which the political struggle of resistance to Israel is taking place”, investigating the challenges and opportunities for Palestinian resistance to the occupation. The event was sponsored by Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights at UBC, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, and Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign.
The complete talk can be found here.
Sovereignty is a central concept in modern international relations. Much of the development of this idea can be found in the writings of French Philosopher Jean Bodin, who stated that sovereignty was the “absolute and perpetual power vested in a commonwealth”. In last week’s readings, we discovered that Bodin laid the foundation for the idea of sovereignty, and that it was this important intellectual development that paved the road to the Westphalian revolution. Sovereignty is an important concept in the study of Middle Eastern interactions, and especially so when discussing the topic of Israel. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has long been entwined with, and has had a profound impact on the principle of sovereignty and the study of international relations today.
Tags: Israel-Palestine Conflict, Peace/War, Solidarity, Sovereignty
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