The following is the transcript of an address I delivered yesterday to the Annual General Meeting of Solicitors International Human Rights Group (SIHRG) at the LawSociety, Chancery Lane in London on Wednesday 28 January.
The Corruption of the United Nations
The following is a shortened version of my presentation to the United Nations Youth & Students Association at LeicesterUniversityon 11 February 2007. The subject for debate was “The UN in the world today – relevant or relic?”
Address to Indian Muslim Federation – How To Defeat Terrorism
In the Grand Committee Room of the House of Commons on Monday 22 October, I was a principal guest speaker at a programme organised by the Indian Muslim Federation (UK). The following is the text of my remarks.
The Question of Human Nature
I’ve been traveling and have not had the time to service my blog for a while. In Seoul recently I made a short address to a conference organised by the Universal Peace Federation. The following is the text of what I said.
How Israeli Racism Eliminates Israeli Shame
I am posting below the text of one of the most powerful and moving speeches I have ever read in my whole life (of getting on for three score and ten). It was delivered on Saturday 17 June in Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, by Nurit Peled-Elhanan, one of Israel’s most eloquent and courageous peace activists.
Nurit is a lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and in 2001 she was the recipient of the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.
She was born in Israel, studied at the University of California in Los Angeles and the Sorbonne (University of Paris) and received her Ph.D at the Hebrew University. She specializes in Israeli educational materials … continue reading
Is Peace (in Israel-Palestine) Possible?
On Wednesday 11 April, at SOAS’s Brunei Gallery in London, I made a joint presentation with Professor Ilan Pappe, Israel’s leading and most influential “New” or “Revisionist” historian. His latest book is The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. The following is the text of my presentation: