Negotiating and Litigating Discrimination in Israel-Palestine 2019

Event Date as Display String:

Monday, October 7, 2019, 4:30pm - 6:00pm

Location:

Wasserstein Hall, Room 2009, Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts
Ave., Cambridge

URL:

https://www.pon.harvard.edu/events/kelman-seminar-negotiating-litigating-discrimination-israel-palestine-2019/

Event Description:

Segregationist thinking continues to operate within policy and law,
even in states considered democratic, although it might not be
generated through the same legal mechanisms that Western liberalism
has come to condemn. The current aesthetics of legally permitted
segregation pose unique challenges in any attempt to combat it, while
at the same time, create ambiguous spaces due to internally
contradicting commitments that allow for some strategic negotiation
and litigation. The panelists seek to tackle these themes through the
case-study of Afula, a city in northern Israel, which over the last
summer decided to close off one of its public parks and limit entry
exclusively to its residents. Taken as a case of ethnic segregation,
the panelists will provide an account for the background conditions of
and the legal techniques used to pursue segregationist policies by
Israeli authorities, aiming at limiting Palestinian citizens' access
to otherwise open public spaces. They will also discuss the ways in
which these cases are received, negotiated and depicted in Israeli
society at large, within different media outlets and at the different
arenas of decision-making, from administrative authorities to the
judiciary.

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Monday, October 7, 2019 - 16:30 to 18:00

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