{"id":2597,"date":"2012-05-16T09:10:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T23:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/?p=2597"},"modified":"2012-05-16T09:11:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T23:11:34","slug":"beyond-tribal-loyalties-personal-stories-of-jewish-peace-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/?p=2597","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Tribal Loyalties: Personal Stories of Jewish Peace Activists."},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mr_social_sharing_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 --><\/div><p>Interested parties are invited to an event that the NSW Parliamentary Friends of Palestine are hosting to discuss the soon to be released book <em>Beyond Tribal Loyalties: Personal Stories of Jewish Peace Activists.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>1-3pm, Friday 15 June 2012<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n <strong>Waratah Room, NSW Parliament House<\/strong><br \/>\n <strong>Macquarie St, Sydney<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/JAO__A5_Flyer.pdf\">(Download Flyer pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Beyond Tribal Loyalties<\/em> is a unique collection of twenty-five personal stories of Jewish Peace Activists from Australia, Canada, Israel, the United Kingdom and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The stories focus on the complex and intensely personal journey that Jewish activists go through to free themselves from unquestioning support of Israel&#8217;s illegal occupation of the West Bank and institutional suppression of Palestinian human rights.<\/p>\n<p>At the event we will hear from the editor of the book, <strong>Avigail Abarbanel<\/strong>. Avigail is the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors and a former sergeant in the Israeli army, having served during Israel&#8217;s 1982 invasion of Lebanon. She is now a psychotherapist and an activist for Palestinian rights.<\/p>\n<p>Also speaking will be <strong>Vivienne Porzsolt<\/strong> from Jews Against the Occupation and <strong>Peter Slezak<\/strong> from Independent Australian Jewish Voices, both of whom contributed chapters to the book.<\/p>\n<p>Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event, courtesy of Gleebooks. Light refreshments will be served.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to circulate to anyone you think may be interested.<\/p>\n<p>Numbers will be limited, so if you are interested in attending please RSVP to <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">David.Shoebridge (at) parliament.nsw.gov.au<\/span> or call 9230 3030.<\/p>\n<p>Hope to see you there.<\/p>\n<p>David Shoebridge<br \/>\n Co-convener<br \/>\n NSW Parliamentary Friends of Palestine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mr_social_sharing_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 --><\/div>\n<p>Interested parties are invited to an event that the NSW Parliamentary Friends of Palestine are hosting to discuss the soon to be released book Beyond Tribal Loyalties: Personal Stories of Jewish Peace Activists.<\/p>\n<p>1-3pm, Friday 15 June 2012 Waratah Room, NSW Parliament House Macquarie St, Sydney<\/p>\n<p>(Download Flyer pdf)<\/p>\n<p>Beyond Tribal Loyalties is a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-messages","odd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2597"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2601,"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions\/2601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}