EVENTS:
THE PUNISHMENT OF GAZA
By GIDEON LEVY
Published AUGUST 2010, VERSO
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LONDON EVENTS:
Sunday 6th March 2011
2pm – Gideon Levy in conversation with Johann Hari. Jewish Book Week 2011.
Booking and more details here: http://www.versobooks.com/events/106-gideon-levy-in-conversation-with-johann-hari
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/is-gideon-levy-the-most-hated-man-in-israel-or-just-the-most-heroic-2087909.html
Monday 7th March 2011
7pm – Israeli Society and the Occupation. Public lecture at LSE Middle East Centre. More details here: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2011/20110307t1800vD402.aspx
DUBLIN EVENT
Wednesday 9th March 2011
7pm – Public lecture and book launch organized by Irish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, at Trinity College, Dublin. More details here: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/98949
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Praise for THE PUNISHMENT OF GAZA:
“There are more terrible atrocities in the world than what is being done to the caged prisoners of Gaza, but it is not easy to think of a more cruel and cowardly exhibition of human savagery, fully supported by the US, with Europe trailing politely behind. Gideon Levy’s passionate and revealing account is an eloquent, even desperate, call to bring this shocking tragedy to an end, as can easily be done.”
– Noam Chomsky
“The story of Gideon Levy—and the attempt to deride, suppress or deny his words—is the story of Israel distilled. If he loses, Israel itself is lost.”
– Johann Hari, INDEPENDENT
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/is-gideon-levy-the-most-hated-man-in-israel-or-just-the-most-heroic-2087909.html
“An Israeli dedicated to saving his country's honour.”
– Nick Lezard, GUARDIAN
“Levy has a way with words that leads him to some brilliant indictments of Israel.”
– ELECTRONIC INTIFADA http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11173.shtml
“Levy has made it his exclusive mission ... to document the grim and brutal facts of the occupation, to tell the stories he knows Israelis do not want to hear ... To this shiny nation—democratic, prosperous, confident in its righteousness—Levy holds up Gaza like a mirror.”
– Ben Ehrenreich, Nation
http://www.thenation.com/article/154140/book-amos-gideon-levy
“Gideon Levy is among a small group of Israeli journalists giving a face and a voice to Palestinians in the world's most intractable conflict.”
– MONTREAL GAZETTE
“Levy ... deals with the politically and emotionally charged subject of the hardships of Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza, and their conflicts with the Israeli military and Jewish settlers.”
–rabble.ca
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/amjohal/2010/09/moral-blindness-interview-gideon-levy
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The Israeli assault on Gaza in early 2009 and the Israeli attack on the Gaza aid flotilla in May 2010 provoked a deluge of coverage and discussion on the war, with news channels charting every missile, every rocket and every death. Tens of thousands have marched in London to protest the war and the attack on the aid convoy, and during both events the airwaves have been full of debate on the legality, morality and strategic sense of Israeli actions. Journalists have been duly despatched to Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Sderot, and the Gaza border to report on the conflict. Yet one voice that is often strikingly absent from the coverage is that of the Palestinians living in Gaza themselves.
Gideon Levy is an award-winning and internationally acclaimed Israeli journalist. He has been reporting from the occupied territories for the Israeli newspaper, Ha'aretz, for over 20 years. The Punishment of Gaza takes us back to Israel's 2005 withdrawal from Gaza to chart the events leading up to the bloody assault of 2009. Levy's powerful journalism shows how the brutality at the heart of Israel's occupation of Palestine found its most complete expression to date in the collective punishment of Gaza's residents. The result is both a set of heartbreaking human stories, an incisive analysis of Israeli policy, and an impassioned plea for Israel to end the occupation.
Levy’s work combines piercing political analysis with a journalist's drive to tell the stories of those suffering under the Israeli occupation. Levy humanises the victims of war, to tell us their names, their birthdays and what they ate for breakfast. Yet Levy does not speak primarily to, or for Palestinians. His aim is to hold a mirror up to Israeli society, asking Israelis to face up to the everyday brutality of the occupation and to ensure that neither Israelis nor their international supporters can ever say "we didn't know".
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GIDEON LEVY is a prominent Israeli journalist. For over twenty years he has covered the Israel–Palestine conflict, in particular the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, for the Israeli newspaper HA’ARETZ in his column “Twilight Zone.”
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ISBN: 978 1 84467 601 9 / US$15.95 / £8.99 / CAN$20 / Paperback / 160 pages
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