‘A Land With a People’ is a collection of personal stories, history, poetry, and art elevating rarely heard Palestinian and Jewish voices. The book began as a storytelling project of Jewish Voice for Peace-New York City and subsequently transformed into a theater project performed throughout the New York City area.
Upper Delaware Actions for a Free Palestine (UDAFP) is hosting a teach-in and author led discussion of the book on Thursday with editors and activists Esther Farmer and Rosalind Pollack Petchesky.
Tim Bruno spoke to Lauren Seikaly of UDAFP, a coalition of local community members.
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I think this show is an outrage. Lauren Sekeily is either misinformed or an outright liar. She was on another show on your radio station spouting the same story. I onjected but the hostess ignored me. I would suggest you ask someone who actually has studied the facts of the conflict to come on your station and correct the lies that were told here. The Arabs of Haifa were not “forced” out. In fact when the war broke out the Jewish community asked them to stay. It was the Grand Mufti who told them they must leave or would be killed by yheir own brothers. It is a very complicated story because there were some Arabs, who were forced to leave their homes, but it just so happens that the Haifa Arabs were not and there were many Arabs throughout Palestine or what was called Palestine in those days, many, who stayed and that are full citizens of Israel. The story is a very complicated one. I am willing to come on and tell it, but I think the way, Ms Seikaly tells it is just to stir up hatred of Israel and not create peace.
Thank you Judith Maidenbaum.
Logic and facts elude Lauren Sekeily .
Her twisted recounting of history is pathetically
just that – revisionist history.
Spewing anti Israel hatred and is another form of pure Anti Semitism .
Let no one be fooled by her repetition of utter lies . Ms.Sekeily’s mendacious words are a regurgitation of anti Jewish tropes that only the most ignorant consume .
Lauren Sekeily is a danger to our community and spreads hateful lies. She is not only antisemitic she is anti-American and I find it disguising that you give her so much air time to encourage her to continue to try and divide and brainwash our local population. She keeps trying that on her special media but luckily doesn’t have much engagement which luckily has made her ineffective in her goals. Please don’t continue to support her insanity it’s an embarrassment to your station.
I believe the refusal in 1948 by the Arab Nations to accept the UN proposition of the partition for Palestine, and the Arab nations attack on the new country of Israel was neglected to be mentioned by Lauren during her interview, in her reference to the Nakba. I believe this is a very significant ommission. This may lead an uneducated listener to believe that Israel, (who was attacked by a concerted and planned effort by the Arab nations) was the aggressor, which was not the case. There were many opportunities after that for a Palestinian state, but none were taken.
Why is Lauren speaking for Jewish people. ? Why have Palestinians refused Oslo? We would have peace since the 90’s. Jewish voice for peace is a marginal group and does not represent a large percentage of the Jewish people.
Apartheid/ colonialism is not Israel. These are distortions and should not be allowed to stand.
Palestinians seem to not see their part in continuing of war