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After October 7th: A Political Vision for Israel-Palestine (Vancouver)
April 17 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Wednesday, April 17th
Temple Sholom, 7190 Oak Street, Vancouver
Featuring Gil Murciano, Iran expert and CEO of Mitvim
and Uri Weltmann, National Field Organizer of Standing Together
The horrific terror attacks perpetrated by Hamas on October 7th and the ensuing Israel-Hamas war have brought anguish, pain, and despair to two nations already mired in conflict.
At a time when concerned Canadians desperately seek alternatives to the conventional wisdom of endless terrorism and occupation, the New Israel Fund of Canada brings to Vancouver two civil society leaders with better answers: the foreign policy experts of Mitvim – The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies and the Jewish-Arab grassroots movement of Standing Together.
What did – and didn’t – change about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after October 7th and the Gaza war? Is US President Biden’s push for a two-state solution realistic? Is Jewish-Palestinian cooperation even possible? How do the Arab nations of the Abraham Accords factor in? And where can Canada help?
Join us to hear from Gil Murciano, Iran expert and CEO of Mitvim, Uri Weltmann, national organizer of Standing Together, and Temple Sholom moderator Maayan Kreitzman about how Israel can navigate the current quagmire to a political solution for a more peaceful, shared future for Israelis and Palestinians alike.
Co-presented by Temple Sholom.
Our Speakers
Gil Murciano is the CEO of the Israel-based think-tank Mitvim – the Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies. His diverse experience with the geopolitics of the Middle-East is the basis upon which he experiments with core concepts of global security and foreign policy. Between 2017-2021, he served as an expert on Israel’s foreign policy and national security at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) and led a Berlin-based policy initiative which aims to turn members of the Middle-Eastern diaspora into foreign policy advisers (Techne). He also served as a Fox Fellow at Yale University and still serves as a contributing member to the Israeli-Arab King’s College-based Atkin Fellowship Network. He received his PhD from the Freie Universität Berlin. His dissertation analyses the influence of honor as a distinct factor in peace negotiations in the Middle East. Before moving to Berlin, he worked as a senior foreign policy analyst at the Tel-Aviv-based Reut Institute for Strategic Thinking (currently known as The Reut Group).
Mitvim – The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies is a foreign policy think tank, established in 2011, whose mission is to improve Israel’s foreign policy, promote Israel’s regional belonging in the Middle East, Europe, and the Mediterranean, and advance Israeli-Palestinian peace.
Uri Weltmann is National Field Organizer for Standing Together, and a founding member of the movement in 2015. A long-time peace and anti-occupation activist, he also has a background in neighborhood community organizing and LGBT political organizing. Born 1984, he lives in Tel-Aviv with his partner and their two daughters. A teacher by profession, he enjoys Math and Marxism.
Standing Together is a grassroots movement mobilizing Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel in pursuit of peace, equality, and social and climate justice.
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