Gideon Levy Public Lecture - Mount Eden Memorial
Hall
NZ Palestine Solidarity Network are
hosting Gideon Levy in Auckland New Zealand on 3 December @
3PM.
Gideon Levy is a Haaretz columnist and a member
of the newspaper's editorial board. This will be his first
time in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Levy joined Haaretz in
1982, and spent four years as the newspaper's deputy editor.
He is the author of the weekly Twilight Zone feature, which
covers the Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza over
the last 25 years, as well as the writer of political
editorials for the newspaper.
Levy was the recipient of
the Euro-Med Journalist Prize for 2008; the Leipzig Freedom
Prize in 2001; the Israeli Journalists’ Union Prize in
1997; and The Association of Human Rights in Israel Award
for 1996.
His new book, The Punishment of Gaza, has
just been published by Verso Publishing House in London and
New York.
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