It’s Bigger Than Palestine: Gaza, U.S. Complicity, and the Boomerang

Join Mark Braverman at The Jerusalem Fund for a lunchtime talk on Gaza, U.S. complicity, and Palestine’s boomerang effect
About this Event

The Jerusalem Fund invites you to a lunchtime lecture and discussion with Dr. Mark Braverman, author of Fatal Embrace: Christians, Jews, and the Search for Peace in the Holy Land and A Wall in Jerusalem: Hope, Healing, and the Struggle for Justice in Israel and Palestine.

Braverman will examine how Gaza has exposed the nature and scale of U.S. complicity in Israel’s project of dispossession, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. He will also consider what this means for American society itself. Drawing on Aimé Césaire’s concept of the “boomerang,” Braverman will discuss how the violence imposed on colonized peoples returns to shape the political, moral, and spiritual life of the societies that enable it. Braverman will address the context for the events of October 7 2023, U.S. power, Christian nationalism, Christian Zionism, the weaponization of antisemitism, and the repression of those who speak for Palestinian rights. He will discuss the heated discourse now taking place within the Christian and Jewish communities and in American society at large and ask what responsibilities fall on churches, faith communities, the academy, and civil society institutions in this moment.

This event is part of Mark Braverman’s East Coast lecture series, The Challenge to the Churches in a Time of Crisis, and is hosted by The Jerusalem Fund / Palestine Center in Washington, DC.

Lunch is included with registration.