NYC: Israel, Gaza & Monitoring Human Rights During Wartime
Event
Monitoring human rights during wartime is a particularly daunting challenge, since the message and the messenger are often greeted by a hostile audience.
B’tselem, Israel's leading human rights organization, has for years led the way in monitoring and reporting on the state of human rights in the West Bank, Israel and Gaza. Since the Israeli army commenced Operation Protective Edge in July, many have praised the organization's attempts to humanize the dead and to fact-check both the Israeli army and Hamas evenhandedly. Others have called them traitors.
Please join New America NYC for an event with Hagai El-Ad, the CEO of B’tselem, for a conversation about the importance of documenting human rights abuses, the challenges B'tselem's workers face, and how the latest war with Gaza is affecting freedom of expression and civil society in Israel.
Participants:
Hagai El-Ad
Executive Director, B'Tselem: The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
@HagaiElAd
Lisa Goldman
PDirector, Israel-Palestine Initiative, New America
@lisang