1. Two Aspects of Peace Activism
Taking Care of the Needy
e.g. the “Cut Man” in the ring
Challenging Power
e.g. work to abolish boxing

2. What is Peace?
Peace is Struggle
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
Frederick Douglas, 1857

3. Zionism (the Power)

4. Zionism Jewish Colonial Settler Movement To Establish a Jewish State
Official Start in Basil, Switzerland, 1897
Required Ethnic Cleansing of Indigenous Peoples (Palestinians)
Reference: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Prof. Ilan Pappe

5. Example of Zionist Intent (1 of 3)
“The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war”
David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s founding father and first prime minister, 1937

6. Example of Zionist Intent (2 of 3)
"Neither Jewish ethics nor Jewish tradition can disqualify terrorism as a means of combat ... First and foremost, terrorism is for us a part of the political battle"
Yitzhak Shamir, seventh prime minister, 1943

7. Example of Zionist Intent (3 of 3)
It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion clearly and courageously ... [that] there is no Zionism, colonialization [sic], or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands”
Ariel Sharon, Minister of Defense,then prime minister, 1998

9. Long-Held Myths (1 of 2)
Most Famous
”A Land Without People for a People Without a Land”
FALSE!!!

10. Also FALSE !!! Most Popular
Long-Held Myths (2 of 2)
Most Popular
”Jews and Arabs have been fighting each other for 2000 years, and there’s nothing we can do about such a history”
Also FALSE !!!

11. How Media Shapes Public “Understanding”
Word Choice
Placement
Lack of Verification
Decontextualization
Coercion or Censorship

12. Tactics Two Rules No. 1: Never Compete Where your Opponent is Strong
No: 2: Repeat Rule No.1

15. Food for Thought
"The crime against the Palestinian people is being committed by a Jewish state with Jewish soldiers using weapons displaying Jewish religious symbols, and with the full support and complicity of the overwhelming mass of organised Jews worldwide. But to name Jews as responsible for this crime seems impossible to do."

17. Basem Abu Rahme,

18. Time for Q and A
Let ‘em fly