The Architecture of Occupation ----------------- Abe Hayeem ---Sheffield PSC -----------------------------25 October 2011

Event times: 

Tue, 25/10/2011 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Location: 

St Matthews Carver Street, Sheffield, UK

Directions: 

Directions and map

Abe Hayeem

Housing and architecture are important in Israel and Palestine.  There is ethnic cleansing in parts of the Negev/Naqeb and East Jerusalem.  There is renewed settlement building in the Palestinian West Bank.  Abe Hayeem is a founding member of Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine.  He has written on the subject in the Guardian newspaper.

This is from one article.

Architecture and planning are instruments of the occupation, and constitute part of a continuing war against a whole people, whether as a minority within Israel's green line, or in the occupied territories. Since this involves dispossession, discrimination and acquisition of land and homes by force, against the Geneva conventions, it can be classified as participation in war crimes.

This promises to be an interesting and important meeting.  Come along, bring a friend.