This Saturday, January 11, from noon to 2:30 p.m. the Connecticut-based Palestine Museum US will sponsor a free virtual screening of the documentary film “The Palestine Exception.”
The film explores last year’s college protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, with academics asserting that political and major media attempts to label these protests as antisemitic reflect a modern form of McCarthyism. On its website, creators of “The Palestine Exception” argue that “As students across the country organize protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, decades-long taboos in academia around criticism of Israel –– the ‘Palestine exception’ –– are shattered. This film features professors and students as they join calls for a ceasefire and divestment from companies that do business with Israel and face waves of crackdown from administrators, the media, the police, and politicians.”
This screening is part of the museum’s regular Saturday programming of films and…
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