Genocide and the Widening Middle East Wars

Phyllis Bennis, Ervand Abrahamian, and Assaf Kfoury speak about Israel’s Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, and Yemen wars.

With missiles flying between Israel and Iran, Lebanon, and Yemen, no end in sight to the Gaza genocide, and the United States deepening engagement as Israel’s ally and weapons supplier, we have organized an exceptional panel to discuss these wars dynamics, origins, consequences, and ways to stop the killing and for justice.

Phyllis Bennis directs the Institute for Policy Studies’ New Internationalism Project. She was a founding member of U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, and is a fellow of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam

Ervand Abrahamian is an Iranian-American historian of the Middle East. He is Distinguished Professor of History at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is widely regarded as one of the leading historians of modern Iran

Assaf Kfoury is a Lebanese-Palestinian-American mathematician, computer scientist, and political activist. He was raised in Beirut and Cairo, is a professor of computer science at Boston University. He has written widely on political dynamics in the Middle East

Sponsored by the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security, Historians for Peace and Democracy, Massachusetts Peace Action, and Brooklyn for Peace.