◆ “The ethnic cleansing of Palestine is happening right now.

ow. Not only have the massacres and expulsions of the past never been officially acknowledged,

but the Nakba continues today with every destroyed home and Palestinian emigrant. However, the unwavering resistance and resi lience of the remaining

Palestinian population have, so far, ensured that Israel‟s ethnic cleansing of Palestine remains incomplete. It is up to all of us to ensure that the

Palestinians‟ steadfast struggle for survival and freedom has not been in vain.”

◆ “This is a struggle for justice. It affects all of us, all of us are involved. As Dr. Martin Luther King said, injustice anywhere is a threat to justice
everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.‟”

Anna Baltzer
Anna Baltzer, human rights activist and campaigner, granddaughter of a Nazi Holocaust survivor, joined the
International Women's Peace Service in 2003 to volunteer in Palestine under Israeli occupation. She
returned repeatedly to experience the reality of the occupation, living and working with farmers and
Palestinian and Israeli activists, and the families of political prisoners. Her experiences, which led her to a
sharp critique of US and Israeli policy in Palestine, are detailed in the reportage, Witness in Palestine: A
Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories, were praised highly by Noam Chomsky and others.

“Even those who are familiar with the grim reality of the occupied territories will quickly be
drawn into a world they had barely imagined by these vivid, searingly honest, intensely
acute portrayals.” – NOAM CHOMSKY

Nothing will Stop Humans

from Seeking Freedom
Anna Baltzer
Lecture: Peace and Human Rights in Palestine The Occupation, witnessed by Anna Baltzer

Since 2003, the reality of life in Occupied Palestine has been witnessed by the eyes of a Jewish become a criticism of the other. … occupying Arab populations has nothing to do with

American woman, and it has changed her life irrevocably. As a Jew, as an American, as a woman, Judaism or Americanism. Being Jewish or Israeli doesn‟t have to mean unconditionally

and simply as Anna Baltzer, she wanted to let the world know that reality: how the state of supporting the actions of the Israeli government any more than being American means

Israel—and the US, with its aid and weapons—justified many forms of violence against Palestinians. unconditionally supporting the actions of the United States government..” Israel‟s

“When I tell most people in the United States that I‟m working in the West Bank, they always Occupation, she argues, puts the Jewish state “at greater risk than ever.” It has resulted

ask me the same question: „Which side are you on, the Palestinian or the Israeli?‟ I never in disapproval and resentment on an international scale; in ever-increasing loss of life,

know what to answer; the question sounds so absurd to me. This is not a struggle between liberty, democracy and human security in the region; in undermining “the Jewish

Palestinians and Israelis, it‟s a struggle for freedom and basic human rights. … So which side tradition of humanitarianism and social justice”; in creating “a dependence on US

am I on? I am on the side of human dignity and self-determination. I am on the side of those military aid that cannot be sustained indefinitely.”

who seek equal rights for all, regardless of religion, nationality, or ethnicity. This is the Anna Baltzer is visiting Japan at the invitation of JALT and other supporting institutions.

struggle of everyone sharing those ideals, even if today the victims are Palestinian. Tomorrow This is a special opportunity to meet her and hear her talking about the truth. We look

they could be you. This is your struggle, too.” For Anna, “Mass propaganda has succeeded in forward to welcoming you.

equating the Israeli government and army with the Jewish people: a criticism of one has

Anna Baltzer lecture 11.16（Tues.）18:30~21.30

“Peace and Human Rights in Palestine” at Kyoto University, South Campus

【Sign up!】Pre-registration at anna.in.kyoto@gmail.com

【Venue】 Ningen-Kankyogaku Kenkyuka-to (Graduate School of Human
& Environmental Studies) Chika Kogishitsu (Basement Lecture Hall)
【Access】 map at http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/access/campus/y_south.htm