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Events to promote diversity

Lectures, film strive to educate and show culture

A series of events for Palestinian Awareness Week will take place Monday through Friday.

Students for Palestinian Human Rights are co-sponsoring the event with Muslim Students’ Association, Students for Economic Justice and the Peace Education Center.

Ilan Pappe, a history and political science professor at Haifa University, will be hosting a lecture called “Israel: a State of Denial” at 7:30 p.m. Monday at Wells Hall.

Students will set up a mock refugee camp to simulate the lives of Palestinian refugees from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday outside Erickson Hall.

At 7 p.m. Tuesday in Old Horticulture Building, speakers will discuss environmental issues, public health and eyewitness accounts in a panel called “The Refugee Condition.”

A documentary screening of Palestinian people will be followed by a discussion group at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Wells Hall.

An inter-faith rally will be held for justice and human rights from noon to 2 p.m. Thursday at the Capitol.

Peace activist Rabbi Dovid Weiss, the associated director of Jews United Against Zionism, will lecture at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Wells Hall.

Joey Marogil, a coordinator for the Students for Palestinian Human Rights, said he hopes the event fosters intellectual discussion and awareness.

“We’re hoping that students are willing to recognize that Palestinians are mistreated,” he said.

Marogil, who graduated in May with a degree in accounting, said the group is working to ensure no one is offended during the events.

“It is our primary goal to make this a time when everyone’s voices can be heard,” he said.

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