Sold-out Russell Tribunal on Palestine within easy reach with live video, Twitter coverage | The Electronic Intifada

7.10.12

Sold-out Russell Tribunal on Palestine within easy reach with live video, Twitter coverage | The Electronic Intifada: Participants in the Russell Tribunal’s New York City session include: Pink Floyd’s singer/songwriter Roger Waters, public intellectual Noam Chomsky, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, Israeli historian Ilan Papp�, Black civil rights icon Angela Davis and many others. The Electronic Intifada blogger Ben White also will be providing testimony.

The Russell Tribunal on Palestine is an International People’s Tribunal launched in 2009 following Israel’s bloody assault on Gaza, bringing together legal experts, scholars, activists and other people of note to expose the reality of Israel’s 45-year-old military occupation and colonization of Palestinian land. Previous sessions have been held in Barcelona, London and Cape Town. Past hearings have addressed, respectively, European Union support for Israel, the complicity of corporations in the occupation of Palestine and the question of whether Israel is guilty of the crime of apartheid.