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DAVID SHEEN: Lectures Investigative journalist David Sheen lectures on the topics that he reports on, and since 2014, he has spoken at dozens of college campuses throughout the USA and Canada, and for European parliaments and civil society groups. To invite Sheen to speak in your community: d [at] davidsheen [dot] com Upcoming talks | Previous talks | Q & A sessions | Media appearances
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False Messiah's Donkey
Israel*Palestine is the place that the followers of the arch-racist Rabbi Meir Kahane terrorize non-Jews, with the objective of ethnically cleansing the country, so they can create a racially and religiously pure Jewish theocracy. But New York is the place that Kahane was born and raised, the place that the first preached his theology of hate, the place where he first rose to political prominence - and the place where he still has legions of followers and funders. In fact, without huge infusions of financial support from New Yorkers, the Kahane movement would have long since floundered and failed. So why don't American politicians - even ostensibly liberal lawmakers from the Democratic Party - end the gravy train that's fueling the most racist and most murderous movement in modern Jewish history? The latest lecture from investigative journalist and human rights defender David Sheen.
First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles • Los Angeles, CA • 5.2022
Three decades after the death of Rabbi Meir Kahane, the movement that bears his name - and the unabashed advocacy for ethnic cleansing that he championed - are firmly ensconced in Israeli politics. But while most of the killers to come out of the Kahanist camp (more than twenty in number) have been dealt at least some form of punishment, those that murdered Palestinian-American activist Alex Odeh outside Los Angeles in 1985 have never had to answer for their crimes. Until now: investigative journalist and human rights defender David Sheen dug deep where the FBI could not go, and where Israel's Shin Bet didn't want to, unearthing enough evidence to put Odeh's assassins behind bars for the rest of their lives. But is there political will on either side of the Atlantic to act on it?
Arab American Community Center • Orange County, CA • 5.2022
Followers of Rabbi Meir Kahane were once among America's most active terrorists, but their capacity was crushed in 2001, when the FBI arrested the Jewish Defense League leadership over a plot to bomb a California mosque and assassinate an Arab-American congressman. Ever since, the JDL's been mostly dormant in the US, but in Israel and the occupied Palestinian Territories, Kahane's eliminationist ideology has more adherents than ever. In 2021, Kahane's followers were voted into the Knesset, Israel's legislature; from there, they incited race riots that Israel's police chief called a "Jewish intifada". Instead of denying them platforms from which to promote their race wars, Israeli media outlets are now giving the Kahanists more airtime than any other political party, ensuring that their popularity will only continue to rise. A sobering report from investigative journalist and human rights defender David Sheen.
Busboys and Poets • Arlington, VA • 5.2022
The far-right is in ascendancy all over the globe, and in Israel, factions once excoriated as political pariahs for being too racist -- even by Israeli standards -- have been welcomed into the halls of power by the government itself. Why does Netanyahu's ruling Likud party rehabilitate the most reactionary American-born rabbis and their local acolytes at the vanguard of Israel's eliminationist movement? How have their extensive efforts to turn all of Israel*Palestine (and territories beyond) into a single racially pure religious state escaped the attention of the mainstream media, for decades? A scandalous report from inside Jewish Israeli society by local journalist and human rights defender David Sheen that will leave you demanding answers -- and action -- before it's too late.
University of Zurich • Zurich, CH • 11.2019
Palestine Center • Washington, DC • 10.2019
Judea-Africa-America
A pitched war of words is being waged between prominent African Americans and Jewish Americans over how best to respond to increasing racism in both the US and Israel, egged on respectively and collectively by Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. Nearly absent in this conversation are the lived experiences of black folks who actually inhabit Jewish spaces -- in the USA, in Israel and in the occupied Palestinian territories. An examination of the complex relationship history between these groups -- Blacks and Jews, and Black Jews -- sheds much-needed light on the treatment meted out to communities of color under Israeli ethnocracy, foremost among them indigenous Palestinians. A 100-minute multimedia lecture from local journalist and human rights defender David Sheen.
Auburn Avenue Research Library • Atlanta, GA • 3.2019
Israeli Politics Decoded
Gaza is eviscerated. Apartheid is entrenched in the West Bank. Inside official Israel, the ruling party openly promotes racial hatred towards Arabs and Africans. How popular are these belligerent policies amongst Israeli Jews? And how can we make sense of Israeli politics -- where dozens of parties run for parliament, and double-digits get in -- with wild swings, seemingly, in who holds power? Data visualizations of Israeli public opinion polls reveal patterns, while English translations of Israel's internal discourse reveal how those trends are expressed and experienced in our everyday lives. No easy answers here, but an unflinching interrogation and a compelling analysis of the state of Israel*Palestine under Trump and Netanyahu, from local journalist and human rights defender David Sheen.
Charles University • Prague, CZ • 11.2018
House of Literature • Oslo, NO • 3.2018
Scripps College • Claremont, CA • 11.2017
Spelman College • Atlanta, GA • 11.2017
Emory University • Atlanta, GA • 11.2017
Bolivar Hall of the Venezuelan Embassy • London, UK • 10.2017
Sverige Sallen • Stockholm, SE • 10.2017
University of Arizona • Tucson, AZ • 3.2017
University of New Orleans • New Orleans, LA • 10.2015
Pitzer College • Claremont, CA • 10.2015
McGill University • Montreal, QU • 11.2015
Unitarian Church • Richmond-upon-Thames, UK • 11.2015
Zaytuna College • Berkeley, CA • 10.2015
Marygrove College • Detroit, MI • 11.2015
Brooklyn College • New York, NY • 11.2015
Our Savior Lutheran Church • Milwaukee, WI • 10.2015
Emory University • Atlanta, GA • 11.2015
University of Missouri • Columbia, MO • 11.2015
School of Oriental & African Studies • London, UK • 10.2015
O'Reilly Theatre • Dublin, IE • 7.2015
University of Southern Maine • Portland, ME • 3.2015
University of Waterloo • Waterloo, ON • 2.2015
McMaster University • Hamilton, ON • 3.2015
College of Staten Island • New York, NY • 3.2015
University of Calgary • Calgary, AB • 3.2015
University of Western Ontario • London, ON • 2.2015
German Parliament • Berlin, DE • 10.2014
University of South Florida • Tampa, FL • 10.2014
Florida International University • Miami, FL • 10.2014
Harvard University • Boston, MA • 10.2014
European Parliament • Brussels, BE • 9.2014
Russell Tribunal on Palestine • Brussels, BE • 9.2014
Simon Fraser University • Vancouver, BC • 3.2014
TEDxJohannesburg • Johannesburg, ZA • 10.2010
Arizona State University • Phoenix, AZ
University of Alberta • Edmonton, AB
University of Bern • Bern, CH
Oxford University • Oxford, UK
Norwegian University of Science & Technology • Ålesund, NO
Parliament of European Union • Brussels, BE
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