DAVID SHEEN: Lectures Investigative journalist David Sheen lectures on the topics that he reports on, and for over a decade 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 The Kahane Effect With the far right in the ascendancy around the world, the Kahane movement - once shunned for its blatant racism, even by Israeli standards - has been catapulted into power, becoming the third-largest party in parliament. Who are these followers of the late American-Israeli arch-racist Rabbi Meir Kahane, and how did they become the kingmakers of the Knesset? Shrewd analysis from the front lines of Israel's race wars, with the award-winning investigative journalist who most closely covered the their rise to power over the past decade-plus, David Sheen. Jewish Politics Decoded During the 2010's, Israel's government and supporters demanded that any peace deal hinge on its neighbors agreeing to accept it as a "Jewish state". At no point however did Israel explain exactly what its Jewishness would entail in practice for the million of non-Jews under its rule. In fact, there is no consensus on what Judaism is, even amongst Jews themselves. In this lecture, David Sheen charts the history of how Jewish people came to be, how they evolved religiously and politically over thousands of years, and what those many changes mean for modern-day politics in Israel*Palestine. Gaslight Unto the Nations In the past, there was broad consensus that the term anti-semitism meant prejudice against people just because they're Jewish. But today, the term is coming to take on new meanings, including critique of the State of Israel, its actions and its ethnocratic character. In an Orwellian inversion, anti-racist criticism of Israel's discrimination against non-Jews have been redefined as a racist hatred of Jews, in an attempt to strip Palestinians of even the right to protest their own ongoing dispossession. David Sheen's latest lecture takes a long, hard look at the leading lobbyists responsible. Israel Inverted As the far-right rises in popularity all over the planet, WWII history is revised and inverted to whitewash fascist movements past and present. Retracing the ultra-nationalist upsurge a century ago is of special importance to us in Israel-Palestine, since this history forever altered our political trajectory. How did grass-roots Jews and community bigwigs react in real time as the logic of ethnic cleansing earned intellectual currency? In a new lecture, David Sheen argues that a better grasp of how our ancestors responded to the rise of Nazism reshapes our own understanding of the Holocaust and much more.