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“Don’t say we did not know” – talk with Amos Gvirtz – May 3, 3:00 pm

Who: Amos Gvirtz, Israeli Peace Activist
Where: Friends Meetinghouse, 508 Denner, Kalamazoo
When: May 3rd, 3:00 pm
Free and open to the public, sponsored by KNOW

Amos has developed an international audience with his Don’t Say We Did Not Know weekly emails about unpublicized incidents, events, and government actions affecting the Palestinian and Bedouin communities in Israel and Palestine. His newly published book (in Hebrew), Don’t Say We Did Not Know, deals with the moral questions Israelis must face today and why they don’t want to know about the crimes being committed in their name.  He hopes to have the book translated into English and published in the US.  “Writing this book has brought me some new ideas. Some surprised me and some frighten me,” he says.

Amos is a co-founder of the local FOR (Fellowship of Reconciliation) chapter in Israel called “Israelis and Palestinians for Nonviolence” (Palestinians who have an Israeli passport).  For many years Amos has been a member of the board of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, based in Alkmar, The Netherlands.