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2025 Bunis Lecture: Talking about Israel and Palestine with Professor Mira Sucharov

Tuesday, January 28, 2025 - 1:30 pm EST
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Join us in conversation with Mira Sucharov, Professor of Political Science at Carleton University, as she walks us through the dynamics of contemporary North American discourse on Israel and Palestine. She will share her findings on how Zionism is understood and misunderstood, will analyze other hot-button terms and slogans, and will suggest ways we can move towards healing within our communities and across them. 
 
The Louis Bunis Memorial Lecture was founded by the family of Louis Bunis to honor his memory . A friend of Mordecai Kaplan and Ira Eisenstein, Bunis help found two Reconstructionist Synagogues and was a leader in the Jewish Community of Buffalo, NY.
 

About Professor Mira Sucharov

Mira Sucharov is Professor of Political Science at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She is the author or editor of five books, including Borders and Belonging: A Memoir (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021); and Social Justice and Israel/Palestine: Foundational & Contemporary Debates (University of Toronto Press, 2019, co-edited with Aaron J. Hahn Tapper), and she has published over thirty-five scholarly articles and book chapters. She is a nine-time teaching award winner, including having received the top university teaching award in Ontario. Her many op-eds and articles have appeared in The Globe and Mail, Haaretz, The Forward, The Daily Beast, the Toronto Star, The Jerusalem Post, JTA and Jewish Currents. She is currently writing, with Omar Dajani, a book about equality and attachment in Israel-Palestine. She serves on the Advisory Council of New Israel Fund-Canada, on the advisory committees of Nexus and the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism, on the North American Steering Committee of A Land for All: Two States, One Homeland, and she is co-founder of Drachim: A New Path Forward for Israel/Palestine. 

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