By Fighting Words Staff
On Monday, December 16, 2024, a capacity audience in person and online attended an important discussion featuring speakers well versed on the historical and contemporary crises in West Asia.
This event was sponsored by the Moratorium NOW! Coalition and the Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice (MECAWI). Co-sponsors included Palestinian Youth Movement, Coalition Against Genocide, Detroit Anti-War Committee among others.
The panel was held amid more than a year of mass demonstrations, encampments, rallies and conferences which have denounced the genocide in Gaza and the continuing war in the entire region from Palestine to Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Iran.
The speakers featured were Dr. Ismail Noor of the United States Palestinian Community Network (USPCN); Julia Kassem, a graduate of American University in Beirut, Lebanon and a correspondent for Al Mayadeen Television and Presstv Programs; Joe Mchahwar, Syrian-American and graduate from Wayne State University (WSU); and Tommy Cavanaugh of the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.
The event was chaired by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire.
The discussion centered around the historical development of the Palestinian crisis, the imperialist attempts to conquer and divide the people of the West Asia region and the recent events in Gaza, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon and Syria.
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