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Old Geology Lecture Theatre, Edgworth David Building Speakers: Associate Professor Peter Slezak is a founder of Independent Australian Jewish Voices, and a member of the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network. APAN works with MPs and officials, from both government and opposition, in Canberra, to rally support in Australia for Palestinian rights and freedoms. They have been promoting a statement, now signed by 30 MPs, about the current crisis, which says: “The international community including Australia has a vital responsibility to put pressure on Israel to end its current military attack on Gaza and broker a solution of justice and peace”. Alma Torlakovic is an activist with the National Tertiary Education Union and a member of Sydney Staff for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. Shamikh Badra is a political activist from Gaza who is studying for a Master of Peace and Conflict Studies degree at the University of Sydney. Associate Professor Jake Lynch is Director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies. Recently, he won a court case against an Israeli law centre, Shurat HaDin, to uphold his right to boycott institutional links between the University of Sydney and Israeli universities. Suzanne Asad is an activist with Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Sydney. She took part in the successful campaign for the Student Representative Council to endorse the academic boycott of Israel. Jake Associate Professor Jake Lynch, BA, Dip Journalism Studies, PhD Director, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies Executive Member, Sydney Peace Foundation Senior Research Fellow, School of Communication, University of Johannesburg Room 121 | Mackie Building (K01) The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 AUSTRALIA p 61 2 9351 5440 | f 61 2 9660 0862 w www.arts.usyd.edu.au/cpacs e jake.lynch@sydney.edu.au