(in person at Temple Sinai, Ehrenfried Hall)
Co-sponsored by Temple Sinai I/PAG, Israeli Americans for Justice, and TBZ IPAG
Meet with Sari Bashi – human rights attorney and writer who will share about her new memoir, Upside-Down Love: A Memoir in Two Voices, which came out in English in January. Upside-Down Love tells the story of how Sari, an Israeli-American human rights attorney, created a shared life with her husband, a Palestinian professor from Gaza who is based in the West Bank. Sari will discuss her experience of building and raising her Jewish-Palestinian family in the West Bank and the process of writing and publishing the memoir, which originally came out in Hebrew. She will also talk about the moral and individual culpability of Jewish Israelis in the current situation, the future of Israel/Palestine, and the state of human rights more broadly.
Sari Bashi is an internationally renowned human rights lawyer, the former program director of Human Rights Watch, the cofounder of the Israeli human rights organization Gisha, and the executive director of the Public Committee Against Torture-Israel (PCATI). She is a graduate of Yale Law School and has previously clerked on the Israeli Supreme Court. She has taught international humanitarian law at Yale Law School and Tel Aviv University. She has also been a Jerusalem correspondent for The Associated Press and has appeared on, and been interviewed by, major English-language outlets. She and Osama (a pseudonym) are married and living in the West Bank.
Books will be available for purchase.