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'Israel Is Real'
UM-Dearborn program featuring two scholars
takes a deep look at the Middle East conflict.
Hava Ylyaguev
jewish@edu writer
onths ago, Eviatar Baksis, Hillel of Metro Detroit's
Near East & Asian Studies provided a
Israel program associate, suggested to me that it
highly informative presentation about
would be a great idea to hold an Israel-themed
event at the University of Michigan-Dearborn in hopes of rais-
the history of Israel prior to its estab-
lishment in 1948. Some of the topics
ing awareness about Israel and its history. Being the proud
Israeli that I am, I was filled with excitement.
he covered included Muslim-Jewish
relations, the Hussein-McMahon cor-
However, as soon as I gave this idea some thought, I
became skeptical that anything Israel-related at this place
respondence and how it clashed with
the Balfour Declaration, the creation
(Dearborn, home of many Muslim Arabs) and this time (after
Israel's most recent war with Gaza) may not be the brightest
of Zionism and life under the British
Mandate.
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idea. Turns out I was wrong.
Hava Ylyaguev moderates the Israel is Real panel.
Following this insightful pre-1948 history lecture, Dr.
definitely supported the major purpose of the event, which
With enormous help from Eviatar, the Jewish Student
Organization and the Israel on Campus Coalition, a co-spon-
Lupovitch, a history professor and the director of the Cohn-
Haddow Center for Judaic Studies at WSU, continued to talk
was to raise awareness and educate students on the real facts
of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
sor, I planned "Israel Is Real: A Deeper Look into the Middle
East Conflict," which took place Jan. 29 on the UM-Dearborn
about the history of Israel post-1948. He discussed the start of
the War of Independence, the Suez Crisis, the Six-Day War, and
I am honored I had the opportunity to be a part of such an
insightful program, and I hope that this discussion can open
campus. Though I continued to have some major reservations
about an event focused on Israel, this event went far beyond
the current relations between Israelis and Palestinians.
Questions and answers followed the presentations, which
doors to other measures that will educate people about Israel
and form dialogues about promoting coexistence and peace
what I imagined.
quickly turned into an entertaining dialogue between the two
with Israel's neighbors. @
We had the honor of having two local scholars partici-
pate as guest speakers: Professor Saeed Khan and Professor
Howard Lupovitch. Professor Khan of Wayne State University's
Department of History and a lecturer in the Department of
professors and the diverse audience. It was clear that the
professors were highly knowledgeable in this area of study;
they provided an informative yet objective perspective on the
history of Israel and its conflict with the Palestinians, which
Hava Ylyaguev of West Bloomfield is a senior at the University
of Michigan-Dearborn.
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