LCHP hosts first event in series “Deadlock in Israel-Palestine: How to Imagine a Better Future?”
On October 3rd, the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy, in partnership with the USC Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life and the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, hosted part one of its multi-part series titled “Deadlock in Israel-Palestine: How to Imagine a Better Future?”
The aim of this series is to bring together leading scholars, thinkers, and policy-makers of decidedly different visions to sit down and talk concretely and respectfully about the current state of impasse in Israel-Palestine and their proposals for the future—and in so doing, to ignite our political imaginations.
Scholars Omar Rahman, Dahlia Scheindlin, Yuli Tamir, and Shibley Telhami joined together on October 3, offering their distinct visions. They discuss the gap between one and two state solutions, including potential confederal arrangements, the need to strengthen Palestinian bureacratic institutions and leadership, and the urgency of improving the status quo first.
Watch the recording of the event below, and register for the second panel on December 5th at 11 am PST here.
About the Panelists
Omar Rahman is a visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center, where he is writing a book on Palestinian fragmentation in the post-Oslo era. A writer, analyst, and journalist, he specializes in Middle East politics and American foreign policy. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, The National, Al Jazeera English, and World Politics Review, among others. He holds a Master’s in Politics and Global Affairs from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Dahlia Scheindlin is an international political consultant and public opinion analyst based in Tel Aviv. She is one of the leading pollsters and political analysts in Israel associated with progressive causes and peace/conflict research, and she has advised on eight Israeli election campaigns and worked in 15 other countries. She is a co-founder of and columnist at +972 Magazine, and a policy fellow at The Century Foundation and co-host of The Tel Aviv Review podcast. Dr. Scheindlin holds a Master of Theological Studies degree from Harvard Divinity School and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Tel Aviv University.
Yuli Tamir is the president of Beit Berl College and an adjunct professor at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University. She was a deputy speaker of the Knesset and served as Israel’s Minister of Immigration and Minister of Education representing the Labor party. She was a founding member of the Israeli peace movement Peace Now and served as the chair of the Israeli Association of Civil Rights. Professor Tamir received her Ph.D. in Political Philosophy from Oxford University.
Shibley Telhami is a nonresident senior fellow with the Center for Middle East Policy, in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. He is the Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland. In the past, Professor Telhami served as a senior advisor to the U.S. Department of State and advisor to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley.
