The current Israeli-Palestinian is marked by a seemingly endless cycle of mutual recrimination. Each side accuses the other of total complicity while exempting itself entirely from responsibility. In fact, both sides are partners in the conflict, with varying degrees of agency depending on time and event. And yet, a wider angle of observation on the conflict requires us to consider the earlier European roots of the conflict. David Myers considers a set of factors--the political aims of European powers, the persistence of antisemitism, and the promise and the failure of a meaningful minority rights regime--that set in motion the Zionist movement and the subsequent tensions between Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine. For more info: watson.brown.edu/events/2018/david-myers-where-responsibility-lies-reframing-israeli-palestinian-conflict Tuesday, April 17, 2018 Brown University

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