This event was the second of the Stanford Human Rights Center’s Speaker Series, Perspectives on the Current Israel-Palestine Conflict.

In March 2003, an Israeli army bulldozer killed Rachel Corrie, a U.S. peace activist, while she sought to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian house in the Gaza Strip. Cindy and Craig Corrie, Rachel’s parents, will share their search for accountability for her death. Their attorney, Hussein Abu Hussein, will analyze the Israeli Supreme Court’s ruling in the case, and discuss Adalah’s work in Israel/Palestine.

Speakers

Cindy and Craig Corrie are the parents of Rachel Corrie. For the last 12 years, they have pursued justice for the killing of their daughter in courts in the U.S. and Israel.

Hussein Abu Hussein has advocated for the human rights of Palestinians in Israel and the Occupied Territories since 1976. Hussein serves as counsel for the family of Rachel Corrie in Israel. He is chair of Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, and co-founder of the Arab Association for Human Rights.

Moderator

David Palumbo-Liu, Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor at Stanford University, and Professor of Comparative Literature and, by courtesy, English.

Co-sponsored by the: John and Terry Levin Center for Public Service and Public Interest Law, WSD Handa Center For Human Rights and International Justice, Peace and Justice Studies Initiative (PJSI), National Lawyers Guild (NLG), International Law Society (ILS), Stanford International Human Rights Law Association (SIHRLA), Students for Alternatives to Militarism (SAM), Stanford NAACP, and the Stanford Critical Law Society (SCritLS)

Learn More at:

• The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice continues the work that Rachel Corrie began and hoped to accomplish, and carries out that work with her vision, spirit, and creative energy in mind.
• Adalah (“Justice” in Arabic) is an independent human rights organization and legal center. Established in November 1996, it works to promote and defend the rights of Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel, 1.2 million people, or 20% of the population, as well as Palestinians living in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).
• Arab Association for Human Rights (HRA), founded in 1988 by lawyers and community activists, is an independent, grassroots, non-governmental organization (NGO), registered in Israel. HRA works to promote and protect the political, civil, economic, and cultural rights of the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel from an international human rights perspective.