Over many decades of international turmoil, discriminatory agendas, and vicious acts of violence... this is the haunting Olympic history of Israel and Palestine.

San Charles Haddad and program moderator, Violet Radnofsky, the Littauer Hebraic Technical and Services librarian at Harvard University Library, will discuss the previously untold history of a Palestine Olympic Committee recognized before the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. It sheds light on some of the darkest events in sport history, exposing secretive relationships behind the doors of the Jerusalem YMCA, Nazi agitation, arrests, internments, Avery Brundage, and other intrigue in the complicated history of Israeli and Palestinian sport.

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