🌾 Online Event: Thai MIgrant Farmworkers in Israeli Agriculture 17.02.26 🌾
with Matan Kaminer, hosted by Farmers Without Borders

🗓️17.02.26 6pm (CET)
💻 Online - Please register here: https://uni-kassel.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/LgeRnRiWSlShHBPGzQiX9w

For decades, Israel’s agriculture has relied on migrant workers, almost all from Thailand, who often work under harsh and exploitative conditions. Similarly to Palestinian workers in Israel, they face low wages, unsafe workplaces, and limited rights, while systemic injustices leave them vulnerable and overlooked. Thai migrant agricultural workers have been central to Israel’s project of controlling and colonizing Palestinian land and have also been vulnerable to violence, including rocket fire, as well as kidnapping, injury and death on October 7th, 2023.

This online event explores, on the one hand, how Israel came to rely on these migrant agricultural workers and, on the other hand, how these workers survive, resist, and organize in the face of ongoing exploitation and systemic injustice.

Matan Kaminer is an anthropologist and a longtime activist on the Israeli radical left. He is a lecturer at Queen Mary University London and a board member at Academia for Equality.

We are looking forward to share this evening with with agricultural practitioners, food rights activists and friends from the food sovereignty movements. You are warmly invited to join us and are welcome to share the invitation with your networks!

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