J. M. Coetzee speaking in Ramallah, at the 9th Palestine Festival of Literature

Nobel laureate JM Coetzee introduces his reading at the closing night of PalFest 2016:

“To speak of Jerusalem and the West Bank, we see a system of enforced segregation based on religion and ethnicity put in place by an exclusive self-defined group to consolidate a colonial conquest, in particular to maintain, and indeed extend, its hold on the land and its natural resources.”