Israel, Palestine, and the Changing Middle East

The International Issues Discussion (IID) series at Toronto Metropolitan University will present its third talk of the Fall 2025 series: "Israel, Palestine, and the Changing Middle East".

Our guest will be Jon Allen, Canada's Ambassador to Israel (2006-2010) and Spain (2012-2016). In addition to postings abroad in Mexico City and New Delhi, he held the positions of Minister (Political Affairs) at the Canadian Embassy in Washington (2004-2006) and Assistant Deputy Minister, Americas (2010-2012). He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto and the Chair of Project Rozana Canada, a not for profit whose objective is to build bridges between Palestinians and Israelis via the health sector.

His talk will be held in-person on Wednesday, November 5th between 6:30 and 8:30 pm in ENG 103 (the Vari Engineering Building, 245 Church Street, Toronto). Attendance is free and everyone is welcome.  

Founded in 2005, the IID is a non-partisan, student-led forum designed to engage all members of the TMU community on major events and issues in contemporary global affairs through reasoned, objective, and scholarly discourse. For further details about the IID and our series please see http://iid.kislenko.com (external link)   or contact the IID student leaders at iidseries@gmail.com