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Haifa Conference for the Right of Return and the Secular Democratic State in Palestine

Friday and Saturday, June 20-21, 2008 Haifa, Al Midan Theatre, Khouri St 2

Extract:

(1) Aspects of the Conflict in Palestine Facilitator: Hisham Naffa 1. The Palestine Question, from understanding the conflict, to defiance: theory and practice, Dr Massoud Eghbarieh 2. Between national and class levels – the history and horizon of the trade union struggle in Palestine, Wehbe Badarneh 3. The racist separation wall and the World Monetary Fund's policy, Doud Hamoudi 4. Israeli economic hegemony – variations in a one complementary colonialist economic order throughout Palestine, Prof. Leila Farsakh 5. The Jewish question and the Jewish state, in view of resisting imperialism in Palestine, Eli Aminov

(2) Zionism and the Borders of Ethnic Cleansing; facilitator: Dr. Johnny Mansour 1. Ethnic cleansing in Zionist ideology and practice, Dr. Mahmoud Muhareb 2. The Negev – ethnic cleansing here and now, Atiya el-A’assam 3. Cleansing without borders – ethnic cleansing in the Golan and failed attempts in South Lebanon, Dr. Taysir Mara’i 4. Separation as a new form of transfer, Jonathan Cook 5. Ethnic cleansing in Palestine, a crime against humanity – who bears the responsibility?, Attorney Walid Al-Fahum

(3) Right of return and the democratic secular state in human rights perspective; facilitator: Attorney Hussein Abu Hussein 1. Democratic regime throughout Palestine: expanding the borders of the state of all citizens, and the return of the refugees, Attorney Hassan Jabareen 2. Right of return of the internally displaced and refugees – between positive law and natural right, Attorney Wakim Wakim 3. Return of the refugees as a condition for humanizing the Israeli entity – criticism of recognizing the right of return in exchange for an actual return, Michael Warshavsky 4. The democratic secular state – the right to self-determination and de-Zionisation of historical Palestine, Omar Barghouti

(4) Partition of Palestine: Solving the problem or complicating the solution? facilitator: Rawiya Shanti 1. Palestine – a one united continual history and geography across the eras, Dr. Ibrahim El-Fanni 2. The colonization and racist separation regime – comparing South Africa and Israel, Dr. Amneh Badran 3. The right of return between the two-state and the one-state solutions, Badil - Bethlehem 4. Concluding the one-state solution from international law and legitimacy, Dr. Uri Davis

(5) Palestine towards freedom and return – Philosophical, pedagogical and political perspectives; facilitator – Salman Natur 1. Dialectics of homeland and Diaspora, and resisting the misleading temptation of the 'return home', Prof. Ilan Gur-Ze’ev 2. Scenes of the tragedy – notes at the sides of the catch, Dr. Ismail Nashef 3. Secularism – supportive environment for the national and cultural freedom project, Abed Anabtawi 4. An optimistic look at the return of the refugees – from an anarchist point of view, Eyal Rosenberg

(6) The Crisis in Israeli Society; facilitator: Ranin Giryes 1. Who's afraid of the return of the refugees? Developing practical ideas about the return of the refugees to Palestine, Eitan Bronstein 2. An optimistic perspective: "Despairing of the state" as a leverage to end the religion/state fixation, Ofra Yeshua-Lyth 3. Jewish Arabs in Israel: will they facilitate the way to the 1 state?, Reuven Aberjil 4. Anti-Zionism as a Zionist belonging, and alternatives to a Jewish collective identity, Yana Knopova

(7) Different Perspectives of a One-State Palestine; facilitator Muhammad Kayal 1. A bi-national state for Palestinians and Israelis, Dr. As’ad Ghanem 2. A democratic secular republic of all its Palestinian citizens, Prof. Yehuda Kupferman 3. The democratic secular state in the context of a liberation vision of the Arab world, Muhammad Kana’aneh 4. The catch and the escape, Ahmad Katamesh

(8) Boycotting Israel and Solidarity of Nations; facilitator Samieh Jabbarin 1. Lessons to be learned from South Africa – boycott from without and popular struggle within, Melissa Hall 2. The European civil society’s support of the struggle for return and against racism, John Rose 3. Boycotting Israel – Resisting the normalization of Occupation and Apartheid, Yael Lerer 4. How to comply with the Palestinian call to boycott Israel?, Roy Haroush/Kobi Snitz 5. Boycott: civil resistance is the most effective in face of a complicated Zionist Colonial oppression, Omar Barghouti

(9) Approaches to freedom and enlightenment in the activity of civil society organizations; facilitator Subhi Zgheir 1. Feminism: resisting hegemony in theory and in practice, Leila Jaroushi / Areen Hawari 2. The dialectics of the self and the other, and the formation of a belonging youth Palestinian identity, Awni Kreim 3. Towards liberation of the Israeli Society of Hegemony and the Nakba denial, Dr. Mary Totari 4. The Palestine 48 struggle against discrimination and racism, differs but completes the struggle of the Palestinian people, Muhammad Zidan

Full programme: www.antiimperialista.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5729&Itemid=55 

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