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Conference
Stop the Wall in Palestine
Europe and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
The past months’ startling, ominous events taking place in Lebanon, Palestine and Israel have made our project even more urgent: A follow-up conference to our June 2004 "Stop the Wall" Conference.
At this current conference, we intend to discuss the ways citizens and social movements can and must be influential in moving European policy in the direction of promoting peace and to ceasing its support of the disastrous course taken by the Israeli government and its US-ally. The German government’s acceptance and support of Israeli warfare demonstrates that a well informed and mobilized public opinion - also in Germany - is the key to reaching the necessary policy change for the better.
We first of all want to focus on the blatant deterioration of the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories and the construction of the Wall, as the central project of the Israeli policy of occupation, and the main source of discord. Secondly we will examine the European and German policy and its joint responsibility for the Israel Palestine conflict.
We have invited outstanding guests from Palestine and Israel to inform us on the situation. But essential is also to discuss with them the possibilities of effective intervention of the movements for peace and solidarity. We want to discuss how to strengthen and activate our campaigns and to build stronger international networks.
German Coordination Stop the Wall in Palestine, www.stopptdiemauer.de
Statement by the Conference Participants and Organizers
Pictures of the Conference
Documentation of the Conference (mainly in German language)
Contact
Organizers
Download Flyer (in German language)
Website of our Conference in June 2004
Conference Languages
German and English (simultaneous translation)
Locality & Time
Saturday, November 18th, 2006
9.00 am - 6.30 pmGenezareth-Kirche, Herrfurthplatz 14, 12049 Berlin
(Undergound number 8, Stop Boddinstraße)
Speakers
Janet Michael (Mayor of Ramallah, Palestina),
Refusal of the visa for Janet Michael by German authorities (press release in German language)Fathi Khdiratm (Coordinator of the Palestinian Campaign against the Apartheid Wall in Jordan Valley)
Jeff Halper (Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, ICAHD)
Gilbert Achcar (University of Paris VIII, Political Science)
Jamalat Abou Youssef, political activist
Ottfried Nassauer (Director of the Berlin Information Center for Transatlantic Security)
Raif Hussein (Chairman of the German-Palestinian Society, Vice-Chairman of the Palestinian Community in Germany)
Fanny-Michaela Reisin (European Jews for a just Peace)
Program
9.00 am: Introduction by a speaker of the organizers
9.30 am: The situation in Palestine, Lebanon, and Israel today &
The German and European involvement in the regionJanet Michael (Refusal of the visa for Janet Michael by German authorities, press release in german language)
Fathi Khdiratm
Jeff Halper
Gilbert Achcar
Jamalat Abou Youssef1.30 pm: Lunch Break
2.30 pm: Campaigning and Activities against war, occupation and the wall
Short introduction of campaigns/activities like German-Israeli-military cooperation and the BDS-campaign (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions)
Ottfried Nassauer
Raif Hussein
Fanny-Michaela ReisinActivists of social and soldarity movements will discuss with our guests about actions to be taken now in order to support the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples’struggle for their rights and to stop war and occupation and tear down the wall.
6.30 pm: conclusion
