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THE LEFT IN PALESTINE / THE PALESTINIAN LEFT

Weekend Conference

27-28 February 2010, School of Oriental and African Studies, London Brunei =
Gallery

Organized by SOAS Palestine Society
and hosted by the London Middle East Institute

Tickets
Please note SEATS ARE LIMITED =96 book in advance
Price: =A330 (=A320 concessions, and =A340 organisations)
All tickets include lunch and refreshments
To buy your tickets:
Online - www.soaspalsoc.org<http://www.soaspalsoc.org/>

By cheque
Send cheque payable to SOAS Palestine Society with attached note of email a=
ddress to
SOAS Palestine Society
Thornhaugh Street
London, WC1H 0XG


Day One: Saturday, 27th February

Registration and Refreshments (9:00-9:30)

Opening: Azmi Bishara (Former Knesset member in exile, writer and political=
 leader)
Speech delivered via video (9:30-10:00)

Session One: The Left in British-Mandate Palestine
(10:00-11:45)

Chair: John Rose (Independent Researcher, London)

Musa Budeiri (Birzeit University)
The Last Colonial Venture: Communists, Nationalists and Settlers inPalestin=
e

Ilan Pappe (Exeter University)
The Contradiction of the Zionist Left in the Mandate Era

Leena Dallasheh (New York University)
Nazarene Labour Mobilization in Late Mandate Palestine


Coffee, Tea and Refreshments (11:45-12:00)

Session Two: The Left of the PLO-in-exile
(12:00-13:30)

Chair: Laleh Khalili (School of Oriental and African Studies)

Leila Khaled (PFLP, Member of the Palestinian National Council)
The Left=92s Social Mobilization in the Refugee Camps*
*presentation via video

Jamil Hilal (Independent Researcher, Ramallah)
The Shaping of the Palestinian Left

Gilbert Achcar (School of Oriental and African Studies)
Strategic Deficiencies of the PLO Left


LUNCH (13:30-2:15)


Session Three: The Left of the PLO - West Bank and Gaza Strip(2:15-4:15)

Chair: Dina Matar (School of Oriental and African Studies)

Muhammad Jaradat (Campaign Unit Coordinator for BADIL)
The Left=92s Lessons from the First Intifada

Toufic Haddad (Researcher for BADIL and Journalist)
The Left in the Post-Oslo Era

Aitemad Muhanna (Swansea University)
The Rise of Hamas, the Fall of Leftist Ideology?

Jamal Juma (Coordinator for Stop the Wall Campaign)
The Current Situation of the Left in the West Bank and Gaza Strip


Coffee, Tea and Refreshments (16:15-16:30)


Session Four: The Palestinian Left in the Israeli State
(16:30-18:00)

Chair: Bashir Abu-Manneh (Barnard College)

Areen Hawari (Co-founder of Tajamu and former member of its Politburo)
Balad (Tajamu): Democracy Confronts Zionism

Aida Touma-Sliman (Head of the International Relations Department, Communis=
t Party of Israel)
Title tbc

Ahmad Sa=92di (Ben Gurion University*)
Communism and Zionism: A Troubled Legacy
*speaking in his personal capacity

Day Two: Sunday, 28th February

Registration and Refreshments (10:30-11:00)

Session Five: The Israeli Anti-Zionist Left
(11:00-13:15)

Chair: Nira Yuval-Davis (University of East London)

Moshe Machover (Kings College, London)
Israeli Socialism and Anti-Zionism: Historical Tasks and Balance Sheet

Sami Shalom Chetrit (Queens College, CUNY)
The Zionist Left, the Anti-Zionist Left and the Fanatic Extremist Zionist M=
izrahim in Israel
(Who Really Invaded, Occupied, and Enslaved Palestine?)

Michael Warschawski (Alternative Information Center)
From Matzpen to Anarchists Against the Wall: Continuation and Ruptures

Adar Grayevsky (Anarchists Against the Wall)
From Tel Aviv to Bil=92in: The Israeli Radical Left Joins the Palestinian P=
opular Struggle

Lunch (13:15-14:00)

Session Six: The Palestinian Left in Literature (14:00-15:45)

Chair: Wen-Chin Ouyang (School of Oriental and African Studies)

Suheir Daoud (Coastal Carolina University)
Literature as Resistance

Sabry Hafez (School of Oriental and African Studies)
Constructing Identity, Re-Claiming the Land: Palestinian Poetry debunks the=
 Zionist Myth

Bashir Abu-Manneh (Barnard College)
Kanafani's Revolutionary Morality


Coffee, Tea and Refreshments (15:45-16:00)

Session Seven - Roundtable Discussion: Towards a New Left Programme for the=
 Palestinian Struggle
(16:00-18:00)

Chair: Gilbert Achcar

Aida Touma-Sliman, Areen Hawari, Jamal Juma, Jamil Hilal and Muhammad Jarad=
at


Tickets
Please note SEATS ARE LIMITED =96 book in advance
Price: =A330 (=A320 concessions, and =A340 organisations)
All tickets include lunch and refreshments
To buy your tickets:

Online - www.soaspalsoc.org<http://www.soaspalsoc.org/>
By cheque
Send cheque payable to SOAS Palestine Society with attached note of email a=
ddress to
SOAS Palestine Society
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London, WC1H 0XG

Location
SOAS Brunei Gallery
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London, WC1H 0XG

Contact
palestineconference@gmail.com<mailto:palestineconference@gmail.com>
www.soaspalsoc.org<http://www.soaspalsoc.org/>


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