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The Erasure of Palestine


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8:00 - 9:00 a.m.

Conference
9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. 
1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Friday, 13 November 2009

The Zionist movement and the Israeli state are in the last stages of achieving effective sovereignty over all historic Palestine.  The Israeli nomenclature, “Judaization” of the land, first entered general public discourse in 1976. We must acknowledge that we are witnessing the Judaization of what remains to Palestinians of historic Palestine (with the possible exception of the Gaza Strip).  Failure to understand the process of Judaization, on one hand, and the concomitant erasure of Palestinian wujud (existence) in all its forms, on the other hand, dooms all of us to continue granting Israel and its supporters the power to accomplish the process of negating Palestinian identity and nationhood.

It is the intention of this conference to underscore the reality we are facing by: first, examining and illuminating current Palestinian existence in historic Palestine; second, by truthfully and candidly pursuing the historical process of the Judaization of the country; and third, by exploring the roles available to people seeking justice for the Palestinian people.

 


 


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2009 Conference Agenda

 9:00-9:10 Welcome Remarks
  Dr. Subhi Ali
  Chairman, The Jerusalem Fund Board of Directors
  
9:10- 9:30 Introduction and Rationale
  Dr. Naseer Aruri
  Conference Program Chair
  
9:30-10:45 Panel I: Erasure Before and After 1967
  Chair: Ms. Nadia Hijab
   Senior Fellow, Institute for Palestine Studies
  
  A. Gaza and Israel's Long-term Objective
  Ms. Jennifer Loewenstein
  Faculty Associate of Middle East Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  
  B. The Erasure of the Palestinian State Project
  Dr. Leila Farsakh
  Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts-Boston
  Ms. Phyllis Bennis
  Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies
  
 10:45-11:00 Break
  Coffee, Juice, Pastries
  
 11:00-12:30 Panel II: Shrinking Space and Colonization
  Chair: Dr. Eid Mustafa
  Treasurer, The Jerusalem Fund Board of Directors
  
  A. Bantustanization:  The Wall, Settlements and Colonization
  Dr. Laurie King
  Adjunct Professor of Popular Culture, Georgetown University
  
  B. Greater Jerusalem:  What Is It?
  Mr. Will Youmans

 New Media Consultant, The Jerusalem Fund
  
 12:30-1:30 Lunch
  
   1:30-3:00 Panel III: National Fragmentation and Cohesion
 
 Chair: Dr. Halim Barakat

 Scholar of Sociology and Novelist
 
 
  A. Identity Card:  Darwish and National Assertion-Presence in the Shadow of Erasure
  Dr. Elliott Colla
  Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Georgetown University
  
  B. Palestinian Existence (wujud):  Grassroots Activism and Solidarity
  Mr. Ali Abunimah
  Author and Journalist
  
 3:00-4:15 Final Remarks: The Role of the International Community in the Erasure
  Chair: Ms. Phyllis Bennis
  Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies
  
  A. The Role of the United Nations and International Law
  Ms. Susan Akram

 Clinical Professor of Law, Boston University

 
  B. United States Policy and Palestine:  Oslo, the Intifada and Erasure
  Dr. Naseer Aruri
 

 Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

  
 
 4:15-5:00 Discussion










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