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The Erasure of Palestine
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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.
REGISTRATION IS
CLOSED |
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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| B. Greater
Jerusalem: What Is
It? | |
| Mr. Will
Youmans | |
| New Media
Consultant, The Jerusalem
Fund | |
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| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch |
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| 1:30-3:00 | Panel III: National
Fragmentation and
Cohesion |
| | Chair: Dr. Halim
Barakat |
| Scholar of Sociology
and
Novelist | |
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| 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 | |
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| B. Palestinian
Existence (wujud): Grassroots
Activism and
Solidarity | |
| Mr. Ali
Abunimah | |
| Author and
Journalist | |
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| 3:00-4:15 | Final Remarks: The
Role of the International Community in the
Erasure |
| Chair:
Ms. Phyllis
Bennis | |
| Fellow, Institute for
Policy
Studies | |
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| A. The Role of the United Nations and International Law | |
| Ms. Susan Akram | |
| Clinical Professor of Law, Boston University | |
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| B.
United
States Policy and Palestine: Oslo, the
Intifada and
Erasure | |
| Dr. Naseer Aruri | |
Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth | |
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| 4:15-5:00 | Discussion |