THE LEFT IN PALESTINE / THE PALESTINIAN LEFT 27-28 February 2010,

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
 TicketsPlease note SEATS ARE LIMITED – book in advance
Price: £30 (£20 concessions, and £40 organisations)
All tickets include lunch and refreshments
To buy your tickets:Online - www.soaspalsoc. org  
By chequeSend cheque payable to SOAS Palestine Society with attached note of email address 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 inPalestine
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’s 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’s 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, Communist Party of Israel)Title tbc

Ahmad Sa’di (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 Mizrahim 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’in: The Israeli Radical Left Joins the Palestinian Popular 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 Jaradat