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Resisting Israeli Apartheid: Strategies and Principles

International Conference

5 December 2004, London

Proceedings

See also articles in WRMEA, Stop the Wall Campaign, Electronic Intifada & Open Democracy

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Welcome Address

Victoria Brittain, UK

Partition and Literature: Reflections. Palestine/Israel and Nortehrn Ireland

Tom Paulin, Oxford University, UK

The Cultural and Academic Boycott of Israel

Lisa Taraki, Palestine

Divestment: Isolating Apartheid Financially

Lawrence Davidson, USA

The Boycott Israeli Goods (BIG) Campaign

Betty Hunter, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, UK

Boycott as Resistance: The Moral Dimension

Omar Barghouti, Palestine

The Meaning and Objectives of Boycott
Ilan Pappe, Israel

Resisting Apartheid and the Charge of Anti-Semitism

Ur Shlonsky, Switzerland

On the Distinction between Institutions and Individuals
Mona Baker, UK

Settler Colonialism as Genocide: Implications for a Strategy of Solidarity with the Palestinians

John Docker, Australia

Building the Academic Boycott in Britain

Hilary Rose, BRICUP, UK

Stand Up and Be Counted

Haim Bresheeth, UK

The Role of Students: Lessons from South Africa

Ben Young, UK

Summary of the Day

Ilan Pappe, Israel

SPEAK OUT
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

2003

And a vast paranoia    sweeps across the land
And America turns the    attack on its Twin Towers
Into the beginning of the    Third World War
The war with the Third    World

And the terrorists in    Washington
Are shipping out the young    men
To the killing fields again

And no one speaks

And they are rousting out
All the ones with turbans
And they are flushing out
All the strange immigrants

And they are shipping all    the young men
To the killing fields again

And no one speaks

And when they come to    round up
All the great writers and    poets and painters
The National Endowment of    the Arts of Complacency
Will not speak

While all the young men
Will be killing all the young    men
In the killing fields again

So now is the time for you    to speak
All you lovers of liberty
All you lovers of the pursuit    of happiness
All you lovers and sleepers
Deep in your private dream
Now is the time for you to    speak
O silent majority
Before they come for you!


"There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?"




"The great failure in what the US is doing is that it tries to win a battle through military power and brutality, ... But history has a way of coming back, and it is the role of the intellectual to bring it back."
Edward Said, March 2003
To the 'Progressive Except on Palestine' Mob
By Ghassan Hage

Forget about the Zionist reactionaries and the racists. I want to talk to you, who is not one. What’s it about Palestine that brings out between us, us who share so much, a difference that appears as if insurmountable?

As if out of nowhere, years of common philosophies, of common beliefs in social justice, of common struggles in which we were one… fade. Even the domain of global warming that so irretrievably unites us is suddenly traversed by an icy wind that comes between us. When Palestine imposes itself as the centre of our concern and we start, wherever we are, circling in its orbit, it lays us bare to each other.

And it becomes clear to me that the Palestinian wound does not penetrate you the way it penetrates me…

Has this not to do with Palestine being the ground zero of colonialism today? Where the last vestiges of that enduring Euro-American venture are still striving to realise themselves, and where they continuously face their impossibility?

Suddenly I can see that you are still the inheritor of the victor’s position in this long colonial history. It still directs your gaze as it still shapes your emotions.

I start hearing a little colonial white supremacist frisson oozing out of your pronouncements: in the way you care and in the way you don’t care. But you’ve lost your once compelling normative allure. It is you who needs to change. It is you who needs to make one more effort on the road to becoming what American radicals so aptly call ‘a race traitor’. For I KNOW that I am where one should be: with Palestine and the possibility of its plurality.

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