THE LEFT IN PALESTINE / THE PALESTINIAN LEFT
Opening Session
Welcome Address: Hassan Hakimian (Director, London Middle East Institute)
Opening: Azmi Bishara (Former Knesset member in exile, writer and political leader) Speech delivered via video
The Left in British-Mandate Palestine
Chair: John Rose (SWP activist and independent researcher, London)
Musa Budeiri (Birzeit University) The Last Colonial Venture: Communists, Nationalists and Settlers in Palestine
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
History of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement
Chair: Gilbert Achcar (School of Oriental and African Studies)
Bashir Abu Manneh (Barnard College, New York) Problems of Palestinian Liberation
Fadle Naqib (University of Waterloo) The Economic Orientation of the Palestinian National Movement
Roger Heacock (Birzeit University) Stones, Bullets, Ballots: Intifada, An Unfinished Drama in Several Acts
Khaled Hroub (University of Cambridge) The Decline of Secular Nationalism and the Rise of Political Islam
The Left of the PLO in exile
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
The Left of the PLO – West Bank and Gaza Strip
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?
The Palestinian Left in the Israeli State
Chair: Bashir Abu-Manneh (Barnard College)
Areen Hawari (Co-founder of Tajamu and former member of its Politburo)
Balad (Tajamu): Democracy Confronts Zionism
Issam Makhoul (Chairman of the Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian and Israeli Studies)
Ahmad Sa’di (Ben Gurion University / speaking in his personal capacity ) Communism and Zionism: A Troubled Legacy
The Israeli Anti-Zionist Left
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
The Palestinian Left in Literature
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
Roundtable Discussion: Towards a New Left Programme for the Palestinian Struggle
Chair: Gilbert Achcar
Aida Touma-Sliman, Areen Hawari, Jamal Juma, Jamil Hilal and Muhammad Jaradat
