
13-15 August, Glen Prosen youth hostel / camping in Scottish highlands
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‘Ideas for a Successful Palestine Solidarity Campaign’
Provisional timetable:
Friday
7.00pm Israel & Palestine - introductory discussion
- What is Israel? A settler colonial state? Apartheid? Something worse? Democratic?
- Is Israel guilty of ethnic cleansing and/or genocide?
- The US-Israeli relationship – Is Israel still a strategic asset to the USA?
- Israel/Palestine and the wider drive to war
Saturday
9.00am Palestine
- (How) Can Palestinians ever win their freedom?
- Palestinian resistance – civil society & the BNC
- Resistance – Hamas & Hezbollah
- Palestinian self determination, the ‘two-state solution’, and alternatives.
- What is the Palestinian Authority?
11.00am Palestine solidarity in Britain
- What is our role now that Israel is widely seen as a pariah state
- How do British political formations line up on the issue of Palestine?
- Does the UK Israel lobby determine UK policy?
- British Government complicity abroad and repression of solidarity at home
- The JNF
1-2.30 Lunch
2.30pm Campaigning issues
- Who are our audience?
- How do we relate to the Media?
- Lobbying elected representatives
4.30pm Reflections on the event so far
Sunday
10.00am Zionism
- Zionism from Herzl to Netanyahu
- The JNF, Histadrut and other Zionist para-Statals
- Zionism – right & left
- Zionism & anti-Semitism
12-1 Reflections on the event
1.00pm END
Suggested reading list for those in a hurry!
Israel: a settler colonial state
Is Israel guilty of ethnic cleansing and/or genocide?
The US-Israeli relationship – Is Israel still a strategic asset to the USA?
Palestine solidarity and the wider drive to war
Palestinian resistance – civil society & the BNC
Hamas
Hezbollah
Palestinian self determination, solutions
What is the Palestinian Authority?
Palestine solidarity in Britain: What is our role?
Are we a human rights campaign only?
A peace campaign?
How do British political formations line up on the issue of Palestine?
Does the UK Israel lobby determine UK policy?
The JNF
How do we relate to the Media?
Zionism – before the rise of Hitler
Zionism – right & left
Zionism & anti-Semitism