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Beautiful Glen Prosen, just north of Kirriemuir

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

Racism in the State of Israel and the World Zionist Movement, Israel Shahak
Moshe Machover, Is it apartheid?
A Zionist view

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

The Decline of the Anti-war Movement, the Issue of Palestine & Arab Resistance to Occupation, SPSC delegates to Cairo Conference, 2008

Palestinian resistance – civil society & the BNC

The Palestinian Resistance; Its Legitimate Right and the Moral Duty, Samah Jabr
Let’s Talk about Resistance, Natalie Abu Shakra
Mercaz HaRav - a training centre for illegal occupation, murder and "Arabs to the Gas Chambers" , Mick Napier

Hamas

We will not sell our people or principles for foreign aid,Khalid Meshaal

Hezbollah

Palestinian self determination, solutions

What is the Palestinian Authority?

Palestine solidarity in Britain: What is our role?

Zionist think tank fears BDS campaign 'can constrain' Israeli military operations in the future

Are we a human rights campaign only?

Human Rights Watch denying Palestinians the right to nonviolent resistance, Jonathan Cook

A peace campaign?

No Middle East Peace Without Justice, Robert Fisk

How do British political formations line up on the issue of Palestine?

Does the UK Israel lobby determine UK policy?

Pulse on Britain’s Israel Lobby

The JNF

Call for an international campaign against the Jewish National Fund

How do we relate to the Media?

Zionism – before the rise of Hitler

Zionism and Anti-Semitism Prior to the Holocaust, Lenni Brenner

Zionism – right & left

'Left' Hapoel Tel Aviv - the 'left wing' of ethnic cleansing and genocide
'Right' Rabin's Murder Rooted in Zionism's Violent Legacy, Donald Neff

Zionism & anti-Semitism

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