P a rticipation fee Conference location Participation fee and catering (including lunch and dinner, Waldheim Gaisburg Palestine Solidarity without accomodation and breakfast) Obere Neue Halde 1 For Organisations: 50,00 €/Person 70186 - Conference in Stuttgart Standard: 40,00 €/Person Students: 30,00 €/Person th th Felicia Langer will chair the conference 26 to 28 H o t e l s A well-known lawyer and famous human rights activist. She has November 2010 We can arrange rooms (mostly double rooms) in hotels or defended accused , fought against land confiscation, guest houses near the conference location (prices vary from house demolition, deportation, torture, denial of documents etc. 25,00 € to 35,00 € per person/per night including breakfast) She has published numerous books which were translated into various languages In 1990 she received the Alternative Nobel Separated in the Past - Peace Prize (Right Livelihood Award) and became an honorary R e g i s t e r a t i o n citizen of the city of Nazareth; in 1991 the Bruno-Kreisky- Together in the Future Foundation honoured her with their award of merit for services to Registration is possible until mid-October 2010 human rights. In March 2005, Felicia Langer was awarded with the “Erich-Mühsam-Prize” for her continuous struggle for the Obstacles and Perspectives Registration per Email: [email protected] human rights of the Palestinian people. In 2009 she also received Registration per Fax: +49 (0711) 429838 the Bundesverdienstkreuz 1.Klasse.) for a Just Solution

Together with the confirmation of your registration you will get our bank details. Only after the participation fee has been Getting to the Conference location transferred (plus, if you book a hotel, the costs for the hotel) will your registration be complete. Public Transport: Take U 15 at main train station in the direction of Ruhbank (Fernsehturm) or Heumaden. Get off at Geroksruhe from where we will organize further transport. I n q u i e r i e s By car from city centre: Turn into Pflasteräckerstrasse at the Attia Rajab (Palästinakomitee Stuttgart) second traffic light after Wagenburgtunnel. At the end of the Tel.: 0711 76 41 26 or Mobil: 01766 480 72 34 street turn into Hornbergstrasse and then immideately into Bruckenschlegel. Follow the street upwards to Waldheim Email: [email protected] Gaisburg.

Conference Management By car from above: At Geroksruhe turn to the right in the direc- tion Wangener Höhe. Turn left at the sports ground and drive Attia Rajab down hill to Waldheim Gaisburg. Ian Portman (Palästinakomitee Stuttgart) S u p p o r ted by: Conference languages are German and English with simultanuous translation in the plenum. ● Palestine-Middle-East-Initiative, Heidelberg ● Flüchtlingskinder im Libanon e. V. (Association for Refugee Children in Lebanon) ● The German Party "DIE LINKE" Stuttgart Group ● The Jewish-Arab and Free Citizens‘ Collective for Freedom in Palestine, Strasbourg (Collectif Judéo Arabe et Palästinakomitee Stuttgart – Citoyens pour la Paix, Strasbourg) Organized by Palestine Solidarity palaestinakomitee-stuttgart.de ● Revd (ret.) Karl Schmidt: Founder of the “Free Nelson Mandela” movement and one of the founders of the Anti- Committee in Stuttgart, Germany Apartheid-Movement (AAB) in Western Germany p a l a e s t i n a k o m i t e e - s t u t t g a rt. d e Visdp: Palästinakomitee Stuttgart c/o M. Kunkel, Rosengartenstr. 80, 70184 Stuttgart ● SALAM SHALOM Palestine - Israel Work Group e.V. Munich ● Café Palestine Freiburg Palestine Solidarity Conference in Stuttgart Saturday 27t h November 2010 Evelyn Hecht-Galinski (Publicist - Malsburg-Marzell) The Difference between Anti-Zionism and Antijudaism and The unresolved conflict between the State of Israel and the 8.30 am Coffee, Tea and Refreshments the Necessity to critizise the Racism within the State of Israel Palestinians has already lead to several wars and is an obstacle also in Germany to development in the whole region. A just solution on the basis 9 am of international law seems impossible. Annette Groth (Speaker for Human Rights Policy of the Chair: Joachim Guillard (Author, expert for Middle East DIE LINKE party in the German Federal Parliament - Stuttgart) politics, Heidelberg) Hopes for a two-state solution during the Oslo peace negotia- The Responsibility of the Germans towards the Palestinians tions during the 90s were shattered due to the lack of willingness and the Consequences for the German Left 6.15 pm Dinner of Israel to accept a viable Palestinian state. Jörg Lang (German lawyer and activist for Palestinian rights, 8 pm The recent increase of the national-religious and radical right in Stuttgart) Julianna Herzberg (Actress - Stuttgart) Israel exacerbates the situation of the Palestinians and the neigh- The German Left, and Solidarity with the A Journey to (Play) bouring states. Israel has little to fear from influential parties and Palestinians (Experience from the 60s until now) Stage director: Veronika Steinböck politicians in Germany. Despite frequent military engagements Samir Mansour (Palestinian Musician and Composer - Stuttgart) and occupations, Germany continues to arm that state with sub- Chair: Gabi Weber (Medical scientist, Café Palestine - Freiburg) Arab music with his Ensemble stantial military equipment. In the economic and political sphe- res, most federal politicians appear blind to the human rights vio- 10.45 am Coffee, Tea and Refreshments t h lations of the Israeli state. Seeking to justify this attitude with refe- Sunday 28 November 2010 rence to the Nazi terror regime is quite inappropriate since this 11.15 am moral burden sets for Germany an especially high standard in Ilan Pappe (Historian of the Middle East, Exeter University - UK) 8.30 pm Coffee, Tea and Refreshments respect for human rights – particularly when violations are asso- Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine and the Palestinians’ Right ciated with ethnic cleansing and the displacement of populations. of Return 9 pm Ali Abunimah (Palestinian-American journalist, co-founder Our conference will seek to make clear the causes of the dis- Ali Abunimah (Palestinian-American journalist, co-founder of Electronic Intifada, Chicago - USA) astrous course of events in the so-called Middle-East conflict. We of Electronic Intifada, Chicago - USA) International Strategies and Concepts for the Support of will assess the chances for a one-state solution which we consider A One State Solution in Palestine/Israel and a Just Peace Civil Resistance in Palestine to be the most humane and realistic model available. We will also discuss what practical measures we in Germany can take to Chair: Sophia Deeg (Author and Journalist - Berlin) Norman Paech (Professor for international law emeritus and support the civil resistance of the Palestinians against occupation former member of the German Parliament - Hamburg) and discrimination. In our view, here we see the best chance 1 pm Lunch The role of international law in the conflict and the resulting eventually to achieve a just solution. perspectives for actions (especially for Initiatives against the 2.15 pm Armament Cooperation with Israel Rawiya Shanty (Forensic psychologist and activist - Paris) The Apartheid Laws against the Palestinians in Israel and Chair: Mohammad Maraqtan (Middle Eastern Studies - 6F rpmid aRyegis 26trationt h No vandem Dbinneer 2r 010 the Civilian Popular Resistance University of Mainz)

6 pm Registration and Dinner Attia Rajab (Civil engineer - Stuttgart) and 10.45 pm Coffee, Tea and Refreshments Verena Rajab (Journalist - Stuttgart) 7.30 pm The “Wald deutscher Länder” (The Forest of Ambassadors 11.15 pm Verena Rajab (Journalist, Palestine Soldarity Committee Stuttgart) in Negev) and the Policy of the Jewish National Fund in the Final Discussion with Felicia Langer (Protectress of the conference, Negev towards the Palestinians Mit Ilan Pappe, Mazin Qumsiyeh, Evelyn Hecht-Galinski, Israeli lawyer and human rights activist - Tübingen) Haider Eid, Annette Groth and Ali Abunimah Opening – Introductory Remarks Chair: Johannes Schmidt (Psychologist and member of the executive board of the party DIE LINKE Stuttgart) Perspectives and Obstacles for a Just Solution in 8 pm Palestine/Israel Mazin Qumsiyeh (Birzeit University Ramallah - Palestine) 4 pm Coffee, Tea and Refreshments Civilian resistance against occupation and apartheid Chair: Roberto Sanchez (Journalist - Stuttgart) 4.30 Haidar Eid (Al Aqsa University Gaza - Palestine) Ilan Pappe (Historian of the Middle East, Exeter University - UK) 13.15 pm Lunch (End of conference) Analogies between Apartheid Southafrica and Israel Zionist Ideology in Israel and its overcome and the current situation in Palestine

Chair: Palestine Soldarity Committee