DAY 1 (29/11/2019)
15:00 – 15:45 Opening Statement
Atty. Ali Kurt, President, The Union of NGOs of the Islamic World
Dr. Rima Khalaf, President, Global Organization against Racial Discrimination & Segregation
Keynote Speeches:
Archbishop Attalah Hanna, Archbishop of Sebastia from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem
Adnan Tanriverdi, Chief Advisor of the President of Turkey
16:00 – 18:00 Plenary session I: The Israeli apartheid regime and its Impact on our Understanding of the Conflict and the Paths to its Resolution
Chair: Professor Nadim Rouhana
- Israeli policies and practices and the question of apartheid
Professor Richard Falk
- Implications of the apartheid paradigm: rethinking the conflict, its origins and its resolution
Professor Virginia Tilley
- Israeli policies of racial discrimination and segregation in Palestinian territories occupied in 1967
Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi
- Denial of Palestinian refugees’ and exiles’ the right to return: the most overtly racist policy
Professor Joseph Massad
Open discussion
DAY 2 (30/11/2019)
9:00 – 11:00 Plenary session II: Dimensions, Tools, and Repercussions of Israeli Apartheid
Chair: Professor Kamel Hawwash, Chair of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, UK
- Palestinian citizens of Israel: institutionalized discrimination and struggle for equality
Dr. Mohannad Mustafa, General Manager of Mada Al-Carmel
- Israeli Apartheid in the earlier years(1948-1966): its objectives and tools, and the Palestinian Struggle to survive it
Professor Adel Manna, Palestinian History Professor
- Palestinians in the territories occupied since 1967 in the face of direct military occupation and racial discrimination
Atty. Cavit Tatli, Lawyer and President of Jurists Association
- Palestinians in Jerusalem and the overt displacement policies
Professor Rasem Khamaisi, CPS Center for Planning and Studies
- Policies of impoverishment and economic dependency for control and domination in Palestine
Dr. Mohammed Samhouri
Open discussion
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30 – 13:30 Plenary session III: Consequences of Apartheid and Implications for the region
Chair: Atty. Mohammad Mattar, Lawyer, Lebanon
- Repercussions of Israeli apartheid on the value system in Palestine/Israel, and the region
Professor Elia Zureik, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada
- Israel’s new Basic Law: Israel as the Nation State of the Jewish People, and its implications on the peace treaties and agreements signed by Israel with Jordan, Egypt, and the PLO
Dr. Anis Kassim
- Racial discrimination and segregation in Palestine, from the perspective of international human rights law
Atty. Suleyman Arslan – Lawyer, Turkey
- Apartheid is a Crime, Victims and Witnesses in Palestine
Mats Svensson
Open discussion
13:30-15:00 Lunch break
15:00-17:30 Plenary Session IV: Strategies and Paths for the Struggle Against Israeli Apartheid
Chair: Professor Refik Korkusuz, Dean of Humanities Faculty, Turkey
- Apartheid, occupation, and settler colonialism: Palestinian strategies for liberation and attaining justice
Ali Abu Nimah, co-founder and executive director of The Electronic Intifada
- Role of civil society organizations and youth movements around the world in combating the Israeli apartheid regime
Marie Crawley, Chair of the Ireland Palestine Alliance, Sadaka
- Role of the Palestine Liberation Organization in dismantling the Israeli apartheid regime
Hani Al-Masri, director general of Masarat, the Palestinian Centre for Policy Research and Strategic Studies
- BDS and the role of advocacy in the struggle to combat apartheid
Tisetso Magama, BDS SA Board Member
- Dismantling the Israeli Apartheid Regime as a precondition for justice, equality, and peace for all
Haneen Zoabi, former Arab member of the Israeli Knesset
Open discussion
17:30-18:30 Concluding Session, Dr. Tamim Barghouti