The main topic of the meeting will be an analysis of the evolution of Israeli politics towards Palestinian people in the context of international law, the human rights convention and the United Nations' resolution. The conflict's history will be the background for reconstructing developing forms of the occupation regime and national security politics. Comparing with the policy of the Republic of South Africa in the apartheid period does not serve spinning historically unauthorized identifications, but it aims at pointing out the clear tendency to decide by Israel on solutions driving to the permanent isolation of Palestinian and Jewish citizens of Israel, and to prioritizing the population remaining under the Israel's control (both in its borders from 1967 and on the occupied territories) according to the ethnic-religious key. The analysis of these tendencies will be accompanied by the attempt to outline the alternative solution which emerge from the programmes and the activity of Israeli, Palestinian and primarily Palestinian-Israeli organizations for human rights and civil society.
*Ben White is a British journalist and writer specializing in the Near-East issues. He publishes in "Guardian" online, "The New Satesman", "Electronic Intifad", "Washington Report on Middle East Affairs", "Middle East International".
In 2009 he published a famous book titled "Israeli Apartheid". The book got approving reviews from such personalities as the Nobel Piece Prize laureate and the South-Africa archbishop Desmond Tutu, or the highly regarded Israeli historian Ilan Pape.
The meeting is organized in cooperation with the Socio-Cultural Association of Polish Palestinians, the Polish edition of "Le Monde Diplomatique" monthly, and the Polish Campaign for Solidarity with Palestine. Konrad Pędziwiatr will be the meeting leader .
21th January, 5pm, the TEU assembly hall, Westerplatte 11 street
*The meeting will be translated consecutively.