The ACT Organization hosts Professor Ilan Pappe to talk about the future of the Palestinian cause.

On Sunday, January 28th, 2024 the ACT Organization for Conflict Resolution held a symposium on the topic of the future of the Palestinian cause via Zoom.

The ACT Organization hosted the famous historian Professor Ilan Pappe, who is descended from Jewish parents of German origin who had fled the Nazi persecution of the Jewish people in the 1930s. Ilan Pappe became a senior lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern History and the Department of Political Science at the University of Haifa between 1984 and 2006. The university asked him to leave because of his support for the boycott of Israeli universities, and he was forced to leave occupied Palestine after he began receiving threats every day because of his positions in support of Palestinian rights, most notably the right of return, and also because of his exposure of the ongoing Zionist crimes against the Palestinian people. This symposium was moderated by Mr. Hazem al-Qawasmi, a community activist in Jerusalem.

Professor Ilan Pappe spoke explicitly about the ugliness of Zionism, the inability to coexist with it, and the necessity of dismantling the racist Zionist project that aims to eliminate the Palestinian people and their cause, either through killing or displacement. Pappe stated that what is happening in Gaza today is a continuation of what the Zionist founders started, as they did not succeed in completely eliminating the Palestinian people in 1948 and in the successive wars and uprisings, and they will continue their attempts because that is their declared goal, which is no longer a secret to anyone. Pappe pointed out that over the past decades, the Palestinian National Movement has been able to renew itself and its vitality after every calamity, and it now needs this renewal by the Palestinian youth and their involvement in the first ranks of the leadership. Professor Ilan Pappe confirmed that he believes that we are now at the beginning of the collapse of the Zionist project, and it is a matter of time until justice is achieved, Zionism is defeated, and the Palestinian people are liberated. 

More than one hundred participants from Palestine and abroad participated in this meeting, and many questions were asked, which enriched this session with discussion.
We note that the ACT Conflict Resolution Organization holds its dialogue sessions periodically on all topics related to conflicts with the aim of raising community awareness and highlighting important topics.

To watch the symposium, click here.