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GLOBAL

ANTI-APARTHEID

CONFERENCE

GLOBAL ANTI-APARTHEID CONFERENCE ON PALESTINE AND AGAINST ISRAELI APARTHEID

10 - 12th MAY 2024 Venue: Sandton Convention Centre

“We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians” – Nelson Mandela
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STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

The aim of the conference is to set the basis for the mobilisation of a Global Anti-Apartheid Movement to hold Israel accountable for its crimes against the Palestinian people, and to work to dismantle Israeli apartheid from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. This will see an intensification of the mobilisation, organisation and coordination for global action against Israeli apartheid. The conference objectives are to:

Developing and Implementing

Develop political, legal, public diplomacy and media plans to further isolate Israel’s regime of oppression and hold it accountable, including to support or otherwise help initiate policy-level campaigns and lobbying efforts aimed at pressuring the UN, regional bodies, and states to impose targeted, lawful sanctions (starting with a comprehensive military embargo) as was done against apartheid South Africa;

Plan of Action

Determine a programme of action for the global front to dismantle Israeli apartheid including the drafting and announcement of the Johannesburg Anti-Apartheid Declaration as a tool for mobilisation, organisation, and action. The programme of action will include supporting bodies at global, regional and grassroots levels to advance anti-apartheid mobilisation and campaigns against Israel

Practical Guide

Determine a programme of action to pressure international organisations, including those concerned with international law, to address Israel’s occupation, colonialism, apartheid and genocide against Palestinians by holding the Israeli state and Israeli perpetrators of crimes fully accountable

Comprehensive Guide

Work towards developing a coordination and communication infrastructure for the global movement to take forward the objectives and programme of action.

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Event

Schedules

3 days 2 nights
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  • Day of arrival 09 May


  • Friday 10 May


  • Programme Director: Dudu Mahlangu-Masango
    Welcome, Introduction to conference: Frank Chikane (Rev)
    Opening Address:
    Dr GNM Pandor, Minister of International Relations and Cooperation

  • 1. Palestine and the Zionist project in the global context - Declan Kearney
    2. 75 years of Israeli occupation, colonialism, apartheid, and genocide - Mustafa Barghouti
    3. Israel’s crimes of apartheid - Saleh Hijazi
    4. Dimensions of the Palestinian struggle for national liberation and to dismantle occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid - Lamis Deek, Ronnie Kasrils
    Q&A and Discussion
    Where
    Hall 1, Building A

  • Programme Director:
    Testimonies by: Shireen Hilal (West Bank/Video), Mohannad al-Qaisi (West Bank), Ahmad Nasrallah (Gaza judge), Sara Imad (Palestinian Feminist Collective), Ali Abdullah (West Bank-prisoners)

  • International solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for liberation and return and to dismantle settler-colonial apartheid
    Programme director:
    Speakers: Salman Abu Sitta, Na’eem Jeenah
    Q&A and Discussion

  • Saturday 11 May


  • Legal, political, narrative and activism strategies to dismantle Israeli colonialism and apartheid
    Programme Director:
    Speakers: Raji Sourani, Zane Dangor, Ali Abunimah, Roshan Dadoo
    Q&A and Discussion

  • Workshop 1: Boycotts, divestment and sanctions – Naomi Barasa
    Workshop 2: Interfaith activities and campaigns – Munther Isaac, Osama Abuirshaid
    Workshop 3: Changing the narrative – Zarefa Baroud, Ramy Abdo
    Workshop 4: Actions in the legal and multilateral spheres – Huseyin Disli, Muhammad Makram Balawi
    Workshop 5: Palestinian popular and other struggles against settler colonialism and apartheid – Fadi Quran Workshop 6: Supporting Palestinian political prisoners and Humanitarian Support - Horst Kleinschmidt, Dr Ahmed

  • Reports-back from workshops and discussion

  • Regional workshops to lay the ground for coordinated campaigns
    • Africa – Zahir Rajan
    •Asia-Pacific – John Minto, Gauhar Iqbal
    •Arab world – Mariam Jaajaa
    •Latin America – Sayid Marcos Tenorio
    •North America – Lara Kiswani
    •Europe – Saif Abukeshek

  • Sunday 12 May


  • Speakers:
    Reading of ‘Declaration of the Conference’
    A Call for continued consultations on a global Anti-Apartheid Movement/Front
    Handover of Memorandum and Declaration to Presidency/DIRCO

  • Speakers:
    Handover of Memorandum and Declaration to Presidency
    Where
    Mandela Statue, Union Buildings, Pretoria

  • The final day Monday 13 May


  • Media conference: Announcement of declaration


Rev Frank Chikane speaking at the UN in Geneva

Global Anti-Apartheid Movement In Support Of Palestine

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Panel of Speakers

Dr GNM Pandor

MP, Minister of International Relations and Cooperation

REVEREND FRANK CHIKANE

Na’eem Jeenah

academic, anti-capitalist and anti-war movement

Salman Abu Sitta

Palestinian Researcher

Ronnie Kasrils

Former Minister of Intelligence Services of South Africa

Lamis Deek

Ali Abunimah

Zane Dangor

Special Adviser to the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation

Roshan Dadoo

Saif Abukeshek


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ANTI-APARTHEID

CONFERENCE

Towards a Global Movement to Dismantle Israeli’s Settler-Colonialism and Apartheid
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Date:   10 – 12 May 2024
Venue: Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa 

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