67. Filistin ‘Nakba Gunu’ Etkinlikleri

67. Filistin ‘Nakba Gunu’ Etkinlikleri

67. Filistin ‘Nakba Gunu’ Etkinlikleri

By : Jadaliyya Reports

67. Filistin “Nakba Günü” Etkinlikleri

15 Mayıs 1948; İsrail bağımsızlığının değil Siyonist işgalin yıldönümü

15 Mayıs 1948’de modern tarihin en önemli felaketlerinden biri yaşandı. O gün bir milyona yakın Filistinli, İsrail silahlı güçleri tarafından, tarihsel Filistin’deki evlerinden zorla çıkartıldı ya da kaçmak zorunda kaldı. Bu olayın öncesinde birçok köyde aynı güçler tarafından katliamlar yapılmıştı. Birçok Filistinli terk ettikleri evlerine bir süre sonra dönebileceklerini düşünüyordu. Aradan 67 yıl geçti, dönemediler. Büyük Felaket yani Nakba, Filistin’de ve dünyanın her yerinde Filistinliler ve Filistin halkının dostları tarafından her yıl lanetleniyor, işgalci, apartheid İsrail rejimi protesto ediliyor.

Öte yandan, 15 Mayıs 1948, İsrail’de ve dünyanın pek çok yerinde bulunan İsrail elçiliklerinde İsrail’in kuruluş günü olarak kutlanıyor. Türkiye’de de bulunan İsrail temsilciliklerinde her yıl, Filistinlilerin evlerinden, yurtlarından sürülmesi, katledilmesi törenlerle kutlanıyor. Çünkü Türkiye, hükümet ve devlet yetkililerinin sert açıklamalarına rağmen, İsrail’le diplomatik ilişkilerini kesmiyor.

Sadece diplomatik ilişkiler de değil, Türkiye ve İsrail arasında, halka açıklanmayan askeri anlaşmalar, akademik ve kültürel ilişkiler sürüyor. Birçok kaynak, İsrail ve Türkiye arasındaki ticaret hacminin son on yılda arttığını gösteriyor. Türkiye, başta Kürt halkına karşı kullandığı heronlar olmak üzere, İsrail silah sanayinin önemli müşterilerinden biri. Heron uçaklarının bilgi sistemleri halen İsrail’e bağlı ve Türkiye – İsrail arasında, Suriye ve Irak sınırında yapılan ortak istihbarat toplantılarıyla Türkiye İsrail’in Ortadoğu halklarına karşı düşmanca politikalarına ortak oluyor.

Şunu unutmayalım, Filistinlilerin büyük felaketine rağmen T.C. İsrail`i tanıyan ilk ülke olmuştur. Daha sonra da Ortadoğu’da bu gayrı meşru devletle ilk ticari ve diplomatik ilişki kuran devlet de T.C. oldu. Aynı zamanda, T.C. İsrail’le askeri ilişki kuran tek Ortadoğu devletidir. AKP Hükümetinin İsrail’e karşı sözde sert tutumuna rağmen son 10 yıldaki veriler Türkiye ve İsrail arasındaki ticaret hacminin sürekli arttığını göstermektedir. 2014 yılında ticaret hacmi 5,5 milyar doları aşmıştır. AKP hükümetinin bu ikiyüzlü tutumu, Siyonist İşgalci İsrail devletinin ekonomisini güçlendirerek Filistin halkının kendi topraklarında yaşadığı zulmün devam etmesine sebep olmaktadır.

Bizler, Filistin halkının dostları olarak, Filistin halkının, demokratik kitle örgütlerinin, siyasi örgütlerin 2005 yılında yaptığı çağrıyı dikkate alarak, İsrail Arap topraklarındaki işgal ve sömürgeleştirmeye son verene, İsrail’de yaşayan Arap-Filistinlilere yönelik ayrımcılığa son verilip, onların. Tarihsel Filistin toprağında yaşayan ve işgalci apartheid İsrail’in vatandaşı olan Yahudilerle eşit haklara sahip olması sağlanana ve BM. 194 sayılı kararı uyarınca, dünyanın her yerindeki Filistinlilerin geri dönüş hakkı tanınana kadar İsrail’le her türlü ekonomik, diplomatik, kültürel, akademik, siyasal, askeri ilişkinin boykot edilmesini, İsrail’e yaptırımlar uygulanmasını ve bu gayrı meşru devletle yatırımların geri çekilmesini istiyoruz.

Sizleri, Filistin’in sesini olmaya ve Filistin İçin İsrail`e Karşı Boykot Girişimi ve Türkiye’deki Filistin Diasporası olarak, İstanbul ve Ankara`da gerçekleştireceğimiz 67. Nakba Günü etkinliklerine katılmaya davet ediyoruz.

Filistin’e özgürlük, İsrail’e boykot

İstanbul

15 Mayıs Cuma

Türkiye’deki Filistin Diasporası basın açıklaması

Yer: İsrail Başkonsolosluğu, Levent Metro çıkışı, Yapı Kredi Plaza C Blok önü

Saat: 12.00 - 12.30

15 Mayıs Cuma

Belgesel gösterimi, sunum ve söyleşi 

-Kayıp Ülkeyle Karşılaşma/Encounter With a Lost Land

Yönetmen: Maryse Gargour

Yer: Tütün Deposu, Lüleci Hendek Cad, No. 12, Tophane

Saat: 19.00 – 21.30

Ankara

15 Mayıs Cuma

Filistin – Nakba tanıtım çadırı

Yer: Yüksel Caddesi, Kültür Mah. Çankaya

Saat: 13.00 – 16.00

16 Mayıs Cumartesi

Belgesel gösterimi, sunum ve söyleşi 

-Kayıp Ülkeyle Karşılaşma/Encounter With a Lost Land

Yönetmen: Maryse Gargour

Yer: Mülkiyeliler Birliği, Konur Sok. No: 1 Kızılay

Saat: 14.00 – 17.00

 

Filistin için İsrail’e Boykot Girişimi

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Past is Present: Settler Colonialism Matters!

On 5-6 March 2011, the Palestine Society at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London will hold its seventh annual conference, "Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine." This year`s conference aims to understand Zionism as a settler colonial project which has, for more than a century, subjected Palestine and Palestinians to a structural and violent form of destruction, dispossession, land appropriation and erasure in the pursuit of a new Jewish Israeli society. By organizing this conference, we hope to reclaim and revive the settler colonial paradigm and to outline its potential to inform and guide political strategy and mobilization.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is often described as unique and exceptional with little resemblance to other historical or ongoing colonial conflicts. Yet, for Zionism, like other settler colonial projects such as the British colonization of Ireland or European settlement of North America, South Africa or Australia, the imperative is to control the land and its resources -- and to displace the original inhabitants. Indeed, as conference keynote speaker Patrick Wolfe, one of the foremost scholars on settler colonialism and professor at La Trobe University in Victoria, Australia, argues, "the logic of this project, a sustained institutional tendency to eliminate the Indigenous population, informs a range of historical practices that might otherwise appear distinct--invasion is a structure not an event."[i]

Therefore, the classification of the Zionist movement as a settler colonial project, and the Israeli state as its manifestation, is not merely intended as a statement on the historical origins of Israel, nor as a rhetorical or polemical device. Rather, the aim is to highlight Zionism`s structural continuities and the ideology which informs Israeli policies and practices in Palestine and toward Palestinians everywhere. Thus, the Nakba -- whether viewed as a spontaneous, violent episode in war, or the implementation of a preconceived master plan -- should be understood as both the precondition for the creation of Israel and the logical outcome of Zionist settlement in Palestine.

Moreover, it is this same logic that sustains the continuation of the Nakba today. As remarked by Benny Morris, “had he [David Ben Gurion] carried out full expulsion--rather than partial--he would have stabilised the State of Israel for generations.”[ii] Yet, plagued by an “instability”--defined by the very existence of the Palestinian nation--Israel continues its daily state practices in its quest to fulfill Zionism’s logic to maximize the amount of land under its control with the minimum number of Palestinians on it. These practices take a painful array of manifestations: aerial and maritime bombardment, massacre and invasion, house demolitions, land theft, identity card confiscation, racist laws and loyalty tests, the wall, the siege on Gaza, cultural appropriation, and the dependence on willing (or unwilling) native collaboration and security arrangements, all with the continued support and backing of imperial power. 

Despite these enduring practices however, the settler colonial paradigm has largely fallen into disuse. As a paradigm, it once served as a primary ideological and political framework for all Palestinian political factions and trends, and informed the intellectual work of committed academics and revolutionary scholars, both Palestinians and Jews.

The conference thus asks where and why the settler colonial paradigm was lost, both in scholarship on Palestine and in politics; how do current analyses and theoretical trends that have arisen in its place address present and historical realities? While acknowledging the creativity of these new interpretations, we must nonetheless ask: when exactly did Palestinian natives find themselves in a "post-colonial" condition? When did the ongoing struggle over land become a "post-conflict" situation? When did Israel become a "post-Zionist" society? And when did the fortification of Palestinian ghettos and reservations become "state-building"?

In outlining settler colonialism as a central paradigm from which to understand Palestine, this conference re-invigorates it as a tool by which to analyze the present situation. In doing so, it contests solutions which accommodate Zionism, and more significantly, builds settler colonialism as a political analysis that can embolden and inform a strategy of active, mutual, and principled Palestinian alignment with the Arab struggle for self-determination, and indigenous struggles in the US, Latin America, Oceania, and elsewhere.

Such an alignment would expand the tools available to Palestinians and their solidarity movement, and reconnect the struggle to its own history of anti-colonial internationalism. At its core, this internationalism asserts that the Palestinian struggle against Zionist settler colonialism can only be won when it is embedded within, and empowered by, the broader Arab movement for emancipation and the indigenous, anti-racist and anti-colonial movement--from Arizona to Auckland.

SOAS Palestine Society invites everyone to join us at what promises to be a significant intervention in Palestine activism and scholarship.

For over 30 years, SOAS Palestine Society has heightened awareness and understanding of the Palestinian people, their rights, culture, and struggle for self-determination, amongst students, faculty, staff, and the broader public. SOAS Palestine society aims to continuously push the frontiers of discourse in an effort to make provocative arguments and to stimulate debate and organizing for justice in Palestine through relevant conferences, and events ranging from the intellectual and political impact of Edward Said`s life and work (2004), international law and the Palestine question (2005), the economy of Palestine and its occupation (2006), the one state (2007), 60 Years of Nakba, 60 Years of Resistance (2009), and most recently, the Left in Palestine (2010).

For more information on the SOAS Palestine Society 7th annual conference, Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine: www.soaspalsoc.org

SOAS Palestine Society Organizing Collective is a group of committed students that has undertaken to organize annual academic conferences on Palestine since 2003.

 


[i] Patrick Wolfe, Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology: The Politics and Poetics of an Ethnographic Event, Cassell, London, p. 163

[ii] Interview with Benny Morris, Survival of the Fittest, Haaretz, 9. January 2004, http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/art.php?aid=5412