Jabareen & Raz-Krakotzkin

Wednesday, 11 May 2016, 5.00 pm - 6.30 pm |
Forum Transregionale Studien, Wallotstr. 14, 14193 Berlin

Visions for Democracy in Israel/Palestine


Hassan Jabareen

(Adalah, Jerusalem / Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 2015/16),
The Idea of Statehood

Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin
(Ben-Gurion University of the Negev / Member of EUME),
Decolonization and the Rights of the Jews

Chair: Roni Mann
(Barenboim-Said Akademie)

Hassan Jabareen (Adalah, Jerusalem / Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 2015/16) is a lawyer and a Palestinian citizen of Israel. He is the founder of Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, and has served as the General Director of the organization since its establishment in 1996. Jabareen has 20 years of experience in litigating scores of landmark constitutional law cases before the Israeli Supreme Court on issues of discrimination, political rights, land rights, and economic and social rights on behalf of Palestinian citizens of Israel as well as humanitarian cases involving the protection of Palestinian civilians living under occupation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Among his publications are:
•    "Hobbesian Citizenship: How the Palestinians Became a Minority in Israel." In Multiculturalism and Minority Rights in the Arab World, edited by Will Kymlicka and Eva Pföstl, 189-218. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
•    "Transnational Lawyering and Legal Resistance in National Courts: Palestinian Cases Before the Israeli Supreme Court." Yale Human Rights and Development Journal 13, 1 (2010): 65-83.
•    "The Future of Arab Citizenship in Israel: Jewish-Zionist Time in a Place With No Palestinian Memory." In Challenging Ethnic Citizenship: German and Israeli Perspectives on Immigration, edited by Daniel Levy and Yfaat Weiss, 196-220. New York: Berghahn, 2002.

Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev / Member of EUME) is Professor for Jewish History at the Department of Jewish History and chairs the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is also a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Raz-Krakotzkin studies both early modern Christian-Jewish discourse and Zionist historical consciousness.
Among his publications are: The Censor, the Editor and the Text: The Catholic Church and the Shaping of the Jewish Canon in the Sixteenth Century (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), for which he received the Zalman Shazar Prize for Jewish History, Exil et souveraineté. Judaïsme, sionisme et pensée binationale (La fabrique, 2007) and Exile and Bi-Nationalism: From Gershom Scholem to Edward Said(Carl Heinrich Becker Lecture of the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung 2011).

Roni Mann is the Director of Humanities at the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin, where she teaches philosophy to musicians from the Middle East. Previously she was a research fellow at the Social Science Research Center in Berlin (WZB). Her research interests are at the intersection of public law, history and political philosophy. She writes on the regulation of finance and on constitutional adjudication. She wrote her doctoral dissertation at Harvard Law School and taught numerous subjects at Harvard College and the Kennedy School of government.