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Drawing of the projected town of Al-Lajun, between Latrun and Umm al-Fahm, a project by the young architect Shadi Habib-Allah.
I wanted to write something about the second conference of Zochrot, a small but remarkable Israeli society of people who keep alive the memory of the Palestinian world that was before 1947-1949, in order to make Israeli's realize - and ultimately redress - the injustice that was done to the Palestinians during what Israeli's call the 'War of Independence' and Palestinians their 'nakba'.
Reports about the conference were scarce, but all of a sudden just before and during this weekend there appeared a number of articles. Like this one by Tamar Zandberg, a member of the Israeli parliament for the leftist Meretz-party:
''The conference was held at the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv - or, as Zochrot calls it, al-Shaykh Muwannis (a Palestinian village that was located in the Ramat Aviv area before the founding of the State of Israel) last Sunday and Monday (29 adn 30 September, AbuP.). Zochrot said the multidisciplinary conference was planned to "discuss practical aspects of the return of Palestinian refugees grounded in the transitional justice principles of acknowledgement, accountability and a joint Jewish-Palestinian process of redress."
''This was Zochrot's second such conference. It was not dedicated to the debate over the right of return in itself, but to a concrete discussion of ways to implement the return, in both a symbolic and concrete fashion - culturally, diplomatically and spatially.''
