ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN VOICES IN DIALOGUE IN TIMES OF GENOCIDE IN GAZA

Tessa Szyszkowitz in conversation with Dani Gal, Guli
Dolev-Hashiloni and Atheer Elobadi





ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN VOICES IN DIALOGUE IN TIMES OF
GENOCIDE IN GAZA
Civil society activists on international solidarity and
the attempt to uphold the rule of international law


 


Israelis for Peace is as Berlin based group of Israeli activists.
These Israeli citizens, currently living in Germany, have come
together out of a strong sense of responsibility to contribute to
peace, equality, and justice for everyone living in
Israel-Palestine. Their engagement reflects the conviction that
voices from civil society can and must play a central role in
shaping a more just and peaceful future. Standing Together Vienna
is a Jewish-Arab alliance for peace in the Middle East. The group
is an initiative with members from different backgrounds that
promotes dialogue and co-existence as a means of achieving a just
peace in the Middle East.





The panel will discuss how this can be achieved in Austria and
Germany. The discussion will address some of the most pressing
issues of the present moment: the ongoing atrocities in Gaza, and
forms of protests inside Israel that often remain invisible in
the international debate. The event highlights non-violence,
justice, and democratic rights and underscores the importance of
transnational solidarity and civic courage in times of crisis.





Dani Gal, (* 1975, Jerusalem) lives and works in
Berlin. He studied at Bezalel Academy for Art and Design in
Jerusalem, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste
Stäadelschule in Frankfurt and in Cooper Union in New York. His
films and installations have been shown at the 54th Venice
Biennale (2011), Istanbul Biennale (2011), New Museum New York
(2012), Kunsthalle St. Gallen Switzerland (2013), The Jewish
Museum New York (2014), Berlinale Forum Expanded (2014),
Kunsthaus Zurich (2015) Kunsthalle Wien (2015), Documenta 14
(2017), Centre Pompidou (2018, 2023) and at Club TransMediale
Festival Berlin (2020).


-In 2024-25 Gal was  Fellow in the Centre for Advanced
Studies INHERIT. Heritage in Transformation ist ein vom BMBF
gefördertes Käte Hamburger Kolleg –  Humboldt-Universität zu
Berlin.


– In 2019 he was artist-in-residence with Blood Mountain Projects
and research fellows at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute.





Guli Dolev – Hashiloni is a writer and
researcher based in Berlin. He is a founding member of Israelis
from Peace, holds an MA in Contemporary Middle East Politics
(University of Haifa) and an MA in Global History (Freie
Universität Berlin) and translates from German and Yiddish to
Hebrew. He is a current fellow at the LABA residency in
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, and his debut novel „Tsulul“, taking
place in a human rights NGO based in Tel-Aviv, came out earlier
this year in Hebrew.





Atheer Elobadi is a Palestinian and Israeli
citizen who grew up in Tira, Israel, where he became politically
active early on. He left Israel in 2008 and moved to Austria in
2009, where he became involved in social and political movements,
including the organisation “Vielmehr für alle” and refugee and
homeless aid. He is a co-founder of Standing Together Vienna, an
initiative that promotes dialogue and cooperation between
Israelis and Palestinians as well as the promotion of peace,
justice and equality. He is also a member of the
artistic-political collective OneState Embassy, which uses
performative art and diplomatic interventions to challenge
political structures, promote intercultural dialogue and explore
new forms of belonging beyond nation states.





Tessa Szyszkowitz, Austrian journalist and
author, is a UK correspondent for Austrian weekly Falter and
other German and Swiss publications. She curates Philoxenia at
Kreiskyforum and she is a Distinguished Fellow of the Royal
United Services Institute in London. Her book “Der
Friedenskämpfer” (2011) was a biography of Issam Sartawi, a
Palestinian politician who tried to establish dialogue with
Israelis with support of Bruno Kreisky.