Is It Too Early to Think of Peace?
Talk and Discussion 

Can Israelis and Palestinians speak of peace in the current moment? It seems obvious that Oslo-style two-state politics has run its course, and that the horrific violence unfolding in the region is evidence of this failure. But as the old Oslo paradigm is dying, can a new paradigm be born—do we have an alternative vision? And who is willing to have that conversation? Rula Hardal and Omri Boehm argue that it is not only possible but necessary and urgent to think of solutions that break the narrow two-state/one-state dichotomy and to discuss the political, legal, and historical aspects that confront (con-)federative thinking today.

Rula Hardal was born in 1974 in Peqi’in; Omri Boehm was born in 1979 in Gilon. Both have Israeli and German citizenship. Hardal conducts research at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and has been co-director of the Israeli-Palestinian organization “A Land for All – Two States, One Homeland” since 2023. She spent ten years in Germany, where she received her doctorate from the University of Hanover. Omri Boehm is Professor of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research in New York. He is the author of Haifa Republic and Radical Universalism, among other books.

Presented in English

Featuring a musical performance by Mohammed Al Sheikh, student of the Barenboim-Said Akademie