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June 26, 16:00–20:00
Kühlhaus Berlin
Luckenwalder Str. 3
10963 Berlin

We warmly invite you to a two-part evening dedicated to Israel/ Palestine, questions of historical responsibility, and the search for paths toward a more just future.

We are particularly honoured to welcome as keynote speaker the internationally renowned historian, Holocaust and genocide scholar Prof. Omer Bartov (Brown University, USA), who will present his widely discussed new book Israel: What Went Wrong?

The evening will begin with a screening of the Israeli–Palestinian–Swiss documentary Until We Talk (2025), which follows the extraordinary journey of Palestinian Bassam Aramin and Israeli Rami Elhanan, who each lost a daughter to the conflict and transformed their personal grief into a powerful call to listen, bear witness, and confront the human cost of violence.

The film’s protagonists are long-standing members of the Israeli–Palestinian Parents Circle – Families Forum (PCFF), a network of more than 700 bereaved families who have lost loved ones in the conflict and are working for dialogue, mutual recognition, and a peaceful future. We will be joined by members of the German Friends of the Parents Circle (PCFD), who support the organization’s work in Germany.
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16:00 – Film Screening

Screening of the Israeli–Palestinian–Swiss documentary Until We Talk (2025) by Florian Mebes, a production by McQueen Films and VideoKlub (Robin Scheller), in collaboration with Yoav Parish, in the presence of members of Parents Circle Friends Deutschland e.V.

18:00 – Keynote and Discussion

Israeli-Jewish historian and Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov presents his new book, arguing how Zionism evolved from a movement of Jewish liberation into a state ideology of exclusive ethno-nationalism, discrimination, and violent domination of Palestinians – with Israel now standing accused of war crimes and genocide.