You are browsing the official site of One Democratic State in historic Palestine, ODS.
This site provides you with the opportunity to read the available literature on the vision of ODS and the history and development of Zionism and settler colonial apartheid Israel. Additionally, this site is functioning as a participatory platform open to all groups, organizations and individuals who identify with this vision of tomorrow’s Palestine.
This approach is motivated by the lack of collaboration between all the components of the ODS movement and the disappearance and dispersion that characterizes it.
It is an adequate response to this situation of fragmentation, promoting unity based on the recognition of secondary differences as long as the central objectives are shared and as long as the agreement on the Palestinian national constants is unanimously respected.
Thus, this participatory platform aims to promote the pooling of resources, the generation of the contents of a shared political theory and a common strategy of struggle to achieve the goals of the liberation of historic Palestine, the return of its refugees and the establishment of its Democratic State for all its inhabitants without distinction of ethnicity, religion, culture, sex, or gender.
This platform is a space through which a flow of accessible information passes, proposals, discussions between those who militate in this direction.
It presents a place of fluid and continuous exchange, allowing a better organization of common activities inspired by the ODS proposal.
With this website-platform:
We try to give all the participants a visibility, a clearer exposition of the specificity of their own theses in order to dynamize the internal discussion within the ODS movement, a necessary discussion for a future unification of all the groups claiming to be ODS.
We centralize all the data concerning the ODS which are currently dispersed and where each group jealously guards its contacts, its resources and carries out its projects without consultation or sharing with the others.
We encourage all participants to initiate joint work sessions to create a supra-list of email contacts for ODS friends, identifying their levels of commitment and availability, their geographic locations, and the most appropriate modalities for energizing exchanges and interactions among them.
We create a shared storage center that will allow files to be saved on the web and accessed with any device connected to the Internet.
Technically, our platform will integrate several functionalities. It can be a complementary device (partnership elaboration of mind mapping trees, thus elaborating graphic maps representing ideas, tasks, concepts about the ODS proposal), audio and/or video conferences, …), a tool or index listing the tasks to do and done, a collective archive system and personal pages, a calendar, a voting or rating system on articles. Or blogs, a directory of ODS supporters’ profiles or tools like forums or discussion pages, a collaborative virtual wall on Facebook, a system for sharing resources and files, an Instagram account, Twitter, a messaging service like a Whatsapp account, Telegram. In any case, this type of activity adds the dimensions of innovation, co-creation and co-production to collaborative work.
Politically, our website-platform is a project that aims at centering the different ODS groups on common political and ethical values such as plurality, dialogue, citizenship, the rule of law, the sharing of political slogans in connection with the Palestinian national constants and the centrality of the notion of Law (human rights, women’s rights, minorities’ rights ).