ABSTRACT
In 1994 and 1996 the first two conferences took place in Israel, in Nazareth—hence the name—and the third conference was held in 2000 in Bad Segeberg, Germany. However, being involved with the work of the conference—Germans, Jews, Israelis, Palestinians and Others —also carries such destructive loadings that one might well wish to be elsewhere. The primary task of the first three conferences was "to provide opportunities for participants to explore how feelings and fantasies about 'German-ness' and 'Israeli-ness/Jewish-ness' influence relations within and between the two groups in the conference". In the closing plenary of the fourth conference an Israeli staff member noted, in the dying moments, that there had been no comment on the fact that one of his colleagues has a Muslim name. In addition to the conferences themselves, there are "in-between activities among members and staff, the staff is quite stable and the same, etc.".
