More than 25 speakers from around the nation are confirmed They include Stanford Professor Joel Beinen, U.C. Berkeley Professor Hatem Bazian and Phyllis Bennis, director of the Washington, D.C.-based Middle East Project at the Institute for Policy Studies.

U.C. Berkeley Hillel students plan "parallel programming" during the three-day event and have established a pledge drive to fund Arab-Israeli coexistence projects, support terrorism victims and push for minority and women's rights. As of press-time, the students had raised roughly $1,340. Interested donors should e-mail Weisbergat [email protected]

E-mails should mention "Israel fund-raising" in the subject line.

— Joe Eskenazi