Two years after the greatest escalation of violence in Palestine and Israel, in October 2023, a new phase of the genocide of the Palestinian people has begun, in what the UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese identified as a collective crime. The cease-fire of October 10, 2025, and the apparent de-escalation of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, seemed to be enough to promote a sense of normalcy, for most media outlets to turn their cameras away, and for world leaders or representatives of organisations such as the European Union to avoid acting to stop Israel’s genocidal acts, as ordered by the International Court of Justice in 2024. However, as US President Donald Trump and allies established a “Board of Peace” to impose a "transition", violence increases across the occupied Palestinian territories while Israel openly promotes settlement and annexation. Accountability, justice and self-determination are far removed from the horizon, and so are peace and liberation. This seminar aims to discuss this reality, but also our shared responsibility to prevent the consolidation of the settler-colonization of Palestine.
Speakers
Yara Hawari (Al-Shabaka - The Palestinian Policy Network) | The ‘Board of Peace’ and self-determination in Palestine
Tamam Abusalama (Communications Strategist, European Left Alliance) | The European Citizens’ Initiative for Justice for Palestine
Teresa Almeida Cravo (FEUC - CES) is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Economics and a Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra in Portugal. Her work focuses on peace and violence, international intervention, and the politics of global governance.
Moderator: Moara Assis Crivelente (Post-doctoral Researcher - CES)
Featured Speaker
Yara Hawari is Al-Shabaka’s co-director. She previously served as the Palestine policy fellow and senior analyst. Yara completed her PhD in Middle East Politics at the University of Exeter, where she taught various undergraduate courses and continues to be an honorary research fellow. In addition to her academic work, which focused on indigenous studies and oral history, she is a frequent political commentator writing for various media outlets including The Guardian, Foreign Policy, and Al Jazeera English.
