Layla Kattermann is the Monitor Team Manager at the European Legal Support Center (ELSC). Layla studied International Studies at Leiden University and specialized in the region of the Middle East, where she focused on the politics of law, the media discourse on Palestine and Israeli disinformation. She is also a co-founder of the Student Coalition for Palestine in the Netherlands.
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Israel’s 2023 genocide of Palestinians in Gaza has horrified many around the world and drawn widespread public outcry, with unprecedented levels of solidarity organizing taking place. But as this unparalleled camaraderie has emerged, so too has extraordinary repression at every level. Al-Shabaka spoke with Layla Kattermann of the European Legal Support Center (ELSC) and Diala Shamas of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) for further insight on this suppression of mobilization and methods to resist such efforts to stifle Palestine solidarity.
Layla Kattermann (European Legal Support Center) and Diala Shamas (Center for Constitutional Rights) join host Yara Hawari to discuss the crackdown on pro-Palestine solidarity across the US and Europe and ways their organizations are working to resist state repression against activists.
