The discourse on Palestine has been shifting in different directions since the turn of the 20th century, marked by decades of struggle and labour by Palestinians and their allies. And as Palestinians came together last June under the banner of the Unity Intifada, forming a collective front against Israel's ongoing colonisation, we witnessed in real…

Public Seminar Series, Trinity term 2022: 'Resistance, Justice, Liberation: Critical Approaches to Knowledge Production on War, Violence and Colonization' Series convenor: Dr Dilar Dirik (Joyce Pearce Junior Research Fellow) About the Seminar In this seminar, we draw on the findings from our report From Converging Roads to Narrowing Grounds: The Struggle for Peace by LGBTI+…

Nearly a year after the Unity Intifada, the international community is once again bearing witness to the intensification of Israel’s military assault on Palestinians across historic Palestine. This systematic pattern of violence is a symptom of Israel’s settler colonial and apartheid regime. Yet, each wave of home demolitions, shootings of Palestinians, and restrictions on their…

Respected voices have independently determined that conditions imposed on Palestinians meet the criteria for apartheid, including most recently, Michael Lynk in his report to the UN Human Rights Council. Lynk has just concluded his UN Special Rapporteurship on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, and his findings further square…

On Monday, May 23, Yara Hawari and Itxaso Domínguez de Olazábal will be discussing the fragmentation of Palestinian society, its resistance and the role played by the international community, along with other issues, in Madrid. The month of May marks a significant point in the history of the Middle East. Seventy-four years ago, on May…

This is a recording of the roundtable 'Teaching Palestine in the Present' organised by the BRISMES Outreach and Pedagogy Subcommittee. Timings 0:10 Introduction to event by Teodora Todorova (Teaching Fellow in Sociology, University of Warwick / Chair, BRISMES Committee on Outreach and Pedagogy) 3:30 Nicola Pratt (Professor, International Politics of the Middle East, University of…

Palestinian resistance continues across our homeland today. In Jerusalem, Zionist state forces and settlers are encroaching onto the Al-Aqsa Mosque grounds and Damascus Gate, two of the last civic spaces in the city for Palestinians. Daily over the course of Ramadan, Palestinians have made it clear that they will defend their sacred spaces and city…

In this episode of the Occupied Thoughts podcast, FMEP’s Lara Friedman speaks with Amnesty International’s Saleh Hijazi about the root causes of the violence currently in the headlines — i.e., Israel’s policy of apartheid, and the structural violence they impose against Palestinians. and why Amnesty International is calling for an end to the “cycle of…

According to the late Pakistani writer and revolutionary activist Eqbal Ahmad, the Palestinian struggle for self-determination stirs the emotions of the entire world, particularly the nations and societies of the formerly colonized world. In this episode we explore the Palestinian struggle for liberation from the perspective of solidarity movements. Our guests include: Mouin Rabbani, an…

Featuring Lana Tatour (University of New South Wales, Australia) Dr. Yara Hawari (Al-Shabaka), and Tareq Baconi (Al-Shabaka). In this session, the speakers explored how years of fragmentation of the Palestinian people are today being challenged/overcome, both in terms of connections across the Green Line and grassroots engagement and connections around the world.