A panel discussion on the historical and legal context of the Palestinian struggle for liberation against settler colonialism.
Panellists:
Associate Professor Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and an Associate Professor at Rutgers University, New Brunswick in the Department of Africana Studies and the Program in Criminal Justice. Her research interests include human rights law, humanitarian law, national security law, refugee law, social justice, and critical race theory. Noura is also a Co-Founding Editor of Jadaliyya, an electronic magazine on the Middle East that combines scholarly expertise and local knowledge. She is the author of “Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine” published in 2019.
Tareq Baconi is the president of the board of Al-Shabaka, a Palestinian Policy Network, launched in 2010, as the first and only independent, transnational Palestinian think tank. He is the former senior analyst for Israel/Palestine and Economics of Conflict at the International Crisis Group that is based in Ramallah. He is the author of “Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance” published in 2017.
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Tareq Baconi is a Palestinian writer, scholar, and activist. He previously served as Al-Shabaka’s US policy fellow and later as president of the board of directors. His work has appeared in The New York Times and The Baffler, among others. He also contributes essays to The New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. He is the author of What Now: On Palestine, Freedom, and Our Global Future (2026), Hamas Contained: A History of Palestinian Resistance (2018), which was shortlisted for the Palestine Book Award, and Fire in Every Direction: A Memoir (2025).
Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and Professor in the Department of Africana Studies and the Program in Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Her research focuses on human rights law, humanitarian law, refugee law, and critical race theory, with a particular focus on Palestine. She is the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019), a co-founding editor of Jadaliyya, and an editorial committee member for the Journal of Palestine Studies. She holds a JD from UC Berkeley and an LLM in National Security from Georgetown University Law Center.
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