Events

Senior Palestine Policy Fellow, Yara Hawari, joins this important policy roundtable convened by the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights about what it means for Palestinians to claim their right to narrate, to tell their stories, and to speak back with clear demands for an end to US complicity in Palestinian oppression.

After more than 70 years since the founding of the state of Israel and dispersal and dispossession of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, more than 50 years of occupation and de facto annexation, and more than 25 years since the Oslo Accords, there is a critical need for thinking that moves beyond failed paradigms and challenges status quo assumptions.

Al-Shabaka analysts Yara Hawari and Diana Buttu join the Free Palestine Melbourne forum to discuss Israeli Annexation:

Senior Policy Fellow Yara Hawari joins the University of Sussex's Middle East and North Africa Centre (MENACS) to discuss the pressing need to de-exceptionalize and re-internationalize the Palestinian struggle:

The Palestinian politcal leadership’s obsession with the idea of statehood as a means to realize self-determination and freedom has proved to be detrimental to the struggle of decolonizing Palestine.

With three inconclusive elections and a political stalemate eventually leading to the formation of a unity government, all under the spectre of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption charges, this event will analyse Israel's unprecedented political crisis. Speakers will discuss what to make of the deal between Netanyahu and Benny Gantz of the Blue and White…

Al-Shabaka analysts Randa Wahbe and Yara Hawari argue that Palestine is not an exceptional case — but an integral part of the international struggle for a just world. The Forum will explore how colonialism, patriarchy and capitalism intertwine to oppress the Palestinian population and communities around the world. The Israeli regime, therefore, must be situated in this global context — calling on all parts of the Progressive International to join the fight.

Senior Policy Fellow Yara Hawari joined an online Nakba Day rally organized by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the BDS Movement, Jewish Voice for Peace and the South African BDS Coalition. The complete line-up included speakers: Omar Barghouti, Diana Buttu, Ghada Karmi, Janna Jihad, Ken Loach, Chief Mandla Mandela; and performers: Adnan Joubran, DAM, Roger Waters, Remi Kanazi, Allan Kolski.…

Israel has been de facto annexing land in the West Bank since the inception of its military occupation of Palestinian territories following the 1967 war. Now, under the new Netanyahu-Gantz government and in close coordination with the Trump Administration, the Israeli government is poised to formalize and massively expand the extent of that annexation. What…

To mark Nakba Day 2020, on Wednesday 13h May the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign is honoured to host an online public meeting with Palestinian legal expert and political analyst Diana Buttu. About the talk Ms. Buttu will discuss Israel’s latest plan to illegally annex large areas of the West Bank in the context on the ‘Ongoing…