It’s been just over a month since the new Israeli government, led by Benjamin Netanyahu and a collection of ultra-nationalist coalition partners, was sworn in. Over this short time period, the world has been watching as the government begins advancing its hardline agenda that includes weakening the judiciary and the media, intensifying the brutal oppression…

In the second episode in FMEP and Al Shabaka’s four-part series, Learning and Unlearning Palestine, this webinar examined various limiting paradigms that, in spite of their liberal facade, have sought to contain the Palestinian experience and limit critique on the Israeli settler colonial project. This will include a critique of the international law and apartheid frameworks.

In this webinar, Nour Joudah and Dina Matar join moderator Maha Nassar to examine both the history and current reality of the erasure of the Palestinian narrative and delegitimization of Palestinian voices in mainstream spaces.

What does Palestinian identity mean in the face of the global diaspora and 75 years of statelessness? This town hall, featuring Palestinian cultural figures and supporters of the Palestinian cause, explores the current conversation about the future of a collective Palestinian identity, illustrated by the lived realities of our guests. Dena Takruri, a Palestinian American…

In December 2022 the Health and Human Rights Journal published a special section on the Palestinian right to health aiming to explore the conceptual and material connections between settler colonialism, structural racism, and human rights approaches to Palestinian health. On Wednesday, December 14, 2022 the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights at the FXB…

Bawalsa asks: What does this mean for Palestinians’ collective consciousness, and the way we comprehend the history of our dispossession and exile, whether a century ago, in 1948, 1967, or today? Is the right of return still worth fighting for?

On November 1, while the US was preparing for the midterm elections, Israeli citizens elected the most overtly racist parliament in the country’s history. Now, as politicians quibble over ministerial posts, declare war on human rights defenders and further entrench Jewish supremacy across Israel-Palestine, those on the frontlines of the struggle for a just future…

Mouin Rabbani and Palestinian digital rights advocate Marwa Fatafta Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter. This episode of Connections will examine the impact of Musk’s ownership, and more general issues relating to concentration of powers in social media. Connections offers timely and informative interviews on current events and broader policy questions, as well as themes relevant…

The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies hosted Asmaa AbuMezied, Yousef Aljamal, and Jehad Abusalim for a conversation moderated by Helga Tawil-Souri about the new anthology Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire. In his opening remarks, Jehad, the editor of the collection, said the book project seeks to “lessen the distance” from Gaza…

Political trust is generally defined as citizens’ confidence in political institutions. But what do we do when political institutions are absent, co-opted or hollowed out? How can we build greater trust across society in the face of the divisive projects of settler colonialism and apartheid, and in light of internal divisions increasingly exposed in an…