Session 1: Israeli Apartheid – the International Legal Framework Rania Muhareb: Apartheid and Settler Colonialism: Mobilising against the Root Causes of Palestinian Oppression Session 2: Apartheid in practice: ethnic cleansing, population transfer and segregation. Chair: Mona Sabella, Sadaka Dr. Yara Hawari: The manifestations of apartheid from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.   Session…

In the last month, Israel designated six prominent Palestinian civil society institutions as ‘terrorist organisations’. The list includes Al-Haq, Addameer, Defence for Children International, the Bisan Center for Research and Development, the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees and the Union of Agricultural Work Committees. These organisations play a critical role in highlighting the impact of…

This is the full record of the second session of “Palestine and International Law: Effectiveness and Prospects” conference, which was organised by Law for Palestine, in partnership with Birzeit University and the Independent Commission for Human Rights, on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Monday, November 29, 2021. ** Speakers in this…

On 25th October 2021, the Governance Programme at the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations held its second event for the 2021/2022 Dialogue Series. Four scholars Yara Hawari, Ather Zia, Toufic Haddad and Mohamad Junaid, discussed surveillance techniques used in Kashmir and Palestine as a way to draw together the shared—as…

"Recently there has been an amazing solidarity from a lot of different movements around the world. The most important role for them to play is to help create the spaces in which Palestinian politics can flourish and spaces for discussions and unity and leadership can flourish. That requires holding Israel accountable for its continuous violations!"…

Mark Seddon was live with Dr Yara Hawari confronting the media bias Palestinians still face around the world today. They explored the distortions, deceptions and downright mistruths often seen in mainstream reporting on Palestine, as well as the challenges Palestinians so often have to endure when they agree to give mainstream media interviews, when they're…

A panel discussion from October 17, 2021 with Inès Abdel Razek and Hagai El-Ad in conversation about the landmark report by Israel’s leading human rights organization, B’Tselem: A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is Apartheid. This webinar was organized by the Committee for a Just Peace in…

There is a perceptible shift in how international media has been covering news about Palestine-Israel. While mainstream mass media continues to largely follow the framing and terminology that have been firmly established for decades, a new tone that is sympathetic toward the plight of Palestinians has been emerging. This is even more noticeable in online…

For the second episode of the Internationalist’s new season, Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla speaks to Palestinian activist, academic and Progressive International Council member Yara Hawari about the illegal occupation of Palestine,  the “Save Sheikh Jarrah” movement and whether this summer’s protests are different to resistance efforts that came before. Our second season will consist of 10 episodes,…

The Promise Institute for Human Rights and Institute for Technology, Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law present a series on Global Digital Rights Challenges. About the series: Around the world, repressive governments are seeking new and innovative ways to port censorship to the online space, while private sector tech companies increasingly find themselves…