The Canadian military is currently picking a contender for up to 5 billion CAD worth of armed drones. Join us to learn more from experts in the field and speak out against the government's attempt to purchase and deploy a fleet of armed drones. Panelists include Dr. Samer Abdelnour (academic and activist), Maya Garfinkel (World…

On the morning of August 18, 2022, the Israeli military raided the offices of 7 leading Palestinian Human Rights organizations and sealed their doorways. While such actions shock the conscience, they’re unfortunately unsurprising given Israel’s reputation of repressing freedom of expression and undermining the spirit of accountability and transparency these organizations represent.

Full video of the JHU-UPF Public Policy Center's #PolicyDialogues session, "Health Inequity and Medical Apartheid in Palestine", July 21, 2022. With interventions by Yara Asi and Osama Tanous.

Rencontre avec : Inès Abdel Razek, analyste franco-palestinienne, directrice du plaidoyer pour le Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy, une ONG palestinienne de mobilisation et diplomatie citoyenne, basée à Ramallah. Elle est membre active du laboratoire d’idées palestinien Al-Shabaka et membre du conseil d’administration de BuildPalestine. Thomas Vescovi, professeur d’histoire-géographie dans le secondaire et chercheur indépendant…

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…