In light of recent statements by former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, accusing the current Israeli leadership of pursuing policies of “occupation, annexation, and ethnic cleansing” and revealing intentions to expel Palestinians from northern Gaza to reestablish Jewish settlements there, the true objectives of Israel’s war on Gaza have come into sharper focus. This war, rooted in aims of annexation, settlement expansion, and genocide, is manifested through deliberate killing and the systematic destruction of essential life infrastructure in the Gaza Strip.
The Institute for Palestine Studies invites you to attend a seminar titled: “Gaza 1948–2024: From Ongoing Nakba to Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing.”
The seminar will analyze Israel’s current policies in Gaza within a comprehensive historical and legal framework, beginning with the establishment of the Gaza Strip after the Nakba of 1948. It will examine successive Israeli policies treating Gaza as a political, demographic, and geographic issue. Additionally, the seminar will address the legal and ethical contexts for understanding the evolution of ethnic cleansing and genocide policies, with a special focus on Palestine.
The seminar will be held on Thursday, from 3:00 PM to 5:30 PM Jerusalem time (8:00 AM to 10:30 AM EST), via Zoom, and will be broadcast on various social media platforms of the Palestinian Studies Institute: X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, YouTube and IPS website.
Speakers and Topics:
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Jehad Abusalim: Gaza: From Ongoing Nakba to Genocide and Annihilation
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Dr. Suhad Bishara: Statements by Israeli Politicians and Their Impact on Legal Proceedings in International Arenas
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Prof. Mahmoud Yazbak: Gaza: From Siege to Retaliation and Ethnic Cleansing … and the Prospects
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Dr. Maher Sharif: The Intellectual Background of Zionist Ethnic Cleansing Projects
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Dr. Muhammad Ali Khalidi: The False Moral Equivalence
Jehad Abusalim: Ph.D. candidate in History at New York University and Executive Director of the Institute for Palestine Studies in the United States.
Dr. Suhad Bishara serves as Adalah's Legal Director and has worked with Adalah since 2001. Suhad specializes in land and planning rights. She has more than 23 years of experience litigating cases before the Israeli Supreme Court and served as lead lawyer in major human rights cases regarding Palestinian citizens of Israel and international humanitarian law cases concerning Palestinians in the 1967 Occupied Territory before the Israeli Supreme Court. She received an LL.B. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an LL.M. in Public Service Law from New York University's School of Law (USA), and a PhD at the King’s College School of Law in London. She was also Palestine & Law Fellow at Columbia University Law School.
Prof. Mahmoud Yazbak: A resident of Nazareth, Mahmoud is a lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Haifa and Chair of the Board of Adalah. He specializes in Palestinian history, particularly social history, and has authored multiple books and articles in several languages.
Dr. Maher Charif: A Palestinian historian with a doctorate from the Sorbonne-Paris I University. He is a researcher at the Instiute for Palestine Studies and a part-time professor at Saint Joseph University in Beirut. His research focuses on modern and contemporary Palestinian history, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and modern Arab thought.
Dr. Muhammad Ali Khalidi: Presidential Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His research addresses philosophical aspects of the Palestinian issue, including refugee rights, self-determination, and the ethics of war. He is also an expert in the philosophy of science and language.
Dr. Himmat Zoubi (Moderator): A Palestinian academic and researcher. She holds a PhD in sociology, with her studies focusing on urban social sciences. Her research interests revolve around cities and urbanization in the context of colonialism, cultural cities, and culture and art as spaces and practices for oppositional strategies. She is a postdoctoral research fellow in the “Europe in the Middle East - The Middle East in Europe” (EUME) program at the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin. She currently serves as the Director of Research Projects at Mada al-Carmel – The Arab Center for Applied Social Research.
