Wednesday, May 15, 12:00 PM EDT - Online
Britain and the Ongoing Nakba in Palestine
Marking Nakba Day with a panel discussion on Britain’s historic and contemporary role in the ongoing dispossession of the Palestinian people
British Palestinian Committee Policy Roundtable Series - Greenlighting Genocide: Britain and the War on Palestine
The series of panel discussions aims to dissect and scrutinise the different dimensions of Britain's role in supporting what leading experts have described as Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. By convening experts, scholars, and policymakers, this panel series seeks to critically examine and discuss Britain's political, economic, and military complicity in the sustained emergency in Palestine; while advancing policy approaches that support the protection of the Palestinian people and the realisation of their inalienable rights.
Britain and Ongoing Nakba in Palestine
Co-sponsored by the Centre for Palestine Studies (SOAS) International State Crime Initiative, Queen Mary University of London
As Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinian people continues, we mark Nakba Day with a panel discussion on Britain’s historic and contemporary role in the ongoing dispossession of the Palestinian people. As the colonial power, Britain laid the foundations of settler-colonialism in Palestine and ultimately presided over the mass expulsion of Palestinians in 1947-1948. Since then, and contrary to the mythologies of the policymaking establishment, Britain has played an active role in resisting efforts to achieve justice and the restoration of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people. Leading scholars of Palestinian history and politics examine this hidden history, exploring the origins of the present-day genocide in Gaza in Britain's colonial past, and drawing out the lessons for British policymakers today.
Our Speakers: Professor Avi Shlaim, Emeritus Fellow of St Antony’s College, University of Oxford - Avi Shlaim is an historian and scholar of the international relations of the modern Middle East. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. His most recently published book is Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew (2023).
Professor Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Associate Professor of History and Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in Arab Studies, Rice University - Abdel Razzaq Takriti is a historian of anticolonialism, revolutions, intellectual and political currents, and state formation in the modern Arab world. He is the author of Monsoon Revolution: Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman, 1965-1976 (Oxford University Press, 2013; paperback edition, 2016).
Dr Chandni Desai, Assistant Professor in the Critical Studies of Equity and Solidarity, University of Toronto - Chandni Desai’s research focuses on cultures of resistance and revolution, third world internationalism and solidarity. She is currently working on her first book Revolutionary Circuits of Liberation: The Radical Tradition of Palestinian Resistance Culture and Internationalism, a study of Palestinian resistance culture.
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