Friday, June 21, 1:30 PM EDT - Online (and in person London - sold out)

Palestine and the Quest for Justice

Join us for a panel discussion looking at justice in Islam through the lens of the Palestine issue.

By Islamic Human Rights Commission - Home - IHRC

In the light of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, is there a duty on Muslims to be politically active or is quietism the correct religious response?

These and other questions will be tackled by an expert panel headlined by Dr. Jonathan A.C. Brown, one of the west’s foremost academics in the field of hadith literature, who is currently writing a new book on the concept of justice in Islam.

He will be joined by Professor Ilan Pappé, a leading anti-Zionist Jewish historian and author of the seminal The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, which sets out how Palestinians were systematically removed from their homes to make way for an exclusivist Jewish state.

Earlier this year, addressing an anti-genocide meeting held by IHRC, Prof. Pappé said he feared that the oppression of Palestinians has moved to a new level both in terms “of the discourse employed by Israel, and the intensity and the purpose of the eliminatory policies. There hasn’t been such a period in history, this is a new phase of the brutality against the Palestinians,” that surpasses even the Nakba.

The conference will also hear from Laila al-Arian, a Palestinian-American journalist. Laila will speak about the western media coverage of Palestine/Gaza and the situation for journalists in Gaza.

Visit the IHRC website here. For enquiries, please email events@ihrc.org.

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