September 4 & 5, 4AM - 10AM EDT (10AM - 4PM UK) - Livestreams
The Gaza Tribunal
by Project for Peace & Justice by Jeremy Corbyn
This week, the International Association of Genocide Scholars approved an historic resolution: Israel has officially met the legal criteria for the crime of genocide in Gaza.
This genocide, however, is not just Israel’s crime.
Since October 2023, Britain has conducted more than 600 surveillance flights over Gaza. Between September 2024 and February 2025 alone, the UK government approved the export of 8,630 separate munitions to Israel.
Today, ministers are on the verge of awarding a £2bn contract to Elbit Systems that would make the central cog in Israel’s war machine a “strategic partner” of the Ministry of Defence. Meanwhile, Israeli army officers have been allowed to study in central London throughout the genocide.
As it has for over a century, the British state continues to aid and abet Israel’s settler-colonial occupation of Palestine.
On 4 July, PI Council member and Independent MP Jeremy Corbyn introduced a bill into the UK Parliament calling on the government to establish an independent inquiry into British involvement in Israeli military operations in Gaza.
This proposal was rejected, and an inquiry was refused.
But the British public — like all those residing in countries that have supplied Israel with economic, diplomatic, or military support — has a right to know the full scale of its government’s role in the 700-day assault on Gaza.
That is why, on Thursday and Friday this week, Peace & Justice Project will convene the first Gaza Tribunal: to uncover the truth in search of justice for the Palestinian people.
WATCH THE GAZA TRIBUNAL 10 AM TO 4 PM ON THURSDAY
WATCH THE GAZA TRIBUNAL 10 AM TO 4 PM ON FRIDAY
Across two days in Church House — the site of the Progressive International’s Belmarsh Tribunal to secure the freedom of Julian Assange — we will hear from a range of expert witnesses, including Palestinians on the ground in Gaza, doctors who have worked in the besieged enclave, and journalists who have covered the genocide. These voices will be joined by legal experts and UN officials with an intimate knowledge of the situation.
The Gaza Tribunal stands in a proud tradition of popular efforts to uphold international law in the face of imperial aggression.
In 1966, while Washington waged chemical warfare across Vietnam, Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre established the International War Crimes Tribunal. Attended by representatives from 18 countries, including Simone de Beauvoir, James Baldwin and Isaac Deutscher, participants found that the United States had committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in Vietnam.
Four decades later, The World Tribunal (WTI) on Iraq sought to emulate Russell’s initiative. During the bombing of Baghdad, a network of anti-war activists, including Arundhati Roy, Eve Ensler and Richard Falk, combined to dismantle the web of lies used to justify the illegal invasion.
In the Gaza genocide, Jeremy Corbyn sees parallels with Operation Shock and Awe. “Just like Iraq, the government is doing everything it can to protect itself from scrutiny,” he said. “Just like Iraq, it will not succeed in its attempts to suffocate the truth.”
On Thursday and Friday, join us to uncover the full and shocking extent of Britain's role in the ongoing campaign to surveil, attack, and evict the Palestinian people from their ancestral lands.
In solidarity,
The Progressive International Secretariat