Upcoming Event:
Britain and the Ongoing Nakba on Palestine
Co-sponsored by the Centre for Palestine Studies (SOAS) International State Crime Initiative, Queen Mary University of London
🗓️ Wednesday 15th May
⏰ 5:00pm
🖥️ ONLINE
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.
The ICJ Ruling: Britain, Palestine and the International Rule of Law
Greenlighting Genocide: Britain and the War on Palestine
Leading international law scholars, Dr Nimer Sultany, Dr Thomas MacManus and Dr Michelle Staggs Kelsall discuss the ICJ’s landmark interim decision on Israel and its war on Gaza, considering what it means for the prospects of bringing the genocide to an end, and the implications for British policy towards Palestine.
This was the first event of the British Palestinian Committee’s new policy roundtable series on Green-lighting Genocide: Britain and the War on Palestine.
The first event was titled “The ICJ Ruling: Britain, Palestine and the International Rule of Law” and was co-sponsored by SOAS Centre for Palestine Studies and International State Crime Initiative.
If you missed the first event of our new policy roundtable series ‘Green-lighting Genocide: Britain and the War on Palestine’, you can now watch the recording on YouTube where leading international law scholars discuss the ICJ’s landmark interim decision on Israel and its war on Gaza.