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27 May 2025 –\u00a0Opening Remarks, Richard Falk, Sarajevo Public Session of Gaza Tribunal, 26 May 2025.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Members of the Gaza Tribunal, Ladies and Gentlemen, Persons of Conscience Throughout the World, and Rector Ahmed Yildirim. It is my honor to welcome you to the opening day of the Sarajevo Public Session of the Gaza Tribunal. It is with great regret that I am not physically present in Sarajevo. I wish that I could be with you in person, but an unforeseen family accident disrupted my travel plans.<\/p>\n

The purpose of the Gaza Tribunal is to add credibility to the torment and outrage of people throughout the world and do are part to bringing the Gaza ordeal of death and devastation to an end. Among our goals is to motivate nonviolent action performed with a goal of exerting pressure on Israel to desist from genocide. We commit ourselves to this goal in the name of our common humanity.<\/p>\n

We are most grateful to the International University of Sarajevo, and particularly Rector Yildirim for hosting our presence on this historic campus. We are of course mindful of Sarajevo\u2019s and Bosnia\u2019s recent past and its symbolic relevance to the tragic fate that has befallen the Palestinian all of whom have are living as permanent refugees or as persecuted strangers in their own homeland. In the spirit of solemn acknowledgement, we should pay homage today 30 years after the willful massacre of 8,000 male Bosnians at Srebrenica for no reason other than their nationality and religion.<\/p>\n

In the present period already lasting more than 19 months the eyes and ears of the world have been exposed to daily atrocities victimizing the besieged crowded, impoverished, and tiny Gaza Strip. Earlier genocides, including the Holocaust, were mostly known in retrospect by way of survivor stories and reconstructed images of the horrors experienced by the victims. This was a macabre contrast to the devastation of Gaza reported by the hour in words and images. Day after day the unspeakable suffering of Palestine\u2019s remarkably resilient and resisting people disoriented persons of conscience by its transparent spectacles of evil. This impact was worsened by being brought to human awareness in real time.<\/p>\n

Shamelessly, Israel made little attempt to hide its genocidal intentions or disguise its genocidal tactics. Its leaders and pro-government activists openly declared their goals as killing and maiming Palestinians, whether by bombs or by way of terrifying refusals to allow Gazans to obtain desperately needed food and medical supplies. Its leaders on some occasions sought to justify their behavior be referencing Biblical stories of genocide. Presumably, this was done to provide a hallowed religious precedent for their current operations in Gaza of mass extermination. Israel\u2019s minimum goals were to induce large-scale departures from Occupied Palestine to places as distant as possible from their homeland that has been rendered virtually uninhabitable by repeated bombardment and artillery shelling. The genocidal cast of mind accompanying the military onslaught was manifest. Prominent Israeli citizens and government officials openly compared the mentality accompanying the killing Palestinians to that experienced while killing of cockroaches. Some high-profile Israelis even advocated dropping a nuclear bomb on the densely populated and totally vulnerable people of Gaza. Despite some pretensions to the contrary, the Israeli hostages held by Hamas did not restrain Israel\u2019s violence or move the government toward accepting a permanent ceasefire even after the fury of its campaign went on month after month without achieving its purported original objective of destroying Hamas.<\/p>\n

The pleas and warnings of the world\u2019s leading moral authority figures went unheeded by Israel or its supporting governments. These including dedicated pleas from Pope Francis and Pope Leo XIV as well as from the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, and several Nobel Peace Prize winners. These varied revered voices were defiantly scorned by Israel\u2019s government and citizenry, and the massacres in Gaza continued unabated, and even spread to the West Bank.<\/p>\n

The UN despite making a variety of responses has not been able to stop the killing, let alone protect the victimized people of Gaza, even its children, women, disabled, and elderly comprising an estimated 70% of Palestinian casualties. The UN has been blocked from taking decisive action by the diplomatic complicity of the North American and European liberal democracies. It has become obvious to all that the UN lacks the independent political will, authority, and capability to override the kind of geopolitical and material impunity given to Israel by the US. As the Israeli rogue behavior persisted the peoples of the world, including in the countries whose governments were openly aligned with Israel, mounted increasingly militant protests. However, the governments that could have made a difference watched the carnage of bodies and rubble pile up without making moves to stop it, and this sadly includes the governments of Israel\u2019s Arab neighbors whose peoples ardently supported the Palestinian liberation struggle while their regimes remained passive. In many instances even maintained positive economic and political links with Israel belying their pretenses of neutrality or verbal opposition.<\/p>\n

It is against this background that Gaza Tribunal was established some months ago, launched in London in November of 2024. Since then working with dedication to prepare as well as possible for this public session in Sarajevo. The undertaking can be grasped from the appended ambitious Program of the Tribunal that will unfold over the next four days.<\/p>\n

The GT draws inspiration from prior peoples tribunals, most especially from the Russell Tribunal addressing the unlawfulness of US intervention in the Vietnam War, from the Iraq War Tribunal that was prompted by the 2003 regime-changing aggression that brought chaos and misery to the Iraqi people, and from the tireless work of the Permanent Peoples Tribunal of Rome that sponsored and organized comparable civil society inquiries into the leading injustices in the world. This legacy of earlier peoples tribunals had a common core rationale for coming into existence. This rationale also defines the mission of the Gaza Tribunal and can be explained concisely: It is the failure of organized international society to respond to severe injustices by enforcing international law and holding perpetrators and accomplices accountable. In short, these tribunals arise when the governments of leading states and inter-governmental institutions fail or neglect to address severe injustices, especially bearing on war and peace. In essence, people only act in response to international issues when the established order exhibits its moral and legal depravity from the perspective of justice.<\/p>\n

It needs to be appreciated that the funding and organization of a people\u2019s tribunal is a daunting challenge for ordinary citizen. Its inherent posture of radical opposition to governmental policy will be rejected harshly by establishment elites, including the corporate media, and often give rise to punitive reactions. That is to say, the reality of the Gaza Tribunal was a project not lightly undertaken by its principal organizers or by participating activists.<\/p>\n

Gaza is the leading example, as well as a metaphor for the dying of settler colonialism, and is thus perceived as a dagger struck to the heart of anti-colonial national liberation. It prompted a few countries of the Global South to have recourse to the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court, hoping to find formal and authoritative judicial support for their well-documented allegations of genocide and crimes against humanity. Even this progressive reliance on a \u2018law and order approach\u2019 turned out to be of little practical benefit in stopping the genocide. The near unanimous rulings and decisions of the ICJ proved to be as unenforceable as were the prior General Assembly ceasefire resolutions. And thus the genocide continue, perpetrators retain de facto impunity, and the complicit governments have the audacity to seek control over day after negotiations.<\/p>\n

Yet for opponents of Israel\u2019s policies even these disappointing realities of judicial futility are helpful in this context because authoritative pronouncements of relevant law add symbolic force to the claim that Israel and its supporters have been driven from the high moral and legal ground despite their commanding influence over public discourse by virtue of hasbara manipulations and sympathetic major Western media outlets. Further, since 1945 the side in political conflicts that wins the main legality battles also wins the legitimacy war that informally<\/strong> adjudicates right and wrong. These symbolic victories have turned out to be historically relevant to shaping political outcomes. From the Vietnam War forward the side with military superiority has rarely controlled political outcomes in anti-colonial warfare, however much death and devastation it inflicts in trying for victory. Whether Palestinian resilience, extraordinary as it is, \u00a0has the capability to withstand the relentless pressure of Israeli genocide insulated from the enforcement of legal obligations by geopolitical protection, and prepared for by decades of apartheid governance and ethnic cleansing that encountered hardly any pushback from the UN aside from contributions to Palestinian victories in the battlefields of the legitimacy war.<\/p>\n

In the coming days we will try to vindicate the establishment of the Gaza Tribunal by striving to add our efforts to rising global opposition to the brutal crimes of a continuing genocide. Can we do otherwise? Only two days ago Israel\u2019s IDF reportedly knowingly targeted the home of two doctors married to one another. The IDF allegedly acted on the basis of surveillance technology that conveyed the knowledge that the house was full of children. While the mother, Alaa de-Najjar, a pediatrician was on duty at the nearby Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, her home was bombed and nine of her ten children were killed by the fire caused by the explosion. The nine bodies of her children were brought to her at the hospital, while her husband critically wounded by the bomb and the singly surviving child, aptly named Adam, were struggling to stay alive. Can any of us rest while such barbarous behavior goes on and on?<\/p>\n

Desperate for an end to this genocide I hope many will join me in calling for \u2018the gravitas of awakened people\u2019 to do what governments have failed to do, namely, to do all in our power to bring this Palestinian ordeal to an end<\/p>\n

We are gathered here in Sarajevo to respond as effectively as we can to what is being increasingly identified as \u2018the moral challenge\u2019 of our time. The Gaza ordeal has cast its dark shadow across the entire planet. Our endeavor is to make the experience of the Gaza Tribunal a glimmer of light, an expression of hope against hope.<\/p>\n

GAZA TRIBUNAL PROJECT, 26-29 May 2025, Sarajevo, Bosnia:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\nCHAMBER 1<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\nINTERNATIONAL LAW<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMONDAY, MAY 26<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:00-9:30<\/strong><\/td>\nWelcome<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nRector of International University of Sarajevo<\/td>\nAhmet Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nPresident of the Islamic Cooperation Youth Forum<\/td>\nTaha Ayhan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nPresident of the Gaza Tribunal<\/td>\nRichard Falk<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:30-10:00<\/strong><\/td>\nChamber 1 co-Chairs introduce proceedings<\/strong><\/td>\nMichael Lynk
\nSusan Akram<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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10:00-11:45<\/strong><\/td>\nPanel 1: Nakba and Colonial Genocide<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nGenocide<\/td>\nNimer Sultany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nApartheid and Self-Determination<\/td>\nVictor Kattan (online)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nForced Population Transfer<\/td>\nTriestino Marinello (online)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWitness testimony: Al Haq Field Researcher<\/td>\nPre-recorded & translated from Arabic<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWitness testimony<\/td>\nAhmed Abu Artema<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\nWitness testimony<\/td>\nKhaled Alhatoun (read by\u00a0 )<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\nWitness testimony<\/td>\nAya Abusharakh (read by\u00a0 )<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\nWitness testimony<\/td>\nSherene Alsafi (read by )<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:45-12:15<\/strong><\/td>\nCoffee Break<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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12:15-14:00<\/strong><\/td>\nPanel 2: Patterns of Genocide<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nPolitical Prisoners<\/td>\nLisa Hajjar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nRight to food<\/td>\nFarah Al-Haddad<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nReproductive systems<\/td>\nHeidi Matthews<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWitness testimony (prisoner \u2013 Addameer)<\/td>\nDiala Ayash (pre-recorded, translated)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWitness testimony (prisoner \u2013 Addameer)<\/td>\nAhmed Khreish (pre-recorded, translated)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWitness testimony (prisoner \u2013 Addameer)<\/td>\nKhader Al\u2019ashi (pre-recorded, translated)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWitness testimony (prisoner \u2013 Addameer)<\/td>\nKhader Al\u2019ashi (pre-recorded, translated)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAPN witness: Right to Food<\/td>\nWritten testimony read by:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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14:00-15:00<\/strong><\/td>\nLunch<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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15:00-16:45<\/strong><\/td>\nPanel 3: Specific Acts<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nProtection of Civilians<\/td>\nMaryam Jamshidi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAttack on Health Infrastructure<\/td>\nHana \/ read by Wesam Ahmad<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWitness testimony: Gaza Soup Kitchen; UNRWA USA<\/td>\nHani Almadhoun<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWitness testimony: Volunteer physician in Gaza<\/td>\nDr. Thaer Ahmad<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWitness testimony: Volunteer physician in Gaza<\/td>\nDr. Mimi Syed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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16:45-17:15<\/strong><\/td>\nClosing by Co-Chairs<\/strong><\/td>\nMichael Lynk
\nSusan Akram<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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17:15-18:00<\/strong><\/td>\nClosing Remarks<\/strong><\/td>\nRaji Sourani<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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<\/td>\nCHAMBER 2<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\nINTERNATIONAL RELATIONS & WORLD ORDER<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\nTUESDAY, MAY 27<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:00-9:30<\/strong><\/td>\nChamber 2 co-Chairs introduce proceedings<\/strong><\/td>\nRichard Falk (online)
\nCraig Mokhiber (online)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:30-10:00<\/strong><\/td>\nPanel 1: Political Realism and Contemporary Geopolitics<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nPolitical Realism Revisited and the Law of Peoples<\/td>\nRichard Falk (online)
\nPaulina Chan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:00-11:15<\/strong><\/td>\nPanel 2: Political Economy of Genocide and Obliteration of Gaza<\/strong><\/td>\nModerator:
\nWesam Ahmad<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNakba, Liberation, and Decolonization Through a Political Economic Lens: from 1948 to the Gaza Genocide<\/td>\nLara Eborno<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nEnforcement and the Accountability Gap: The Crime of Starvation<\/td>\nHilal Elver (online)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nEcocidal Violence in Gaza: Is it Part of Genocide or a Separate International Crime?<\/td>\nDavid Whyte (online)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nPursuing Physically Disabling Combat Tactics<\/td>\nPenny Green<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:15-11:30<\/strong><\/td>\nCoffee break<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:30-12:15<\/strong><\/td>\nExpert Testimony<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMazin Qumsiyeh<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSami Al Arian<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNoura Erakat (pre-recorded) \u2013 Failures of the UN<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAsmer Safi \u2013 Criminalisation of student protests<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:15-14:00<\/strong><\/td>\nLunch<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14:00-15:15<\/strong><\/td>\nPanel 3: Deficiencies of the formal international normative order<\/strong><\/td>\nModerator: Lisa Hajjar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe International System in the Age of Genocide<\/td>\nCraig Mokhiber (online)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLooking Ahead to Enforcement<\/td>\nPhyllis Bennis (online)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nInternational Tribunals: The ICJ and ICC<\/td>\nMichelle Burgis-Kasthala (online)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:15\u201316:00<\/strong><\/td>\nPanel 4: GTP conception of an alternative jurisprudential legal paradigm<\/strong><\/td>\nModerator: Penny Green<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCivil Society Tribunals: Meeting the Challenge of Israeli Impunity for Gaza Genocide<\/td>\n\u00a0Michelle Burgis-Kasthala (online)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nPermanent Peoples Tribunal<\/td>\nGianni Tognoni<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16:00-17:15<\/strong><\/td>\nPanel 5:
\nActivism of civil society and social movements<\/strong><\/td>\n		Moderator: Wesam Ahmad<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSumud and Self-Determination: The Enduring Legacy Against Erasure<\/td>\nRamzy Baroud<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nJewish Voices for Peace and the Ceasefire Campaign<\/td>\nPhyllis Bennis (online)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLearning from South Africa\u2019s Anti-Apartheid Struggle<\/td>\nHaidar Eid (online)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17:15-17:30<\/strong><\/td>\nBreak<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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17:30-18:30<\/strong><\/td>\nDiscussion<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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<\/td>\nCHAMBER 3<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHISTORY, ETHICS & PHILOSOPHY<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWEDNESDAY, MAY 28<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:00-9:30<\/strong><\/td>\nChamber 3 co-Chairs introduce proceedings<\/strong><\/td>\nPenny Green Cemil Aydin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:30-10:30<\/strong><\/td>\nPanel 1: Understanding Genocide<\/strong><\/td>\nModerator: Lara Elborno<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nGenocide as State Crime : the importance of understanding it as a process<\/td>\nPenny Green<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nEthical Implications of the Genocide in Gaza<\/td>\nAyhan Citil<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHistory of Ethnic Cleansing\/Genocide<\/td>\nIllan Pappe (online)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:30-11:30<\/strong><\/td>\nPanel 2: Ideological Underpinnings \u2013 Exposing Dehumanization<\/strong><\/td>\nModerator: Cemil Aydin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nChallenging the Matrix of Control\/House Demolitions<\/td>\nJeff Halper<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAn Ontological Abortion of the
\nEnfleshed Genocidal State: The Ongoing Genocidal Nakba in Gaza<\/td>\n		Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian (read by Penny Green)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe Unmaking of the Palestinian Home<\/td>\nHenrietta Zeffert<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:30-11:45<\/strong><\/td>\nBreak<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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11:45-12:45<\/strong><\/td>\nPanel 3: Resisting Genocide<\/strong><\/td>\nModerator: Thomas MacManus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe GT Archive<\/td>\nAndy Simmons
\nMichelle Burgis -Kasthala<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nPalestinian Resistance<\/td>\nAbed Takriti<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nArchaeology and the Erasure of Palestine<\/td>\nAkram Lilja<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nExpert testimony: The BDS Campaign<\/td>\nOmar Bargouti (pre-recorded)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:45-14:00<\/strong><\/td>\nLunch<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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14:00-15:00<\/strong><\/td>\nPanel 4: Ideological Underpinnings \u2013 Civilization and Weaponizing the Holocaust and Anti-Semitism<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHolocaust Exceptionalism and Israel\u2019s Genocide<\/td>\nRaz Segal (online)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nEthnic Cleansing Through Civilisational Narratives<\/td>\nCemil Aydin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe Role of the Israeli Academy in Genocide Production<\/td>\nMaya Wind (pre-recorded)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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15:00-16:00<\/strong><\/td>\nMedia Roundtable<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nPeter Oborne, Jonathan Cook, Victoria Brittain,
\nEzgi Basaran, Kenize Mourad<\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16:00-16:15<\/strong><\/td>\nBreak<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16:15-17:00<\/strong><\/td>\nPanel 5: Cultures of Erasure<\/strong><\/td>\nModerator: Wesam Ahmad<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nPolitics of Palestine Exception<\/td>\nUssama Makdisi (online)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nZionist Culture and Genocide Denial<\/td>\nSaree Makdisi (online)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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17:00-17:30<\/strong><\/td>\nSummary of Chamber 3 Report<\/strong><\/td>\nPenny Green Cemil Aydan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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17:30-18:30<\/strong><\/td>\nDiscussion of the Sarajevo Declaration<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\nDAY 4<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\nTHURSDAY, MAY 29<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
09:00-10:30<\/strong><\/td>\nSrebrenica\/Gaza Roundtable<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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10:30-11:00<\/strong><\/td>\nCoffee Break<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:00 \u2013 12:00<\/strong><\/td>\nPresentation of the Sarajevo Declaration + Press Conference<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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12:00-12:30<\/strong><\/td>\nClosing Remarks<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\"\"<\/a>Prof. Richard Falk is a member of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Network<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University, Chair of Global Law, Faculty of Law, at Queen Mary University London, Research Associate the Orfalea Center of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Fellow of the Tellus Institute. He directed the project on Global Climate Change, Human Security, and Democracy at UCSB and formerly served as director the North American group in the World Order Models Project. Between 2008 and 2014, Falk served as UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Occupied Palestine. His book,\u00a0<\/em>(Re)Imagining Humane Global Governance\u00a0(2014), proposes a value-oriented assessment of world order and future trends. His most recent books are\u00a0<\/em>Power Shift\u00a0(2016);\u00a0<\/em>Revisiting the Vietnam War\u00a0(2017);\u00a0<\/em>On Nuclear Weapons: Denuclearization, Demilitarization and Disarmament\u00a0(2019); and\u00a0<\/em>On Public Imagination: A Political & Ethical Imperative, ed. with Victor Faessel & Michael Curtin (2019).\u00a0He\u00a0is the author or coauthor of other books, including\u00a0<\/em>Religion and Humane Global Governance\u00a0(2001),\u00a0<\/em>Explorations at the Edge of Time\u00a0(1993),\u00a0<\/em>Revolutionaries and Functionaries\u00a0(1988),\u00a0<\/em>The Promise of World Order\u00a0(1988),\u00a0<\/em>Indefensible Weapons (with Robert Jay Lifton, 1983),\u00a0<\/em>A Study of Future Worlds\u00a0(1975), and\u00a0<\/em>This Endangered Planet\u00a0(1972).\u00a0His memoir,\u00a0<\/em>Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim\u00a0was published in March 2021 and received an award from Global Policy Institute at Loyala Marymount University as \u2018the best book of 2021.<\/strong>\u2019 He has been nominated frequently for the Nobel Peace Prize since 2009.<\/em><\/p>\n

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