Notice: Due to recent developments and current circumstances, and a desire to reach as wide an audience as possible, we are holding the Annual Conference entirely virtually, over Zoom.
The Jerusalem Fund and Palestine Center warmly invite you to our 2023 Annual Conference titled, “One Palestine: The Struggle Against Apartheid,” in honor of the resplendent unity displayed by the Palestinian people in the face of colonial fragmentation.
The conference will reflect on the past 75 years since the Nakba and 30 years since the Oslo Accords, and consider the current state of the struggle against Israeli colonialism within the context of recent developments. The discussions will include renowned experts, academics, and journalists who will provide contributions from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, including legal, political, and humanitarian analysis.
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Shawan Jabarin is the general director of Al-Haq. From 2005 to 2009, Jabarin was a member of the Board of Directors of Defense of Children International – Palestine.
Professor Ilan Pappe is the director of the European Center for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter. He received his D. Phil from the University of Oxford. Until 2007, Pappe taught at the university of Haifa, Israel from which he was expelled due to his ideological positions. He moved to Exeter where he teaches now at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies.
Pappe wrote 20 books to date, the most famous of them being The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine and On Palestine (jointly with Noam Chomsky). His most recent book is The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Israeli Occupation.
Dr Anne Irfan is Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender and Postcolonial Studies at University College London. She has published several award-winning articles in outlets including the Journal of Palestine Studies, Journal of Refugee Studies and Jerusalem Quarterly, as well as contributing to The Washington Post, The Nation and Al Jazeera. Anne is the author of Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System, out now with Columbia University Press.
Leila Farsakh is Associate Professor and Chair of political science at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is the author of “Palestinian Labor Migration to Israel: Labour, Land, and Occupation” and has published on questions related to the political economy of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Zaha Hassan is a human rights lawyer and a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her research focus is on Palestine-Israel peace, the use of international legal mechanisms by political movements, and U.S. foreign policy in the region. Previously, she was the coordinator and senior legal advisor to the Palestinian negotiating team during Palestine’s bid for UN membership, and was a member of the Palestinian delegation to Quartet-sponsored exploratory talks between 2011 and 2012.
She regularly participates in track II peace efforts and is a contributor to The Hill and Haaretz. Her commentaries have appeared in the New York Times, Salon, Al Jazeera English, CNN, and others.
Ali Abunimah is executive director of The Electronic Intifada, an independent publication focused on Palestine, and is the author of two books, “One Country” and “The Battle for Justice in Palestine.”
Ayah Ziyadeh is the advocacy director for Americans for Justice in Palestine Action and American Muslims for Palestine. She is a Palestinian-American human rights scholar, advocate, and writer who has a track record in organizing awareness of Palestine and other crucial human rights issues.
Ayah has over 7 years of political and grassroots advocacy and lobbying campaign experience. This experience consists of being a legislative staff, a lobbying intern working closely with the ACLU, and an organizer working with several different organizations and coalitions, providing her with extensive knowledge of all the spaces contributing to policy-making and advocacy.
Aside from her work, she has completed her master’s in International Human Rights at the Josef Korbel School of International Relations. Throughout her graduate experience, she specialized in Palestinian rights, resistance, and the dynamics of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. She has completed an abundance of research and policy work on the issue.
Josh Ruebner is Director of Government Relations with the Institute for Middle East Understanding, and an Adjunct Lecturer in Justice and Peace Studies at Georgetown University. He is currently finishing his PhD at the University of Exeter’s European Centre for Palestine Studies where his dissertation is entitled “A Tragedy of Catastrophic Proportions: The US and the Palestinian Nakba, 1947-1950”. Ruebner is author of Shattered Hopes: Obama’s Failure to Broker Israeli-Palestinian Peace and Israel: Democracy or Apartheid State? He is a former Analyst in Middle East Affairs at Congressional Research Service. Ruebner holds an MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a BA in Political Science and Near East Studies from the University of Michigan.
Hassan El-Tayyab is an author, songwriter, and legislative director for Middle East policy and advocacy organizer at Friends Committee on National Legislation.
Hassan leads FCNL’s work to end U.S. military involvement in the Saudi-led war on Yemen, advocate for Palestinian human rights, and advance diplomacy with Iran. Hassan was honored by Arab America Foundation as an awardee of its 2022 “40 under 40” initiative, for his policy work on Capitol Hill. Prior to joining FCNL, Hassan served as the co-director of the national advocacy group Just Foreign Policy, where he worked to reassert Congressional war authority and promote human rights in the Middle East and Latin America. He is frequently invited to guest lecture at colleges and universities around the United States on foreign affairs. His writings and commentaries have been featured in numerous national and international news outlets, including CNN, BBC World News, Politico, the Intercept, and more.
