Photo: Israel attacks Iran 12 June. IMEMC
1.00-2.30pm EST / 6.00-7.30pm (UK) / 8.00-9.30pm (Jerusalem)
At this critical time in the Middle East, layer upon layer of US/Israel-incited wars threaten the entire region with subservience to Washington, Tel Aviv and their allies, the repressive Arab regimes. They also threaten the Palestinians’ ability to continue struggling for their own national rights – indeed, for their very survival.
In this webinar, Mouin Rabbani, a leading Palestinian researcher, analyst and writer, and Abdel Takriti, whose research focuses on the history of revolutions and state-building in the modern Middle East, engage with ICAHD’s Jeff Halper in a wide-ranging discussion on where the region is headed. Two major developments demand our attention: the US/Israeli assault on Iran and the imminent prospect of Trump completing the Abraham Accords that normalize relations between much of the Arab world and a "Greater" Israel. But Mouin, Abdel and Jeff will also put into context many other significant developments as well, from the ongoing Gaza genocide, the military degrading of Hezbollah and the collapse of the Assad regime to the growing repressive hegemony of the Arab regimes, Israel, Turkey – and where Iran fits in. All this is set against the impact of Zionism's settler colonial project on the Palestinian people and the region as a whole.
Mouin Rabbani is a co-editor of Jadaliyya, a contributing editor of Middle East Report and the managing editor of the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development. He is also a fellow at Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN). Mouin has served as principal political affairs officer to the UN Special Envoy for Syria, head of the Middle East unit of the Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation, senior Middle East analyst with the International Crisis Group and a researcher with Al-Haq.
Mouin writes for a wide variety of publications including Third World Quarterly, The Journal of Palestine Studies, The Nation, Foreign Policy, and the London Review of Books, He edited (with Noura Erekat) Aborted State? The UN Initiative and New Palestinian Junctures
Dr. Abdel Razzaq Takriti is an Associate Professor in Modern Arab History at Rice University and the Chair of the Arab-American Educational Foundation for Arab Studies, having completed his doctorate at St Antony's College, Oxford. His research focuses on the history of revolutions, intellectual and political currents, and state-building in the modern Arab world as well as on global histories of empire and anti-colonialism.
Abdel is the author of Monsoon Revolution: Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman and the co-author (with Prof. Karma Nabulsi) of the digital humanities project The Palestinian Revolution. He also presents the marvelous series Thawra (Revolution), with Daniel Denvir of Jacobin Radio's The Dig, on the history of Arab revolutionary politics, with an emphasis on Palestine.
Prof Jeff Halper is an Israeli anthropologist, the Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and a founding member of the Palestinian-led One Democratic State Campaign (ODSC). Among his publications are War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification. (London: Pluto Press, 2015) and Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism and the Case for One Democratic State (London: Pluto Press, 2021).
In 2008, Jeff participated in the first (and successful) attempt of the Free Gaza Movement to break the Israeli siege by sailing into Gaza. He has served on the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, was a member of the international support committee of the Bertrand Russell Tribunal on Palestine and is currently a member of the International Gaza Tribunal.
Jeff has been nominated for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, together with Palestinian human rights defender Issa Amro, by the Norwegian Palestinian Solidarity Committee. This follows his 2006 nomination by the American Friends Service Committee, together with the Palestinian intellectual and activist Ghassan Andoni.