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Photo: Displaced Palestinians return to what is left of their homes in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, 28.01.15. Yousef Zaanoun/Activestills – 972


The Day After Gaza:

How Do We Address the Urgency of the Political Moment?

 

The conference will assess where we are in the struggle for Palestinian rights & freedom considering the genocide, starvation, ethnic cleansing and pacification of the Palestinian population across historic Palestine. Israel’s facts on the ground including settlements, Israeli-only roads, confiscation of land and natural resources, etc, though done in violation of international law, have been accepted by governments and thus “normalized”. Any plan to declare a Palestinian state that does not fulfil the requirements of statehood will be a move toward Palestinians living under a permanent apartheid regime.

 

Join Jeff Halper, ICAHD’s director from Jerusalem, and our special guests for:

  • Understanding about Israel’s settler colonial agenda
  • Palestinian voices on survival during a time of genocide
  • Political analysis about where governments are going
  • ICAHD’s resistance to ethnic cleansing as it stands with its Palestinian partners
  • ICAHD UK’s equipping of campaigners

Saturday, 1st November 2025

Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, 235 Shaftsbury Avenue, London WC2H 8EP

Doors open 09.45 – registration, refreshments, stalls, networking

Conference programme 10.30 – 16.45

Drinks provided – bring a packed lunch


Our speakers and themes:

 Core analysis

  • Jeff Halper – ICAHD’s Co-founder and Director, here from Jerusalem – Between pacification and normalizing Israeli apartheid - the four stages of settler colonialism
  • Dr Nadia Naser Najjab – Palestinian from Jerusalem, Senior Lecturer at Exeter University - Settler Colonialism as ‘Structure, Not Event’: Paths to Resistance

Mobilization in the face of normalization

  • Peter Frankental – Programme Director Economic Affairs, Amnesty International UK - The question of normalisation through an economic lens and the need for mobilization
  • Rev Dr Simon Woodman – Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church - Grassroots activism within religious communities when establishment leaders are silent on genocide
  • Bruno Sorrentino – Palio Films – award-winning filmmaker – the new feature-length documentary for the big screen (featuring ICAHD) and mobilization within the film industry
  • Prof Avi Shlaim – British Israeli historian, award-winning author – the newly launched ‘Britain Owes Palestine’ campaign

Plus, key voices from the Gaza Tribunal in Istanbul and what is next for ICAHD UK