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