The Quaker Meeting House, Victoria Street, Edinburgh EH1 2JL
10.30am - 3.30pm
Israel’s war on Gaza captured the world’s attention. It revealed how complicit Western nations are in allowing Israel’s genocide to continue without regard for international law. It also brought millions of people of all ages and backgrounds out onto the streets, and university students out of classes and into campus encampments. At last Palestine has become a global issue connecting many other struggles.
However, Palestinians and Palestine remain under threat. Even as we are focused on Gaza, we cannot lose sight of the bigger political picture: collusion among Israel, the US and Saudi Arabia to “normalize” Israel’s apartheid regime over all of historic Palestine in their larger geopolitical interests of ensuring Western hegemony over the Middle East in face of Iranian threats and Chinese inroads.
This ICAHD UK conference will evaluate the tragic and dramatic developments in Palestine/Israel over the past year. With the focus on the Big Picture, we ask what is our push-back? How are the Palestinians and their allies ratcheting up their struggle for Palestinian rights?
Central to the Conference will be ICAHD's release of its new reframing document putting the reality of Palestine in a settler colonial - apartheid context.
The conference will include some speakers who are not well-known to the wider public but whom are playing key leadership roles and who must be heard.
