Event Hosted by Palestine Justice Movement Sydney and supported by AFOPA and other Australian Palestine Solidarity groups
Colonisation and Resistance: Palestine, Israel and the Struggle for Liberation
FREE webinar
highlighting the current crisis in Gaza and Palestine as a whole
with a focus on aspects of colonisation, resistance, and the struggle for liberation
7:00pm Australian central Standard Time (Adelaide)
7:30 Australian Eastern Standard Time
Hamas's October 7 sudden and violent break-out of the Gaza siege, which has been installed for the past 17 years, is seen to be a watershed moment not only for the Palestinians in Gaza, but for the entire region if not the entire world!
In retaliation, and under the pretext of destroying Hamas, the state of Israel has initiated what the International Court of Justice (IJC) has described as a plausible act of genocide against Gazans which has thus far resulted in the killing of more than 37,000 Palestinians including more than 16,000 children, has left more than 85,000 injured, and totally destroyed all means of life and livelihood in the Gaza strip.
Important questions which have been consistently left out of the mainstream discourse, especially in the Australian media, include:
Where does Hamas fit within the Palestinian resistance movement against the Zionist settler colonial project?
What is the historical context and significance of Hamas’s October 7 offensive?
How has the current genocidal war on Gaza changed the prospect of a peaceful resolution in Palestine/Israel?
How has the genocide affected on both societies’ perception of their leadership?
To answer these questions and more, join us with Miko Peled, Professor Khaled Hroub and Sara Saleh in a wide-ranging discussion of the current crisis in Gaza and Palestine, its historic and international context; and the ongoing failure of international diplomacy to bring about a peaceful resolution to the decades-long Palestinian struggle for freedom.