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12:00pm CDT

From the River to The World

Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT

This panel explores Palestinian resistance as an exit from state-sanctioned repression, linking struggles in the ‘belly of the beast’ to global anti-imperialism. Speakers explore arms embargo efforts, labor organizing, criminalization under international law, and the evolving world order, foregrounding material conditions and lived experiences fueling resistance.

Speakers

Malak Afaneh

Malak Afaneh is a civil rights attorney at the Aboushi Law Firm and the Director of the Palestine Center for Public Policy. Before joining the Palestine Center for Public Policy, Afaneh received her J.D. from UC Berkeley Law and has a Bachelor of Arts in Politics and Middle Eastern... Read More →

Helyeh Doutaghi

Helyeh Doutaghi is scholar of international law and geopolitical economy. Her research explores the intersections of the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), encompassing Marxian and postcolonial critiques of law, sanctions, and international political economy. Dr... Read More →

Taylor Fox

Taylor Fox is an attorney, researcher, and longtime organizer with the movement for Palestinian liberation. She currently works on providing movement defense through the Right to Reject Zionism Coalition and the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network.

Rifqa Falaneh

Sponsors

The Palestine Center for Public Policy

Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
TBA

Palestine

3:00pm CDT

The Palestine Crisis in Liberal Institutions and the Trump Moment

Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT

TBA

Liberal institutions’ ability to respond to Trump's assault on civil society has been hampered by their own deep contradictions on Palestine. Jewish Currents reporters Alex Kane and Mari Cohen will discuss the political and cultural forces pushing these institutions to comply with a pro-Israel agenda and whether Trump’s moves have prompted any reflection.

Speakers